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August 9
1854 - Henry David Thoreau's Walden, recounting his experiment in solitary life on the shores of Massachusetts' Walden Pond, was published.
1902 - Britain's Edward VII was crowned king following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
1910 - The U.S. Patent Office granted Alva J. Fisher of the Hurley Machine Co. a patent for an electrically powered washing machine.
1944 - 258 African-American sailors based at Port Chicago, California, refused to load a munitions ship following a cargo vessel explosion that killed 320 men, many of them black. (Fifty of the sailors were convicted of mutiny, fined and imprisoned.)
1945 - The United States detonated a nuclear bomb over Nagasaki, Japan, killing an estimated 74,000 people, 39,000 of them instantly, during World War II; the bombing came three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
1965 - Singapore declared its independence from Malaysia.
1969 - Actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found brutally slain at Tate's Los Angeles home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his followers were later convicted of the crime.
1974 - Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as the country's 38th president following the resignation of Richard Nixon.
1982 - A federal judge in Washington ordered John W. Hinckley Jr., who'd been acquitted of shooting President Ronald Reagan and three others by reason of insanity, committed to a mental hospital.
1985 - A federal judge in Norfolk, Virginia, found retired Navy officer Arthur J. Walker guilty of seven counts of spying for the Soviet Union. (Walker, who was sentenced to life, died in prison in 2014 at the age of 79.)
1988 - President Ronald Reagan nominated Lauro Cavazos to be secretary of education; Cavazos became the first Hispanic to hold a Cabinet position.
1995 - Jerry Garcia, lead singer and guitarist of the Grateful Dead, died at age 53 from a heart attack in Forest Knolls, California.
2001 - President George W. Bush approved federal funding for existing lines of embryonic stem cells.
2004 - Terry Nichols was sentenced to 161 consecutive life sentences on state murder charges in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2010 - Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, 86, the longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate, was killed in a plane crash in southwestern Alaska.
2014 - Michael Brown Jr., an unarmed 18-year-old black man, was shot to death by a police officer following an altercation in Ferguson, Missouri; Brown's death led to sometimes-violent protests in Ferguson and other U.S. cities, spawning a national "Black Lives Matter" movement.
2018 - Vice President Mike Pence announced plans for a new, separate U.S. Space Force as a sixth military service by 2020.
2018 - The parents of first lady Melania Trump were sworn in as U.S. citizens; they had been living in the country as permanent residents.
2018 - Evacuation orders expanded to 20,000 as a wildfire that had been intentionally set moved perilously close to homes in Southern California.
Birthdays
28 - Alexa Bliss (professional wrestler)
34 - Anna Kendrick (actress)
36 - Ashley Johnson (actress)
43 - Jessica Capshaw (actress)
43 - Texas Battle (actor)
44 - Rhona Mitra (actress)
46 - Kevin McKidd (actor)
47 - Liz Vassey (actress)
48 - Nikki Schieler Ziering (actress)
49 - Thomas Lennon (actor)
49 - Chris Cuomo (TV host)
51 - Eric Bana (actor)
51 - Gillian Anderson (actress)
52 - Deion Sanders (football/baseball player)
53 - Pat Petersen (actor)
55 - Hoda Kotb (TV host)
55 - Brett Hull (hockey player)
61 - Amanda Bearse (actress)
62 - Melanie Griffith (actress)
64 - Doug Williams (football player)
67 - John Cappelletti (football player)
72 - Barbara Mason (singer)
75 - Sam Elliott (actor)
81 - Rod Laver (tennis player)
85 - Cynthia Harris (actress)
91 - Bob Cousy (basketball player)
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Today in Sports History - August 9
1936 - Jesse Owens became the first American to win four gold medals in one Olympic Games.
1971 - Satchel Paige is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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.
1977 - The NHL refuses a merger with six WHA clubs.
1981 - The Major League Baseball season resumed after a mid-season players' strike with the All-Star Game. The National League won the game 5-4 in Cleveland.
1988 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers was traded to the Los Angeles Kings. The trade was at Gretzky's request. He was sent to the Kings with Mike Krushelnyski and Marty McSorley. Edmonton received Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelina, three first-round draft picks and cash.
1988 - The Chicago Cubs beat the New York Mets 6-4 in their first official night game at Wrigley Field.
1990 - The NHL approved the sale of the Minnesota North Stars by George and Gordon Gund. The Gunds were granted the rights to a Bay Area team that could begin play in October 1991. The team was the San Jose Sharks.
2002 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants became the fourth player in major league history to hit 600 career home runs, joining Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays.
2008 - United States takes all 3 medals in women's fencing sabre event at the Beijing Olympics; first US podium sweep of a fencing event since 1904; Mariel Zagunis takes gold ahead of Sada Jacobson & Rebecca Ward.
2012 - Shannon Eastin became the first female to officiate an NFL game when she worked as a line judge in a preseason game between the San Diego Chargers and the Green Bay Packers.
2012 - Sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica wins the 200 meters at the London Olympic Games to become the first to win the 100m/200m double in back-to-back Olympics.
2012 - The United States women's soccer team defeats Japan 2-1 to win the gold medal at the London games.
2016 - American swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 20th Olympic gold medal after taking the 200 meter butterfly at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.
1854 - Henry David Thoreau's Walden, recounting his experiment in solitary life on the shores of Massachusetts' Walden Pond, was published.
1902 - Britain's Edward VII was crowned king following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
1910 - The U.S. Patent Office granted Alva J. Fisher of the Hurley Machine Co. a patent for an electrically powered washing machine.
1944 - 258 African-American sailors based at Port Chicago, California, refused to load a munitions ship following a cargo vessel explosion that killed 320 men, many of them black. (Fifty of the sailors were convicted of mutiny, fined and imprisoned.)
1945 - The United States detonated a nuclear bomb over Nagasaki, Japan, killing an estimated 74,000 people, 39,000 of them instantly, during World War II; the bombing came three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
1965 - Singapore declared its independence from Malaysia.
1969 - Actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found brutally slain at Tate's Los Angeles home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his followers were later convicted of the crime.
1974 - Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as the country's 38th president following the resignation of Richard Nixon.
1982 - A federal judge in Washington ordered John W. Hinckley Jr., who'd been acquitted of shooting President Ronald Reagan and three others by reason of insanity, committed to a mental hospital.
1985 - A federal judge in Norfolk, Virginia, found retired Navy officer Arthur J. Walker guilty of seven counts of spying for the Soviet Union. (Walker, who was sentenced to life, died in prison in 2014 at the age of 79.)
1988 - President Ronald Reagan nominated Lauro Cavazos to be secretary of education; Cavazos became the first Hispanic to hold a Cabinet position.
1995 - Jerry Garcia, lead singer and guitarist of the Grateful Dead, died at age 53 from a heart attack in Forest Knolls, California.
2001 - President George W. Bush approved federal funding for existing lines of embryonic stem cells.
2004 - Terry Nichols was sentenced to 161 consecutive life sentences on state murder charges in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2010 - Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, 86, the longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate, was killed in a plane crash in southwestern Alaska.
2014 - Michael Brown Jr., an unarmed 18-year-old black man, was shot to death by a police officer following an altercation in Ferguson, Missouri; Brown's death led to sometimes-violent protests in Ferguson and other U.S. cities, spawning a national "Black Lives Matter" movement.
2018 - Vice President Mike Pence announced plans for a new, separate U.S. Space Force as a sixth military service by 2020.
2018 - The parents of first lady Melania Trump were sworn in as U.S. citizens; they had been living in the country as permanent residents.
2018 - Evacuation orders expanded to 20,000 as a wildfire that had been intentionally set moved perilously close to homes in Southern California.
Birthdays
28 - Alexa Bliss (professional wrestler)
34 - Anna Kendrick (actress)
36 - Ashley Johnson (actress)
43 - Jessica Capshaw (actress)
43 - Texas Battle (actor)
44 - Rhona Mitra (actress)
46 - Kevin McKidd (actor)
47 - Liz Vassey (actress)
48 - Nikki Schieler Ziering (actress)
49 - Thomas Lennon (actor)
49 - Chris Cuomo (TV host)
51 - Eric Bana (actor)
51 - Gillian Anderson (actress)
52 - Deion Sanders (football/baseball player)
53 - Pat Petersen (actor)
55 - Hoda Kotb (TV host)
55 - Brett Hull (hockey player)
61 - Amanda Bearse (actress)
62 - Melanie Griffith (actress)
64 - Doug Williams (football player)
67 - John Cappelletti (football player)
72 - Barbara Mason (singer)
75 - Sam Elliott (actor)
81 - Rod Laver (tennis player)
85 - Cynthia Harris (actress)
91 - Bob Cousy (basketball player)
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Today in Sports History - August 9
1936 - Jesse Owens became the first American to win four gold medals in one Olympic Games.
1971 - Satchel Paige is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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.
1977 - The NHL refuses a merger with six WHA clubs.
1981 - The Major League Baseball season resumed after a mid-season players' strike with the All-Star Game. The National League won the game 5-4 in Cleveland.
1988 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers was traded to the Los Angeles Kings. The trade was at Gretzky's request. He was sent to the Kings with Mike Krushelnyski and Marty McSorley. Edmonton received Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelina, three first-round draft picks and cash.
1988 - The Chicago Cubs beat the New York Mets 6-4 in their first official night game at Wrigley Field.
1990 - The NHL approved the sale of the Minnesota North Stars by George and Gordon Gund. The Gunds were granted the rights to a Bay Area team that could begin play in October 1991. The team was the San Jose Sharks.
2002 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants became the fourth player in major league history to hit 600 career home runs, joining Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays.
2008 - United States takes all 3 medals in women's fencing sabre event at the Beijing Olympics; first US podium sweep of a fencing event since 1904; Mariel Zagunis takes gold ahead of Sada Jacobson & Rebecca Ward.
2012 - Shannon Eastin became the first female to officiate an NFL game when she worked as a line judge in a preseason game between the San Diego Chargers and the Green Bay Packers.
2012 - Sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica wins the 200 meters at the London Olympic Games to become the first to win the 100m/200m double in back-to-back Olympics.
2012 - The United States women's soccer team defeats Japan 2-1 to win the gold medal at the London games.
2016 - American swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 20th Olympic gold medal after taking the 200 meter butterfly at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.
