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Sunday, 09 August 2026
1933 US Employment Service created 
1933 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ).
1934 Securities and Exchange Commission established
1934 The Securities and Exchange Commission is established.
1935 Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68
1936 Aviation gasoline inaugural produced commercially Paulsboro NJ.
1936 40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1937 Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game
1937 Jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26
1938 Sigmund Freud arrives in London
1939 NY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning.
1939 Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65
1940 HMS WRESTLER, damaged off Normandy beaches, northern France in English Channel by German mine
1940 E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56
1941 The inaugural US navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
1941 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched.
1942 Japanese are turned back at the Battle of Midway
1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway.
1942 Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich
1942 The inaugural nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray).
1942 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
1943 Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74
1944 Allied forces storm the Normandy, France beaches during the "D-Day" invasion of Europe in World War II
1944 D-Day 150000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France.
1944 Hanna Senesz, a Jewish girl originally from Hungary, who had immigrated to Palestine, parachutes behind German lines to connect with Hungarian and Slovak resistance fighters. Caught on the Hungarian border, she dies knowing that her mission has given strength to those suffering in the camps
1944 Invasion of Normandy, D-Day, by allied forces
1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor.
1944 Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion
1944 Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day
1945 "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam
1945 Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide.
1946 Henry Morgan is inaugural to take off shirt on TV.
1946 11 Basketball of America Assn teams meet to schedule 1st season.
1946 Gerhart Hauptmann, writer, dies at 83
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