Could 9, FDA approves first contraception capsule

At the moment is Friday, Could 9, the 129th day of 2025. There are 236 days left within the 12 months.

At the moment in historical past:

On Could 9, 1960, the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration conditionally accredited Enovid to be used as the primary oral contraceptive capsule.

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In 1754, the well-known political cartoon “Be part of or Die” was first printed by Benjamin Franklin within the Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper.

In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson, performing on a joint congressional decision, signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in Could as Mom’s Day.

In 1951, the U.S. carried out its first thermonuclear experiment as a part of Operation Greenhouse by detonating a 225-kiloton machine (nicknamed “George”) on Enewetak Atoll within the Pacific Ocean.

In 1974, the Home Judiciary Committee opened public hearings on whether or not to advocate the impeachment of President Richard Nixon. (The committee finally adopted three articles of impeachment in opposition to the president, who resigned earlier than the total Home took up any of them.)

In 1980, 35 individuals had been killed when a freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, inflicting a 1,300-foot part of the southbound span to break down.

In 2019, Pope Francis issued a groundbreaking new church legislation requiring all Catholic clergymen and nuns to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-ups by their superiors to church authorities.

In 2023, a jury discovered Donald Trump chargeable for sexually abusing recommendation columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $5 million in damages.