August 9

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August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining.

Contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

48 BC - Roman Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
378 - Battle of Adrianople: A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey. Valens is killed along with 2/3 of his army.
681 - Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube, after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.
1048 - Pope Damasus II dies in Rome, after reigning for only 23 days.
1173 - Construction of the (Leaning) Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete.
1483 - Opening of the Sistine Chapel
1842 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain - At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
1877 - Indian Wars: Battle of Big Hole - A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army.
1892 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
1902 - Edward VII is crowned king of the United Kingdom.
1936 - 1936 Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympic Games.
1942 - Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
1944 - The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey the Bear for the first time.
1945 - World War II: An atomic bomb, codenamed Fat Man, is dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan killing an estimated 70,000-90,000 people.
1965 - Singapore seceded from the newly-formed Federation of Malaysia.
1965 - Space disasters: A fire at a Titan missile base near Little Rock, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
1967 - Vietnam War: Operation Cochise initiated - United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley.
1969 - Members of a cult led by Charles Manson brutally murder Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Jay Sebring, and Steven Parent at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles.
1974 - Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
1983 - Peter Jennings hosts his first broadcast of ABC's World News Tonight as sole anchor.
1986 - The Headington Shark is erected in Oxford.
1987 - 9 People are shot dead and 17 more injured as 19-year old Julian Knight opens fire at random in the Hoddle Street Massacre in Clifton Hill
1988 - Wayne Gretzky is traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial transactions in hockey history.
1988 - Baseball's all-day-game era officially came to an end when the Cubs beat the Mets 6-4 in Wrigley Field's first night game.
1989 - Kaifu Toshiki becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
1993 - The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
1993 - King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office.
1995 - Netscape launches IPO. Jerry Garcia, founding member and lead guitarist for Grateful Dead succumbs due to heart failure induced by sleep apnea at Serenity Knolls in Forest Hills, California.
1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
1999 - The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru and Kimi Ga Yo as the official national flag and national anthem.
2000 - A Piper Navajo and a Piper Seminole collide in mid-air over a housing development in Burlington, New Jersey, killing 11
2001 - US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
2001 - In Jerusalem, 15 people die and 130 are wounded in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing.
2005 - Space Shuttle Discovery makes successful touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base, California

Births

1201 - Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler (d. 1274)
1593 - Izaak Walton, English angler (d. 1683)
1631 - John Dryden, English Poet Laureate (d. 1700)
1648 - Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)
1653 - John Oldham, English poet (d. 1683)
1674 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
1722 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (d. 1758)
1726 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778)
1757 - Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1834)
1776 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (d. 1856)
1797 - Charles Robert Malden, British naval officer (d. 1855)
1805 - Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer (d. 1860)
1845 - André Besette, Canadian religious figure (d. 1937)
1871 - Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (d. 1919)
1872 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1962)
1874 - Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor (d. 1947)
1896 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (d. 1980)
1896 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
1896 - Erich Hückel, German physicist (d. 1980)
1899 - P. L. Travers, Australian author (d. 1996)
1901 - Charles Farrell, American actor (d. 1990)
1902 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)
1909 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat opposing the Nazi regime (executed) (d. 1944)
1911 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1914 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author (d. 2001)
1919 - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1987)
1919 - Ralph Houk, baseball player and manager
1920 - Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and writer
1921 - J. James Exon, Nebraska Senator and Governor
1922 - Philip Larkin, English poet (d. 1985)
1925 - David A. Huffman, Creator of Huffman coding (d. 1999)
1927 - Daniel Keyes, American author
1927 - Robert Shaw, English actor (d. 1978)
1928 - Bob Cousy, American basketball player
1931 - Mário Zagallo, Brazilian football coach and player
1933 - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese television personality and children's author
1938 - Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician
1938 - Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
1939 - Romano Prodi, Italian politician, President of the European Commission
1939 - Brito, Brazilian footballer
1944 - Sam Elliott, American actor
1945 - Ken Norton, American boxer
1945 - Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist
1948 - Bill Campbell, baseball player
1949 - Jonathan Kellerman, American writer
1952 - Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, Thai politician
1957 - Melanie Griffith, American actress
1959 - Stuart Hughes, Canadian actor
1961 - Amy Stiller, American actress
1962 - Kevin Mack, American football player
1962 - Louis Lipps, American football player
1963 - Whitney Houston, American singer and actress
1964 - Brett Hull, Canadian-born hockey player
1967 - Deion Sanders, American football player
1968 - Gillian Anderson, American actress
1968 - Eric Bana, Australian actor
1968 - Karyn Parsons, American actress
1969 - Troy Percival, baseball player
1970 - Rod Brind'Amour
1972 - Juanes, Colombian singer
1973 - Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor
1973 - Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer
1974 - Mahesh Babu, Popular Indian film actor
1974 - Matt Morris, baseball player
1976 - Jessica Capshaw, American actress
1976 - Rhona Mitra, English actress
1977 - Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player
1977 - Mikael Silvestre, French footballer
1978 - Audrey Tautou, French actress
1994 - Forrest Landis, American child actor

Deaths

117 - Trajan, Roman Emperor (b. 53)
378 - Valens, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 328)
803 - Byzantine Empress Irene
1107 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
1250 - King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216)
1534 - Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (b. 1470)
1634 - William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
1720 - Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
1744 - James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673)
1837 - Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
1886 - Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
1919 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
1942 - Edith Stein, (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) (executed) (b. 1891)
1945 - Harry Hillman, American athlete (b. 1881)
1962 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
1967 - Joe Orton, English writer (b. 1933)
1969 - Abigail Folger, American heiress (murdered) (b. 1943)
1969 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer (murdered) (b. 1936)
1969 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1969 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933)
1969 - Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered) (b. 1943)
1969 - Steven Parent, American student (murdered) (b. 1951))
1975 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
1995 - Jerry Garcia, American guitarist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1942)
2000 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1920)
2002 - Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist
2003 - Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945)
2003 - Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (b. 1946)
2005 - Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
2005 - Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935)

Holidays and observances

Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least ? saints:
* St. Jean Vianney
* St. Edith Stein
* St. Romanus Ostiarius
* St. Fedlimid/Felimy
* St. Nathy (or David)
Feast day of the great martyr Saint Panteleimon in Russian Orthodox Church
Singapore: National Day

External links

August 8 - August 10 - July 9 - September 9 — listing of all days

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