On this day in history
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Source: HistoryNet.com
0048: Julius Caesar defeats Gnaius Pompey at Pharsalus.
1483: Pope Sixtus IV celebrates the first mass in the Sistine Chapel, which is named in his honor.
1842: The Webster-Ashburton treaty fixes the border between Maine and Canada's New Brunswick.
1910: The first complete, self-contained electric washing machine is patented.
1936: Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in track and field events at the Berlin Olympics.
1941: President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. The meeting produces the Atlantic Charter, an agreement between the two countries on war aims, even though the United States is still a neutral country.
1944: Fictional character Smokey Bear ("Only you can prevent forest fires") created by US Forest Service and the Ad Council.
1945: The B-29 bomber Bock's Car drops a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
1969: Charles Manson’s followers kill actress Sharon Tate and her three guests in her Beverly Hills home.
1999: Russian president Boris Yeltsin fires his prime minister and, for the fourth time, fires the entire cabinet.
