Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 9

Babylonian Nebukadnezar II defeated in Jerusalem
Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupies North Spain
1371: Pope Gregory XI names Arnold II of Horne as bishop of Utrecht
1401: Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad
1517: Gelderse crowd robber murders population of Asperen
1536: French navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada
1540: England's King Henry VIII 6-mo marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled
1572: 19 Catholic priests hanged in Gorcum
1595: Johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe
1609: Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemian protestants freedom of religion
1672: Prince Willem III inaugurated as viceroy of Holland/Zealand
1686: Germany, Sweden & Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg
1745: Bonnie Prince Charlies Elisabeth battles with HMS Lion
1755: Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British
1755: Brit Gen E Braddock mortally wounded during French & Indian War
1766: English premier Rockingham resigns
1776: Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops (NY)
1780: Denmark declares neutrality
1795: James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt
1800: Mt Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theater in US
1815: 1st natural gas well in US is discovered
1815: King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France
1816: Argentina declares independence from Spain
1835: St Etienne-Lyons railway opens in France
1842: Notary Stamp Law passes
1846: Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (SF) for US
1852: Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal Canada & no one die
1853: Adm Perry & US Navy visit Japan
1860: Temperature hits 115øF in Ft Scott & 112øF in Topeka Kansas
1862: Gen John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Ky
1863: R Morgan's: Indiana [->JUL 13]
1863: Union troops enter Port Hudson
1864: Battle of Monocacy, MD US1959 CS400
1868: 1st black cabinet member in SC (Francis L Cardozo-sect of state)
1869: Concord pipe, made from small corn kernels, invented
1872: Doughnut cutter patents by John Blondel, Thomaston, Me
1876: Black landowner murdered in Hamburg SC
1878: An improved corncob pipe patents by Henry Tibbe, Washington, Mo
1879: C H F Peters discovers asteroid #199 Byblis
1891: Irene Coit is 1st woman admitted to Yale University
1893: Dr Daniel Hale Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery
1893: without anesthesia
1900: Australia accepts its constitution
1902: L Carnera discovers asteroid #487 Venetia
1908: CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms
1910: Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude
1914: 1st US duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, NY
1915: Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa
1916: 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in US from Germany
1917: British warship Vanguard explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804
1918: 101 killed & 171 injured in worst US train wreck, Nashville, Tenn
1918: Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal
1922: Johnny Weissmuller swims 1st 100 m free style under 1 minute
1926: Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander
1926: Coup under Gen Sinel de Cordes in Portugal
1927: Atty William T Francis named minister to Liberia
1932: Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) forms
1932: Yanks' Ben Chapman hits 2 inside-the-park HRs, tying record
1933: Frankford Yellowjackets sold, rechristened Philadelphia Eagles
1934: SS-Reichs Fhrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps
1940: German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pogroms
1940: RAF bombs Germany
1942: Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family & 4 other Jews
1943: 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje
1943: British air raid sinks U-435
1944: Barnum & Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford Conn)
1944: U-740 sinks
1944: World War II, US troops secure Saipan as Japan fell
1944: World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's -
1947: Britain's Princess Elizabeth & Lt Philip Mountbatten's engagement
1947: Spain votes for Franco monarchy
1948: Satchel Paige, 42, debuts in majors pitching 2 scoreless inn for Cleve
1949: Benjamin Britten's Jump Symphony, premieres
1950: 13.15 (33.40 cm) of rainfall, York, Nebraska (state 24-hour record)
1951: Pres Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
1953: 1st helicopter passenger service (NYC)
1953: Phillies Robin Roberts ends streak of 28 consecutive complete games
1955: 1st black executive on White House staff (E Frederic Morrow)
1955: Bill Haley & Comets' Rock Around the Clock tops billboards chart
1955: Rock Around Clock hits #1 on Top 100 chart
1955: Strike in Belgium for 5 day work week
1956: Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand
1957: Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced
1958: Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock & ice
1958: into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain
1962: US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963: All star MVP: Willie Mays (SF Giants)
1963: Federation of Malaysia forms
1965: John Edrich completes 310* v NZ in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes
1965: Senators Frank Howard ties record with 7 strikeouts in DH
1967: WRET TV channel 36 in Charlotte, NC (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1968: 15.68 (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Miss (state 24-hour record)
1969: Tom Seaver's no-hit bid against Cubs ends with 1 out in 9th
1970: Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn
1971: Henry Kissinger visits China PR
1972: 1st tour of Paul McCartney & Wings (France)
1973: 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel
1974: Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election
1976: England all out for 71 v WI at Old Trafford, Holding 14 5-7-17-5
1976: Houston Astro Larry Dierker no-hits Montreal Expos, 6-0
1976: Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe
1978: American Nazi Party, holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago
1978: Hello, Dolly! closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 152 perfs
1978: L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2530 Shipka
1978: Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Wash DC for ERA
1979: Dr Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab
1979: Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter
1980: 7 die in a stampede to see Pope in Brazil
1980: Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years
1980: Walt Disney's Fox & The Hound, released
1981: Jacksons begin a 36-city tour
1982: Botham scores 208 in 225 balls, England v India at The Oval
1982: Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster
1982: Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner La, killing 153
1984: 12th minster of York destroyed in lightening storm
1984: Yvonne Ryding, of Sweden, crowned 33rd Miss Universe
1985: South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong
1986: Atlanta's Dale Murphy doesn't play ending consecutive streak at 740
1986: Att Gen's Com on Pornography links hard-core porn to sex crimes
1986: Padres trade pitcher Tim Stoddard to Yankees for pitcher Ed Whitson
1987: 1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime
1987: Col Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence
1988: Chris Speier hits for the cycle & Ernest Riles hits 10,000th Giant HR
1988: Facts of Life, Lisa Whelchel weds Steve Cauble
1988: Jessye Norman begins recording Bizets Carmen
1989: H E Holt discovers asteroid #4745 Nancymarie
1991: All star MVP: Cal Ripken Jr (Balt Orioles)
1991: E Helin discovers asteroid #6271 Farmer, #6522 Aci & #6560 Pravdo
1991: Little Night Music opens at New York State Theater NYC for 7 perfs
1991: South Africa readmitted to Olympics
1992: Kim Basinger gets 1,959th star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992: Space Shuttle STS 50 (Columbia 13) lands
1994: 11,000th HR in NY Yankees history (Matt Nokes)
1994: Osservatorio San Vittore discovers asteroid #6746 Zagar
1994: Sonia O'Sullivan runs world record 2k (5:25.36)
1994: Soyuz TM-19 lands
1995: Play's the Thing opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 75 performances
1995: US international postage rates rise to 60› per « ounce
1996: All star MVP: Mike Piazza (LA Dodgers)
1996: US Senate approves 90› raise to $4.25 minimum wage
1997: Mike Tyson is banned from boxing, for biting Holyfield's ear
2002: 20 dies when Car bomb blasts

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