On this day in history - Today, May, 9

Today in History

• 1960 The first birth control pill is approved

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it would add birth control as a new indication

• 1969 Carlos Lamarca begins his fight against Brazil's military dictatorship

  Lamarca was a member of the communist organization Vanguardia Popular Revolucionária (VPR) and is we

• 1979 Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed

  An Islamic revolutionary tribunal had convicted him of “contacts with Israel and Zionism” and “frien

• 1997 Pete Peterson becomes the first U.S. ambassador to visit Vietnam after the end of the war

  Peterson, a Vietnam veteran, devoted himself to promoting reconciliation between the two countries.

• 2012 The brand-new Sukhoi Superjet 100 plane crashes

  The regional jet was the first airliner produced in Russia since the end of the USSR in 1991. The do