1935<\/strong> – U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, “The Kingfish” of Louisiana politics, was shot and mortally wounded. He died two days later.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – In Washington, DC, a bus equipped with a two-way radio was put into service for the first time.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – Bess Myerson of New York was crowned Miss America. She was the first Jewish contestant to win the title.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – A peace treaty with Japan was signed by 48 other nations in San Francisco, CA.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, was dedicated by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The facility had been activated in July earlier that year.<\/p>\n 1966<\/strong> – NBC-TV aired the first episode of “Star Trek” entitled “The Man Trap”. The show was canceled on September 2, 1969.<\/p>\n 1971<\/strong> – In Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was inaugurated. The opening featured the premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass.”<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – Hank Aaron hit his 709th home run.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – U.S. President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former U.S. President Nixon.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – In Boston, MA, public schools began their court-ordered citywide busing program amid scattered incidents of violence.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Herschel Walker made his start in the National Football League (NFL) after leaving the New Jersey Generals of the USFL.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – America Online acquired CompuServe.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals) hit his 62nd home run of the season. He had beaten a record that had stood for 37 years by Roger Maris. McGwire would eventually reach 70 home runs on September 27.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Russia’s Mission Control switched off the Mir space station’s central computer and other systems to save energy during a planned six months of unmanned flights.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> \u2013 NASA’s unmanned spacecraft Genesis<\/i> crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.<\/p>\n 2005<\/strong> \u2013 Two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft from EMERCOM land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong> – British researchers announced that evidence of a larger version of Stonehenge had been located about 2 miles from the Stonehenge location. There were 90 buried stones that had been found by ground-penetrating radar.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong> \u2013 NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample return mission. The probe will visit 101955 Bennu and is expected to return with samples in 2023.<\/p>\n 2019<\/strong> \u2013 Brigid Kosgei breaks the women’s half marathon world record in a time of 1:04.28 at the 2019 Great North Run.<\/sup><\/p>\n History of 8 September 1935 – U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, “The Kingfish” of Louisiana politics, was shot and mortally wounded. He died two days later. 1945 – In Washington, DC, a bus equipped with a two-way radio was put into service for the first time. 1945 – Bess Myerson of New York was crowned Miss America. 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