History for August 9

History for August 9 - On-This-Day.com
Jean Piaget 1896, Rod Laver 1938, Sam Elliott 1944


Melanie Griffith 1957, Whitney Houston 1963, Gillian Anderson 1968


1854 - "Walden" was published by Henry David Thoreau.


1930 - Betty Boop had her beginning in "Dizzy Dishes" created by Max Fleischer.


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


1942 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested Britain. He was not released until 1944.


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. President Richard 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.