Aug.9- Nagasaki, Manson family, Nixon resigns, Jerry dies

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Aug.9- Nagasaki, Manson family, Nixon resigns, Jerry dies

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August 9
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school

1638: Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes first European settler in the Bronx, a very early form of gentrification.

1758: First Indian reservation in U.S. designated, New Jersey.

1779: Gen. Clinton and 1,500 American troops break dam to flood Iroquois towns and fields in upstate New York; troops then burn and ravage settlements for 12 days.

1836: For an annuity of 1,250 British pounds (about $2,000), the Saugeen Chippewa cede 1.5 million acres (23,500 square miles) bordering Lake Huron in southern Ontario.

1848: Free Soil Party organized in Buffalo, New York.

1851: Cathlamet tribe cede lands at mouth of Columbia where Fort Astoria and Fort George had stood, in exchange for food. Another area tribe, the Clatskaniene, sign a treaty ceding their northwest Oregon land; the treaty was never ratified.

1855: Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising.

1872: Fire destroyed 547 buildings in the heart of Boston's business and commercial district, killing 14 people (including 9 firemen).

1936: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal in the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin.

1943: Franz Jagerstatter, Austrian conscientious objector to Nazi draft, publicly beheaded in Berlin.

1945: U.S. drops atomic bomb on civilian population of Nagasaki, Japan. An estimated 70,000 die from the immediate effects of the bombing.

1956: Twenty thousand women demonstrate against pass laws, Pretoria, South Africa.

1966: Two hundred stage sit-in at New York City offices of Dow Chemical to protest use of napalm in Vietnam.

1969: Manson cult kills five in Los Angeles. Three men and two women, including Sharon Tate and Abigail Folger, found gruesomely murdered in Los Angeles by the "family" of cult leader Charles Manson.

1971: British reintroduce internment without trial to Northern Ireland. Responding to increased activity by the Irish Republican Army, emergency powers of preventive detention without trial invoked. By December, more than 1,500 people will be in prison. Many IRA inmates, known as "blanket men," refuse clothing and smear their cell walls with excrement after prison authorities' deny their political status. During a demonstration in Derry against the arrests, British troops shoot 13 civilians.

1974: Richard M. Nixon resigns as President of the United States.

1982: Six killed in bombing and shooting attack on Jewish restaurant, Paris.

1985: Seven people arrested for blockading the gate to Pantex Nuclear Weapons Assembly Plant, Amarillo, Texas.

1987: Hundreds arrested in all-day blockade of Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, Golden, Colorado.

1989: Twenty-two anti-nuclear activists arrested for trespassing at Nevada Test Site in 110+ degree heat.

1991: Hundreds of people storm abortion clinic in Kansas protesting new law prohibiting the blocking of access to clinics by pro-life demonstrators.

1995: Six hundred Brazilian landless movement families battle police at night; their camp is burnt down.

1995: Death of Grateful Dead singer and junkie Jerry Garcia, New York City.