Portal:Transport/Selected anniversaries/August 9

• 1844 – In the United Kingdom, the Railway Regulation Act of 1844 requires every railway company to run at least one passenger train a day in both directions along the length of each of its lines, calling at every station; these trains soon become known as Parliamentaries.
• 1885 – The first fully controllable free-flight is made in a French Army dirigible La France by Charles Renard and Arthur Krebs.
• 1945 – B-29 Bockscar drops a plutonium-239 nuclear weapon, Fat Man (pictured), on Nagasaki.
• 1958 – The Moccasin, the longest running named passenger train in Canada thus far, is discontinued.
• 2000 – Firestone recalls 6.5 million tires in the United States.

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