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Today in History ~ August 9
Events480 B.C. - After one of history's most famous battles, Persian forces finally overran the heavily outnumbered Spartan defenders of the narrow pass at Thermopylae in Greece.
0378 - Battle of Adrianople Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army [H]
1378 - Cardinals declare pope Urbanus VI lawless (anti-Christian/devil)
1638 - Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in the Bronx
1673 - Dutch recapture NY from English; regained by English in 1674
1757 - English Ft William Henry NY surrenders to French & Indian troops
1778 - Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales Bering straits
1790 - The Columbia returned to Boston Harbor after a three-year voyage, becoming the first ship to carry the American flag around the world.
1803 - 1st horses arrive in Hawaii.
1829 - "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service
1830 - Louis-Philippe formally accepts crown of France following abdication of Charles X last brother of guillotined Louis XVI Louis-Philippe was the son of the opportunistic Duke d'Orleans first cousin to the late king who renounced his royal heritage and called himself plain Phillipe Egalite. He voted for his cousin's death in 1793 but followed him to the guillotine in 1794.
1831 - 1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady NY)
1842 - The United States and Canada resolved a border dispute by signing the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
1848 - Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominating Martin Van Buren for president at its convention in Buffalo, N.Y.
1854 - Henry David Thoreau published "Walden," which described his experiences while living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts.
1859 - Elevator patented
1862 - Battle of Cedar Mountain VA (Slaughter Mountain Southwest Mountain) [H]
1862 - Hectpr Berlioz' opera "Beatrice et Benedict," premieres in Baden-Baden
1862 - Prelude to 2nd Manassas Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mt however Gen Charles S Winder is killed
1892 - Thomas Edison received a patent for the two-way telegraph which allowed operators to send messages simultaneously over one wire.
1902 - Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria
1905 - Mistaking her husband for a burglar Ty Cobb's mother kills him
1910 - Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine
1930 - A forerunner of the cartoon character Betty Boop made her debut in Max Fleischer's animated short "Dizzy Dishes."
1936 - Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin Olympics. Hitler had promoted the Summer Olympics as a way to showcase Aryan dominance did not take kindly to the many African-American track wins and showed his lack of hospitality by leaving the stadium rather than congratulate the American stars. [H]
1942 - Mahatma Gandhi & 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress
1943 - Bertolt Brecht's "Galileo," premieres in Zurich
1944 - Smokey Bear debuts as spokesman for fire prevention
1945 - Three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, US drops 2nd atomic bomb code named "Fat Man" on Nagasaki by Bock's Car a U.S. B-29 bomber; the death toll was some where around 70 000 people; Truman explained that the atomic bomb had been used to save the lives of Americans that would be lost in an invasion of Japan and would continue to be used until Japan accepted the Allies' terms
1960 - Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
1965 - Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)
1967 - Marines launch Operation Cochise
1969 - Actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found brutally murdered in Tate's Los Angeles home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his disciples were later convicted of the crime. [H]
1974 - At noon in accordance with his statement of resignation the previous evening Richard M. Nixon officially ended his term as the thirty-seventh president of the United States. VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres
1988 - The NY daily lottery number was 888
1988 - President Reagan nominated Lauro Cavazos to be secretary of education; Cavazos became the first Hispanic to serve in the Cabinet.
1991 - In South Africa, hundreds of police battled neo-Nazis as pro-apartheid extremists tried to stop a speech by President F.W. de Klerk.
1992 - Closing ceremonies were held for the Barcelona Summer Olympics, the largest Summer Olympic Games in history, with the Unified Team of former Soviet republics winning 112 medals and the United States winning 108. 1996 - A weary-looking Boris Yeltsin was sworn into his second term as president of Russia.
1996 - Bob Dole telephoned Jack Kemp to ask him to be his running mate; Kemp accepted.
1997 - Security guard Abner Louima assaulted and sodomized by NYC police
2000 - Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. announced it was recalling 6.5 million tires that had been implicated in hundreds of accidents and at least 46 deaths.
2001 - President Bush approved federal funding only for existing lines of embryonic stem cells.
Birthdays Today
1593 - Izaak Walton England biographer/fisherman/writer (Compleat Angler)
1631 - John Dryden English poet/playwright (Heroic Stanzas)
1686 - Benedetto Marcello Venice It composer (Lettera Famigliare)
1819 - William Thomas Green Morton dentist used ether
1875 - Albert William Ketelbey Aston England composer (In a Monastery Garden)
1896 - Leonide Massine choreographer (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1914-20)
1899 - Pamela Lyndon Travers writer (Mary Poppins)
1901 - Charles Farrell (actor: My Little Margie; developer: w/Ralph Bellamy: Palm Springs Racquet Club)
1905 - Zino (Rene) Francescatti (violinist)
1919 - Ralph Houk (baseball: manager: Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers NY Yankees manager, catcher)
1925 - Len Sutton (auto racing)
1927 - Robert Shaw (actor: Battle of the Bulge, Black Sunday, The Deep, Force 10 from Navarone, From Russia with Love, A Man for All Seasons, Jaws)
1928 - Bob Cousy (Basketball Hall of Famer: Boston Celtics: NBA MVP [1957]; autobiography: The Killer Instinct; actor: Blue Chips)
1930 - Betty Boop
1934 - Merle Kilgore (songwriter: Ring of Fire, More and More, Johnny Reb, Wolverton Mountain, Dear Mama, Love Has Made You Beautiful, Fast Talking Louisiana Man)
1936 - Julian Javier (baseball)
1938 - Rod Laver (tennis champion: Australian Open [[1960, 62, 69], French Open [1962, 69], Wimbledon [1961, 62, 68, 69], U.S. Open [1962, 69])
1939 - Billy Henderson (singer: group: Spinners: Could It be I'm Falling in Love, One of a Kind [Love Affair], The Rubberband Man, They Just Can't Stop It [Games People Play])
1939 - Claude Osteen (baseball: LA Dodgers pitcher)
1942 - David Steinberg (Emmy Award-winning comic writer: The 63rd & 64th Annual Academy Awards [1990-91, 1991-92]; TV host: The Music Scene; comedian: The David Steinberg Show, Second City)
1942 - Tommy Lee Agee (baseball: Rookie of the Year: Chicago White Sox outfielder [1966];LA Dodgers)
1944 - Sam Elliott (actor: Gettysburg Lonesome Dove Mask Tombstone Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid TVs Mission Impossible)
1945 - Ken Norton (Boxing Hall of Famer: heavyweight boxing champ [1978])
1946 - Jim Kiick (football: Miami Dolphins running back: Super Bowl VI, VII, VIII)
1949 - Ted Simmons (baseball)
1951 - Steve Swisher (baseball)
1952 - John Cappelletti (football: Penn State: Heisman Trophy Winner [1973]; LA Rams, San Diego Chargers)
1957 - Melanie Griffith (actress: Working Girl Night Moves Smile A Stranger Among Us Born Yesterday; actress Tippi Hedren's daughter)
1958 - Amanda Berse (actress: Married......with Children)
1963 - Whitney Houston (Grammy Award-winning singer: I Will Always Love You; Greatest Love of All, You Give Good Love, Saving All My Love You; actress: The Bodyguard)
1967 - Deion Sanders (football: Atlanta Falcons; baseball: Atlanta Braves; the first athlete to star in a World Series [1992] and a Super Bowl [XXIX])
Famous deaths
0117 - Marcus Ulpius Trajanus (Trajan), emperor of Rome (98-117)
1672 - Jose Ximenez, composer, dies at 70
1904 - Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum), dies at 59
1919 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (Pagliacci), dies at 62
1944 - Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal, hanged at 62
1962 - Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85
1967 - Jaromir Weinberger, Czech/US composer (Czech Rhapsody), dies
1967 - Joe Orton, English actor/playwright (What the Butler Saw, Loot), murdered (bludgeoned with a hammer) while he slept by his male lover, at 34
1969 - Abigail Folger, US, coffee magnate (Folger's), murdered in the Manson marathon [H]
1969 - Sharon Tate, actress (Valley of Dolls), killed by Manson's gang at 26 [H]
1969 - Voyteck Freykowski, US director, murdered by Manson's gang [H]
1975 - Dimitri D Shostakovitch, composer (Sun Over Motherland), dies at 68
1978 - James G Cozzens, US writer (Guard of Honor, Pulitzer), dies at 74
1993 - Mohamed M Tabet, commissar of Casablanca, raped 518, executed at 54
1995 - Jerry Garcia, lead singer of the Grateful Dead, died in San Francisco of a heart attack at age 53.
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