{"id":1449,"date":"2025-05-09T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clarkmedianetwork.com\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2025-05-07T01:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T06:31:10","slug":"cmn-almanac-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/clarkmedianetwork.com\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"CMN Almanac"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is Friday, May 9th<\/strong>, the 129th day of the year.\u00a0 There are 236<\/p>\n

days remaining until the end of the year.<\/p>\n

\"Tamia\"<\/a>
Tamia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES<\/strong>\u00a0 Date Your Mate Month,<\/p>\n

Foster Care Month, National Barbecue Month, National Bike<\/p>\n

Month, National Blood Pressure Month, National Hamburger<\/p>\n

Month,\u00a0 National Photograph Month, National Recommitment<\/p>\n

Month, National Salad Month, Older Americans Month, National<\/p>\n

Water Safety Month, National Teacher Appreciation Week, National<\/p>\n

Nurses Appreciation Week, Lost Sock Memorial Day!<\/p>\n

\"Rosario<\/a>
Rosario Dawson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ralph Boston, 86, long jumper<\/p>\n

Calvin Murphy, 77, basketball player\/announcer<\/p>\n

Tony Gwynn, 65, baseball player<\/p>\n

Ghostface Killah, 55, rapper<\/p>\n

Doug Christie, 55, basketball player<\/p>\n

Tamia, 50, singer<\/p>\n

\"Dave<\/a>
Dave Prater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rosario Dawson, 46, actress<\/p>\n

Prince Fielder, 41, baseball player<\/p>\n

HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Brown, 225, abolitionist (d. 1859)<\/p>\n

Dave Prater, 88, singer (Sam & Dave) (d. 1988)<\/p>\n

\"Canada<\/a>
Canada Lee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DEATHS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canada Lee, 1952, actor (b. 1907)<\/p>\n

Lena Horne, 2010, singer\/actress (b. 1917)<\/p>\n

Malcolm Shabazz, 2013, grandson of Malcolm X\u00a0 (b. 1984)<\/p>\n

ON THIS DATE IN…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"John<\/a>
John Albert Burr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1862\u00a0<\/strong>– Slaves in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina are freed.<\/p>\n

1899\u00a0<\/strong>– Black inventor, John Albert Burr patents lawn mower.<\/p>\n

1914\u00a0<\/strong>– U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson proclaims Mother’s Day.<\/p>\n

1961\u00a0<\/strong>– The Food and Drug Administration approves first birth control<\/p>\n

pills.<\/p>\n

1966\u00a0<\/strong>– A.F. Brimmer becomes the 1st Black member of the Federal<\/p>\n

\"A.F.<\/a>
A.F. Brimmer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Reserve Board.<\/p>\n

1978\u00a0<\/strong>– “Aint Misbehavin” opens at the Longacre Theatre in New York<\/p>\n

City for 1604 performances.<\/p>\n

1989\u00a0<\/strong>– Vice Pres. Dan Quayle says in an United Negro College Fund<\/p>\n

speech:\u00a0 “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind” instead of “a mind is<\/p>\n

a terrible thing to waste”.<\/p>\n

1990\u00a0<\/strong>– New York Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for<\/p>\n

making a racial slur.<\/p>\n

HOROSCOPE<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Today is Friday, May 9th, the 129th day of the year.\u00a0 There are 236 days remaining until the end of the year. HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES\u00a0 Date Your Mate Month, Foster Care Month, National Barbecue Month, National Bike Month, National Blood Pressure Month, National Hamburger Month,\u00a0 National Photograph Month, National Recommitment Month, National Salad Month, Older …<\/p>\n

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