Monday, August 09, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

AUGUST 9
1854:Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden, his transcendentalist account of simple and self-reliant living by Walden Pond, near Concord, Mass.

1936: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the Olympic Games in Berlin in the 4x100-meter relay. Owens, an African American, and the mixed-race U.S. team dash Adolf Hitler’s attempt to demonstrate Aryan supremacy in athletics.


1974: Gerald R. Ford is sworn in as the 38th president of the United States after Richard Nixon officially departs from the White House. Ford is the first president to come into office through appointment rather than election, as he was chosen to replace Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973.

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