What happened on 9 May?

7 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1950 Schuman Declaration Robert Schuman proposes pooling French and German coal and steel — the seed of the EU.
2. 1960 Contraceptive pill approved The US FDA approves Enovid as an oral contraceptive, catalysing the sexual revolution and women's mass entry into the workforce.
3. 1540 Born: Maharana Pratap Rajput king of Mewar who resisted Akbar's Mughal expansion.
4. 1876 Otto's four-stroke engine Nicolaus Otto patents the four-stroke internal combustion engine; foundation of the automobile.
5. 1958 Vertigo released Hitchcock's color-saturated film of obsession in San Francisco.
6. 1911 First television broadcast (Rosing) Boris Rosing in St Petersburg transmits coarse geometric shapes using a Nipkow disc scanner and a cathode-ray tube receiver — the first transmission of a moving image by electronic
7. 1955 Germany joins NATO West Germany admitted to NATO; rearmament under Allied supervision; Bundeswehr created.