Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 9
August 9: National Day for Singapore (1965), National Women's Day in South Africa.
- 378 – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens was destroyed by the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople.
- 1173 – The construction of a campanile, which would eventually become the Leaning Tower of Pisa, began.
- 1945 – World War II: USAAF bomber Bockscar dropped an atomic bomb named Fat Man, devastating Nagasaki, Japan (pictured).
- 1969 – Followers of cult leader Charles Manson brutally murdered pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others in her Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles home.
- 1974 – The Watergate scandal: Richard Nixon became the first (and to date only) President of the United States to resign from office.
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