2012 Event A U.S. gene sequencing company, Illumina, adopts a poison pill strategy, fighting against a hostile big by Roche Holding 1997 Event Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA 1996 Event 38th Grammy Awards: Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morisette wins 1974 Birthday Alanis Nadine Morisette, vocalist, Jagged Little Pill 1963 Death Dinah Washington, singer, dies of sleeping pill overdose at 39 1960 Event U.S. is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
