August 9: In 1483 the Sistine Chapel opens in Rome with the celebration of a Mass; in 1610 the First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia; in 1814 the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia; in 1842 the Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains; in 1854 Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden; in 1877 a small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army in the Battle of Big Hole; in 1892 Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph; in 1902 Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; in 1930 Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes; in 1944 the U.S. Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time; in 1945 Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar - 39,000 people are killed outright; in 1965 a fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers; in 1969 actress Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, mens hairstylist Jay Sebring, and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent are murdered by followers of Charles Manson; in 1974 Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the U.S. to resign from office and his Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. Birthdays: English actor Robert Shaw (1927); actor Sam Elliott (1944); Golden Earring bassist Rinus Gerritsen (1946); actress Melanie Griffith (1957); singer Whitney Houston (1963) hockey player Brett Hull (1964); actress Gillian Anderson (1968). Music: In 1986 Queen give what would prove to be their last live performance ever at the annual Knebworth Park Festival; in 1969 Sly and the Family Stone release Hot Fun In The Summertime and Three Dog Night release Easy To Be Hard.
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