August 09

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1173	Construction of the campanile of the cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete.	Broadcast	Tower of Our Tuning	The Noise Made by People
2	1854	Henry David Thoreau published Walden.	My Morning Jacket	Into the Woods	Z
3	1892	Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.	La Femme	Télégraphe	Le Podium #1 : La Femme
4	1944	The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.	The Zombies	Smokey Day	Odessey and Oracle
5	1945	World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 39,000 people are killed outright.	Jethro Tull	Fat Man	Stand Up
6	1969	Members of a cult led by Charles Manson brutally murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.	Charles Manson	No Wrong - Come Along	Family Jams
7	1988	Wayne Gretzky is traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial player transactions in ice hockey history, upsetting many Canadians so much that some considered him a "traitor" to his home country.	Elliott Smith	King's Crossing	From a Basement on the Hill

(Historical facts about August 09 are from Wikipedia.)