This day in history - August 9
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:18 pm
1831 - A steam locomotive named the De Witt Clinton made its first trip between Albany and Schenectady, New York.
This is one of many milestones claimed as the first railroad journey in the U.S. It wasn't.
1842 - The Webster-Ashburton Treaty, negotiated by U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster, defined the border between the U.S. and Canada east of Lake of the Woods (on the border between current-day Minnesota, Ontario, and Manitoba) The treaty ended years of low-level border skirmishes. It also committed both countries to end the African slave trade to North America.
1936 - Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal in the Berlin Olympics, to the chagrin of Hitler and other Nazi racists.
1945 - The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
1969 - Sharon Tate, her unborn child, and four other people were found brutally murdered in Los Angeles.
1974 - Gerald Ford became president after Richard Nixon resigned, the only such transfer of power in U.S. history.
1976 - The USSR launched Luna 24, which landed on the moon and sent back samples. It was the last spacecraft to land on the moon, to date.
- Jim
This is one of many milestones claimed as the first railroad journey in the U.S. It wasn't.
1842 - The Webster-Ashburton Treaty, negotiated by U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster, defined the border between the U.S. and Canada east of Lake of the Woods (on the border between current-day Minnesota, Ontario, and Manitoba) The treaty ended years of low-level border skirmishes. It also committed both countries to end the African slave trade to North America.
1936 - Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal in the Berlin Olympics, to the chagrin of Hitler and other Nazi racists.
1945 - The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
1969 - Sharon Tate, her unborn child, and four other people were found brutally murdered in Los Angeles.
1974 - Gerald Ford became president after Richard Nixon resigned, the only such transfer of power in U.S. history.
1976 - The USSR launched Luna 24, which landed on the moon and sent back samples. It was the last spacecraft to land on the moon, to date.
- Jim