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"Mother's Day" is the second episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series Rugrats, first broadcast on May 6, 1997, on Nickelodeon. In this Mother's Day special, Tommy Pickles and Phil and Lil Deville attempt to find the perfect mother for Chuckie Finster, who is being raised by his father Chas. They discover that Chuckie's mother, voiced by Kim Cattrall (pictured), died of a terminal illness. Norton Virgien and Toni Vian directed the episode. "Mother's Day" was praised by critics for its storyline and its representation of breastfeeding, and has been the subject of several retrospective reviews for its treatment of the death of a parent. It won a CableACE Award and was nominated for the Humanitas Prize in the Children's Animation Category. Rugrats received a nomination for the 1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program after Nickelodeon submitted "Mother's Day" for consideration. (Full article...)

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Painting of the Punic building by Jean-Pierre Houël, 1770s

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An elevated section of the Mexico City Metro collapses, killing at least 26 people and injuring more than 70 others.
Mark Selby (pictured) wins the World Snooker Championship, defeating Shaun Murphy in the final.
Colombian president Iván Duque Márquez withdraws a proposed tax reform after nationwide protests leave at least 19 people dead.
In horse racing, Medina Spirit wins the Kentucky Derby, earning trainer Bob Baffert a record seventh victory in the race.

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May 9: Europe Day / Schuman Day in the European Union; Victory Day in various Eastern European countries; Liberation Day in the Channel Islands (1945)

The Big Picture, depicting the opening of the first Australian Parliament

1877 – An earthquake struck northern Chile, leading to the death of 2,385 people, mostly victims of the ensuing tsunami, as far away as Hawaii and Fiji.
1901 – The first Parliament of Australia opened (depicted) in the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, exactly 26 years before it moved to Canberra's Provisional Parliament House, and exactly 87 years before it moved into the Parliament House in Canberra.
1961 – In a speech to U.S. broadcasters, FCC chairman Newton Minow described commercial television programming as "a vast wasteland".
2001 – Police at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra, Ghana, fired tear gas to quell unrest at a football match, leading to a stampede that killed 126 people.

Gaspard Monge (b. 1746)
Francis Hopkinson (d. 1791)
Nuala O'Faolain (d. 2008)

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The proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) is endemic to the island of Borneo, where it is found predominantly in coastal areas, near rivers and in swamp forests. It is perhaps the most aquatic of the primates and is a fairly good swimmer, capable of swimming underwater; apart from this, it is largely arboreal. This photograph is a composite of three images and shows a proboscis monkey jumping between trees in Labuk Bay in the Malaysian state of Sabah.

Photograph credit: Charles James Sharp

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