Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 9
This is a list of selected August 9 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Leaning Tower of Pisa -
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Interior of the Sistine Chapel -
Sharon Tate -
Resignation letter of Richard Nixon -
First Smokey Bear poster
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| National Day in Singapore (1965); | unreferenced stub |
| National Women's Day in South Africa; | unreferenced stub |
| 48 BC – Julius Caesar and the Populares defeated Pompey and the Optimates at the Battle of Pharsalus, solidifying his control over the Roman Republic. | unreferenced section |
| 378 – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens was destroyed by the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. | unreferenced section |
| 1842 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty was signed, clarifying the Canada–United States border between Lake Superior and the Lake of the Woods, and the location of the Maine–New Brunswick border. | needs more footnotes |
| 1969 – Followers of cult leader Charles Manson murdered pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others in her home in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, California. | references missing page numbers |
Eligible
- 1483 – The first mass in the Sistine Chapel (interior pictured) in the Vatican City was celebrated.
- 1854 – Henry David Thoreau published Walden, his account of having spent two years living mostly in isolation on the shores of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.
- 1877 – Nez Perce War: Both Nez Perce and United States Army sides suffered numerous casualties as they fought to a stalemate in the Battle of the Big Hole.
- 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1942 – World War II: In the first major naval engagement of the Guadalcanal campaign, Japan forced the United States Navy to withdraw from the Solomon Islands.
- 1944 – Smokey Bear, the mascot of the United States Forest Service, made his debut on a poster, replacing Bambi.
- 1974 – Watergate scandal: Richard Nixon became the only President of the United States to resign from office.
- 1971 – The Troubles: British authorities began arresting and interning (without trial) people accused of being republican paramilitary members.
- 2001 – Fifteen people were killed and 130 others were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated his bomb at a Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem.
August 9: International Day of the World's Indigenous People
- 1173 – The construction of a campanile, which would eventually become the Leaning Tower of Pisa, began.
- 1862 – American Civil War: After nearly being driven from the field in the early part of the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Confederate troops counterattacked and achieved a victory.
- 1945 – World War II: USAAF bomber Bockscar dropped an atomic bomb named "Fat Man", devastating Nagasaki, Japan (mushroom cloud pictured).
- 1965 – Malaysia expelled the state of Singapore from its federation due to heated ideological conflict between their respective ruling parties.
- 1988 – Wayne Gretzky was traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial player transactions in ice hockey history.
- 2006 – British police arrested 24 people for conspiring to detonate liquid explosives carried on board at least 10 airliners travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States and Canada.