History for August 9

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Rod Laver 1938, David Steinberg 1942, Sam Elliott 1944 


Melanie Griffith 1957, Whitney Houston 1963, Gillian Anderson 1968 


1790 - The Columbia returned to Boston Harbor after a three-year voyage. It was the first ship to carry the American flag around the world. 


1842 - The U.S. and Canada signed the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, which solved a border dispute. 


1859 - The escalator was patented by Nathan Ames. 


1893 - "Gut Holz" was published. It was America's first bowling magazine. 


1910 - A.J. Fisher received a patent for the electric washing machine. 


1936 - Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics. He was the first American to win four medals in one Olympics. 


1944 - The Forest Service and Wartime Advertising Council created "Smokey the Bear." 


1945 - The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The bombing came three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. About 74,000 people were killed. Japan surrendered August 14. 


1974 - U.S. PresidentRichard Nixon formally resigned. Gerald R. Ford took his place, and became the 38th president of the U.S. 


2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announced he would support federal funding for limited medical research on embryonic stem cells.