What happened this day in history - August 9

1870 - Parliament passed the Married Women's Property Act, which meant women no longer had to sign all their property over to their husbands when they married.
What happened this day in history - August 9 EMN-170808-175548001What happened this day in history - August 9 EMN-170808-175548001
What happened this day in history - August 9 EMN-170808-175548001

1892 - Thomas Edison received a patent for a two-way telegraph.

1902 - Edward VII was crowned King at Westminster Abbey.

1907 - The first Boy Scout encampment concluded at Brownsea Island in southern England.

1930 - Betty Boop made her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.

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1936 -American athlete Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics.

1942 - Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi was arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.

1945 - The second atom bomb of World War II was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.

1958 - Cliff Richard signed his first recording contract with EMI, and began a four-week residency at Butlins in Clacton on Sea.

1979 - Britain’s first nudist beach opened in Brighton.

1986 - David Childs set the loop-the-loop record, when his plane completed 2,368 loops.