Today in History: May 9

Today is Monday, May 9, the 130th day of 2016. There are 236 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On May 9, 1961, in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton N. Minow decried the majority of television programming as a “vast wasteland.”
On this date:
In 1754, a political cartoon in Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette depicted a snake cut into eight pieces, each section representing a part