| May 9th 1946 | | 1st variety show on TV "NBC's Hour Glass," premieres
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| May 9th 1946 | | 1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premieres
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| May 9th 1949 | | Britain's 1st launderette opens in Queensway London
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| May 9th 1949 | | Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco
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| May 9th 1950 | | French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS
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| May 9th 1950 | | Norman Dello Joco's premieres in Bronxville
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| May 9th 1951 | | Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River
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| May 9th 1955 | | German Federal Republic joins NATO
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| May 9th 1958 | | Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship
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| May 9th 1959 | | Dorothy Rigney, husband John, & Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox
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| May 9th 1960 | | Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
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| May 9th 1960 | | US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
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| May 9th 1960 | | US send U-2 over USSR
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| May 9th 1961 | | Balt Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs Minn Twins
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| May 9th 1961 | | FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland"
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