Wednesday’s History Lesson: May 9th is the 129th day of the year. There are 236 days remaining until the end of the year

Today is Bike To School Day, Donate a Day’s Wages to Charity Day, Lost Sock Memorial Day, National Butterscotch Brownie Day, National Moscato Day, National Receptionists’ Day, National Root Canal Appreciation Day, National School Nurse Day, National Third Shift Workers Day and Tear the Tags Off the Mattress Day

— On this date in 1899, the lawn mower was invented

— On this date in 1914, Mother’s Day became a public holiday

— On this date in 1950, L. Ron Hubbard published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health

— On this date in 1960, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of the birth control pill

— On this date in 1962, The Beatles inked their first recording contract

— On this date in 1967, Muhammad Ali was indicted for refusing to be inducted into the Army

— On this date in 1987, Tom Cruise and Mimi Rogers were married

— On this date in 1990, Sinead O’Connor refused to appear on “Saturday Night Live” after Andrew Dice Clay was named as host.

— On this date in 1991, Edward Kennedy’s nephew, William Kennedy Smith, was charged with rape

— On this date in 1994, South Africa’s newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country’s first black president

— On this date in 2005, Kenny Chesney married Renee Zellweger in the Caribbean.

— On this date in 2006, One day after being booted from American Idol, the rock band Fuel offered Chris Daughtry a job as their lead singer. He declined and started his own band.

— On this date in 2006, Playgirl offered Idol star Ace Young $100,000 to pose naked. He turned them down because the morals clause in his American Idol contract forbid him from doing any such layouts like that.

— On this date in 2010, Lena Horne died

— On this date in 2011, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver separated

— On this date in 2012, Vidal Sassoon died

— On this date in 2012, President Barack Obama declared his support for same-sex marriage.

— On this date in 2013, Manti Te’o’s fake girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, made Maxim magazine’s Hot 100 list at #69. Maxim published a picture of an invisible woman in a black bikini