Miscellaneous Thoughts

Tim Wakefield really didn't want to own this record... 68 years ago today - Jesse Owens won his 4th Olympic gold medal at the Berlin Olympics. Owens basically single handedly debunked Hitler's propaganda of Aryan superiority with his victories. As the Australians would say, "Good on ya' Jesse"... 59 years ago today - the second atomic bomb was dropped on Japan - this time on Nagasaki. The second A-bomb resulted in the unconditional surrender of the Japanese... 35 years ago today - Charles Manson and his followers killed five people (including actress Sharon Tate) in the home of director of Roman Polanski... 28 years ago today - President Richard Nixon resigned from office making Gerald Ford the 38th President of the United States... 9 years ago Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead passed away... August 9th was a busy day in history...