On this day: August 9

POSTED: 04:01 PM PDT Aug 06, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Aug 08, 2012 

Construction begins on the Leaning Tower of Pisa, a firefighting bear makes his debut, the United States drops the bomb on Japan again, Charles Manson's followers commit mass murder and Nixon resigns, all on this day.

OTD August 9 - Jerry Garcia
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Carl Lender via Wikimedia Commons

1995: Grateful Dead co-founder Jerry Garcia dies of a heart attack at the age of 53 in Forest Knolls, Calif.

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