Friday 9 May 2008

Happy Birthday, Enovid-10!

On this day in 1960, the FDA approved Enovid-10, the first commercially-produced oral contraceptive, for general use. The pill, produced by Searle, was yet another earth-shakingly-cool thing to come out of Chicago in the last 50 years.

David Braverman, Friday 9 May 2008 12:24:45 UTC
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