History of 9 August
1910 – A.J. Fisher received a patent for the electric washing machine.
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 in Britain. He was not released until 1944.
1942 – CBS radio debuted “Our Secret Weapon.”
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 on August 14.
1945 – The first network television broadcast occurred in Washington, DC. The program announced the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan.
1956 – The first statewide, state-supported educational television network went on the air in Alabama.
1965 – Singapore proclaimed its independence from the Malaysian Federation.
1973 – The U.S. Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair filed suit against President Richard Nixon.
1974 – U.S. PresidentRichard Nixon formally resigned. Gerald R. Ford took his place and became the 38th president of the U.S.
1975 – The New Orleans Superdome as officially opened when the Saints played the Houston Oilers in exhibition football. The new Superdome cost $163 million to build.
1981 – Major league baseball teams resumed play at the conclusion of the first mid-season players’ strike.
1984 – Daley Thompson, of Britain, won his second successive Olympic decathlon.
1985 – Arthur J. Walker, a retired Navy officer, was found guilty of seven counts of spying for the Soviet Union.
1988 – Wayne Gretzky (Edmonton Oilers) was traded. The trade was at Gretzky’s request. He was sent to the Los Angeles Kings.
1996 – Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as president of Russia for the second time.
1999 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin and his entire cabinet for the fourth time in 17 months.
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announced he would support federal funding for limited medical research on embryonic stem cells.
2004 – Donald Duck received the 2,257th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2004 – Trump Hotel and Casino Resorts announced plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists were arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests were made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation.
2013 – Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30.
2014 – Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city.
Celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – Jarvis Hayes, American basketball player
- 1981 – Li Jiawei, Singaporean table tennis player
- 1982 – Joel Anthony, American basketball player
- 1982 – Tyson Gay, American sprinter
- 1982 – Yekaterina Samutsevich, Russian singer and activist
- 1982 – Kanstantsin Sivtsov, Belorussian cyclist
- 1983 – Shane O’Brien, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1983 – Alicja Smietana, Polish-English violinist
- 1984 – Paul Gallagher, Scottish footballer
- 1985 – Luca Filippi, Italian race car driver
- 1985 – Filipe Luís, Brazilian footballer
- 1985 – Anna Kendrick, American actress and singer
- 1985 – Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
- 1985 – JaMarcus Russell, American football player
- 1985 – Chandler Williams, American football player (d. 2013)
- 1986 – Michael Lerchl, German footballer
- 1986 – Daniel Preussner, German rugby player
- 1986 – Tyler Smith, American singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1987 – Marek Niit, Estonian sprinter
- 1988 – Anthony Castonzo, American football player
- 1988 – Willian, Brazilian footballer
- 1988 – Vasilios Koutsianikoulis, Greek footballer
- 1989 – Jason Heyward, American baseball player
- 1989 – Stefano Okaka, Italian footballer
- 1989 – Kento Ono, Japanese actor, and model
- 1990 – Ishak Dogan, Turkish footballer
- 1990 – Stuart McInally, Scottish rugby player
- 1990 – Brice Roger, French skier
- 1990 – Sarah McBride, American LGBT Activist
- 1991 – Alice Barlow, English actress
- 1991 – Alexa Bliss, American bodybuilder, and wrestler
- 1994 – Kelli Hubly, American soccer player
- 1995 – Eli Apple, American football player
- 1996 – Sanya Lopez, Filipino actress, and model
- 1999 – Deniss Vasiļjevs, Latvian figure skater