Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with May 9.

Events

1960 – U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Enovid-10 as the world’s first commercially produced oral contraceptive

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Births

1822 – William Cumming (1822-1855), English ophthalmic surgeon; pivotal work in the early development of the ophthalmoscope

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Deaths

1926 – Jacques Rodolphe Edmond Landolt (1846-1926), Swiss-born ophthalmologist; introduced the Landolt C (or Landolt ring) as a universal optotype (1899), and Landolt Bodies (1871)

2000 – Leslie Zieve (1915-2000), American hepatologist; described Zieve Syndrome (1958)

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Further reading

• The pill. National Museum of Australia