Aug 9, 1859
The American inventor Otis Tufts patented the first elevator in the US.
Today is
Singapore National Day
The day celebrates Singapore’s independence from Malaysia in 1965.
Aug 9, 1962
Hermann Hesse, the German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1946), died at age 85. *Hermann Hesse 赫尔曼·黑塞（台湾译作“赫曼·赫塞”。）