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On This Day:
Friday May 9, 2014

This is the 129th day of the year, with 236 days remaining in 2014.

Fact of the Day: food minerals

Minerals play a vital role in blood formation, blood clotting, regulation of heart rate, nerve and muscle activity, bone formation, and digestion. Soluble mineral salts also help to control the composition of body fluids. Several minerals, known as macrominerals, are needed in large amounts. Minerals required in very small amounts (milligrams or micrograms per day) are called trace elements or microminerals.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Beatus of Lungern, St. Gerontius of Cervia, St. Beatus of Vendôme, and St. Pachomius.
Russia, Poland: Victory Day.
Channel Islands: Liberation Day.
Uzbekistan: Day of Memory and Honor.

Events

1502 - Christopher Columbus left Spain on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere.
1754 - The first cartoon was published, in Benjamin Franklin's "Pennsylvania Gazette."
1813 - General William Henry Harrison turned back a siege of Fort Meigs by Shawnee military leader Tecumseh and British general Henry A. Proctor.
1913 - The 17th amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, providing for the election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than selection by state legislatures, was ratified.
1914 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation for the celebration of Mother's Day.
1926 - Polar explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett announced that they were the first to fly over the North Pole; this claim has been debated, however.
1955 - West Germany was admitted as a member of NATO.
1960 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a birth-control pill.
1961 - Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton N. Minow condemned television programming as a "vast wasteland" in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters.
1988 - The new Australian Parliament House opens in Canberra.
1994 - South Africa's newly-elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president.
2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is selected as the successor of Pope John Paul II.
2006 - Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.

Births

1800 - John Brown, American abolitionist.
1845 - Carl Gustav Laval, Swedish scientist, engineer, inventor.
1873 - Howard Carter, British Egyptologist, archaeologist who discovered tomb of Tutankhamen.
1882 - Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist, shipbuilder, auto manufacturer.
1940 - James L. Brooks, American producer, writer, and film director.
1946 - Candice Bergen, American actress.
1949 - Billy Joel, American singer, pianist, and songwriter.
1977 - Dan Regan, trombone player for the Southern California-based ska punk band Reel Big Fish.

Deaths

1903 - Paul Gauguin (born Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin) was a leading Post-Impressionist artist.
1914 - C. W. Post, an American breakfast cereal and foods manufacturer, and a pioneer in the prepared-food industry.
1978 - Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, found shot in the back of a car after being kidnapped two months earlier.
2004 - Akhmad Kadyrov, President of the Chechen Republic.
2004 - Alan King (born Irwin Alan Kniberg), American comic.

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