May 9 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1502, Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain on his fourth and final voyage to the New World. In 1926, U.S. Navy Cmdr. Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett were the first to fly over the North Pole. In 1961, in a speech to TV executives at the National Association of Broadcasters convention, new Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow referred to television as " a vast wasteland ." In 1963, civil rights demonstrators and law enforcement