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What happened in history on this day: August 9?
On August 9 in ...
- 1831 - First US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, New York).
- 1842 - US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
- 1848 - Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with the Free Soil Party, nominating Martin Van Buren for president.
- 1862 - Prelude to second Manassas, CSA General Thomas Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mount, however CSA General Charles S Winder is killed.
- 1876 - Gold is discovered in the Black Hills of Dakota Territory of the USA.
- 1892 - The United States Postal Service mail train of $20 million in god coins from San Francisco arrives safely in New York City, after a trip of 4 days, 13 hours, and 16 minutes.
- 1930 - Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes.
- 1934 - US President Franklin Roosevelt nationalizes silver.
- 1945 - (1102 hours) An American plane drops a plutonium-atomic bomb over the Urakami suburb of Nagasaki, Japan, off-target by three miles. Estimated dead are 38-70,000.
- 1956 - Alabama begins the first US state-wide, state-supported educational TV network.
- 1960 - Race riot in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
- 1969 - Death of Sharon Tate, actress, killed by Charles Manson's gang.
- 1970 - Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes.
- 1972 - Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct the Space Shuttle.
- 1974 - US President Richard Nixon resigns presidency, Vice President Gerald Ford becomes 38th president.
- 1976 - Death of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff in West Berlin, Germany; Expressionist/Cubist artist of the group, Die Brücke.
- 1979 - Raymond Washington, co-founder of the Crips today one of the largest, most gang in the United States, is killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles.
- 1988 - Just one day after 8/8/88 New York lottery's daily number is 888.
- 1992 - Midway Amusement Games releases the Mortal Kombat video game to arcades in the US.
- 1995 - Shares of Netscape Communications are first made available to the public on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Before trading, shares are priced at US$28. The stock opens at US$71, reaching a high of US$74.75. The market value of the company becomes US$2.2 billion. This is the best opening day for a stock in Wall Street history for an issue of its size.
- 2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
- 2004 - Disney's Donald Duck cartoon character receives a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
- 2007 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average loses 387.18 points, its largest single-day drop since February 27.
- 2007 - Large French bank B.N.P. Paribas suspends withdrawals from three of its mutual funds, due to investments in American subprime securities.
Births on August 9
- 1901 - Birth of Charles Farrell in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Vern - My Little Margie).
- 1911 - Birth of Robert McCormick in Danville, Kentucky, USA; NBC newscaster (Current Opinion).
- 1938 - Birth of Dick Anthony Williams in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Our Family Honor).
- 1940 - Birth of Beverlee McKinsey in Oklahoma, USA; actress (Another World, Guiding Light).
- 1944 - Birth of Sam Elliot in California, USA; actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty).
- 1955 - Birth of Doug Williams in Louisana, USA; NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Washington Redskins).
- 1957 - Birth of Melanie Griffith in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Something Wild, Working Girl).
- 1959 - Birth of Kurtis Blow in New York City, New York, USA; rapper (Krushgroove - "The Breaks").
- 1963 - Birth of Lonnie Quinn in Cheshire Connecticut, USA; actor (Will Cooley - All My Children).
- 1963 - Birth of Whitney Houston in Newark, New Jersey, USA; singer ("One Moment in Time").
- 1965 - Birth of Kyle Kyle in Kensington, Pennsylvania, USA; rock bassist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals).
- 1966 - Birth of Pat Petersen in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Michael - Knots Landing).
- 1972 - Birth of Elizabeth Vassey in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; actress (Emily Martin - All My Children).
Deaths on August 9
- 1862 - Prelude to second Manassas, CSA General Thomas Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mount, however CSA General Charles S Winder is killed.
- 1969 - George P Marshall, president of Washington Redskins, dies at age 72.
- 1969 - Death of Sharon Tate, actress, killed by Charles Manson's gang.
- 1979 - Raymond Washington, co-founder of the Crips today one of the largest, most gang in the United States, is killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles.
- 1995 - Death of Jerry Garcia at age 53 of diabetes complications; musician/songwriter (Grateful Dead, Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, Warlocks).
- 2007 - Death of Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer and photojournalist (born 1922).
- 2008 - American actor/comedian Bernie Mac (The Bernie Mac Show, Ocean's Eleven, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Transformers) dies in a Chicago hospital from complications due to pneumonia, at age 50.
- 2015 - Death of John Henry Holland, American computer scientist (born 1929).
- 2023 - Death of Robbie Robertson at age 80 in Los Angeles, California; guitarist, lyricist (The Band group, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" song, "Up on Cripple Creek" song).
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