Today is Tuesday, May 9th, the 129th day of the year. There are 236
days remaining until the end of the year.
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES Date Your Mate Month,
Foster Care Month, National Barbecue Month, National Bike
Month, National Blood Pressure Month, National Hamburger
Month, National Photograph Month, National Recommitment
Month, National Salad Month, Older Americans Month, National
Water Safety Month, National Teacher Appreciation Week, National
Nurses Appreciation Week, Lost Sock Memorial Day!
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Ralph Boston, 84, long jumper
Calvin Murphy, 75, basketball player/announcer
Tony Gwynn, 63, baseball player
Ghostface Killah, 53, rapper
Doug Christie, 53, basketball player
Tamia, 48, singer
Rosario Dawson, 44, actress
Prince Fielder, 39, baseball player
HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS
John Brown, 223, abolitionist (d. 1859)
Dave Prater, 86, singer (Sam & Dave) (d. 1988)
DEATHS
Canada Lee, 1952, actor (b. 1907)
Lena Horne, 2010, singer/actress (b. 1917)
Malcolm Shabazz, 2013, grandson of Malcolm X (b. 1984)
ON THIS DATE IN…
1862 – Slaves in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina are freed.
1899 – Black inventor, John Albert Burr patents lawn mower.
1914 – U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson proclaims Mother’s Day.
1961 – The Food and Drug Administration approves first birth control
pills.
1966 – A.F. Brimmer becomes the 1st Black member of the Federal
Reserve Board.
1978 – “Aint Misbehavin” opens at the Longacre Theatre in New York
City for 1604 performances.
1989 – Vice Pres. Dan Quayle says in an United Negro College Fund
speech: “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind” instead of “a mind is
a terrible thing to waste”.
1990 – New York Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for
making a racial slur.
HOROSCOPE
Your determination will always give you the opportunity for success, so your greatest challenge may be finding the career you enjoy the most. With gifts of communication and understanding, you may do well in teaching, sales or lecturing. Similarly, your intellectual interests could lead you into higher education and philosophy. Your charisma could appeal to audiences as a writer or journalism, which was the case for Mike Wallace, who was also born on May 8th. If you are drawn to the world of entertainment, the exciting, fast paced world of television, media or film may be a good fit, not unlike Rosario Dawson, another of your celebrity birthday twins.