WEDNESDAY, Aug. 09, 2023

1786 ― First ascent of Mt. Blanc

1790 ― Columbia becomes first U.S. flagged ship to voyage around the world

1803 ― First horses arrive in Hawaii

1831 ― First U.S. steam engine train runs (Albany to Schenectady, NY)

1842 ― U.S.-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty

1849 ― Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia

1854 ― Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"

1942 ― British arrest Indian nationalist Mohandas K. Gandhi

1945 ― U.S. drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan, destroys part of Nagasaki

1965 ― Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)

1969 ― Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders

1988 ― Just 1 day after 8/8/88 NY's daily number is 888