In this episode…
- A message from the future
- A message from the past
- and a message to put on your do not call list
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- Happy Birthday to:
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On This Day In History for May 9, 2012
- 1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
- 1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody‘s Wild West Show opens in London.
- 1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
- 1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd’s diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
- 1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle‘s Enovid, making Enovid the world’s first approved oral contraceptive pill.
Happy Birthday goes out on this day to:
- 1837 – Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895)
- 1874 – Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)
- 1927 – Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- 1931 – Vance Brand, American astronaut
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for May 9, 2012
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