This day in history

Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympic Games, setting a world record in the relay.

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler promoted the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin as a showcase of Aryan supremacy. However, Ohio State University’s Jesse Owens, an African American, confounded the Fuhrer’s racist dogma by winning the 100 and 200 meter events, the long jump and on 9 August, 1936, the relay. His relay team set a new world record, and Hitler, who had planned to shake hands with all the Olympic victors, left the stadium rather than congratulate the African-American track stars.

In Israel, a suicide bomber strikes at a restaurant in Jerusalem killing 15 people. 

The first nudist beach in Britain is established in Brighton.

U.S. Vice President Gerald Ford is sworn in as President following the resignation of Richard Nixon over the Watergate Affair.

The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Brian Faulkner, introduces internment - the ability to indefinitely detain suspected terrorists without trial.

Singapore gains its independence, becoming an independent republic within the British Commonwealth after seceding from Malaysia.

The second atomic bomb is dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki; an estimated 70,000 people are killed.