N E W D E A L N E T W O R K | |
August 9 | |
| 1932 | Iowa Farmers' Union begins 30-day strike to protest falling farm prices. |
| 1936 | Muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens dies. |
| 1941 | Roosevelt meets British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Placentia Bay, in Newfoundland for three day meeting. |
| 1945 | Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki |