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 -
First Smokey Bear poster -
A picture of the Fat Man nuclear device -
Interior of the Sistine Chapel -
North and east walls of the Sistine Chapel -
Sharon Tate -
Richard Nixon -
Resignation letter of Richard Nixon -
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| National Day in Singapore (1965); | refimprove |
| 48 BC – Julius Caesar and the Populares defeated Pompey and the Optimates at the Battle of Pharsalus, solidifying his control over the Roman Republic. | needs more footnotes, unreferenced sections |
| 378 – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens was destroyed by the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. | unreferenced section |
| 1173 – Construction began on a campanile, which would eventually become the Leaning Tower of Pisa. | lots of CN tags |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 1483 – The first mass in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City was celebrated. | refimprove |
| 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, U.S. | refimprove section |
| 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. | Section needs expansion |
| 1965 – Malaysia expelled the state of Singapore (flag pictured) from its federation due to heated ideological conflict between their respective ruling parties. | History: refimprove; Singapore: expansion |
| 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 |
| Gillian Anderson (b. 1968) | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 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.
- 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.
- 1960 – The region of South Kasai seceded from the former Republic of the Congo.
- 1971 – The Troubles: British authorities began arresting and interning (without trial) people accused of being republican paramilitary members.
- 1974 – On the verge of impeachment and removal from office amidst the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon became the first President of the United States to resign his office.
- 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.
- 2014 – A white police officer killed an 18-year-old African-American male in Ferguson, Missouri, resulting in widespread protests and unrest.
- Born/died: Hieronymus Bosch (d. 1516) · Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (b. 1757) · Evelina Haverfield (b. 1867)
Notes
- Enola Gay/Little Boy appear on August 6, so Bockscar/Fat Man should not appear in the same year
- Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo appears on August 7, so Battle of Savo Island should not appear in the same year
August 9: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples; National Women's Day in South Africa
- 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1945 – World War II: USAAF bomber Bockscar dropped a "Fat Man" atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan (pictured).
- 1956 – An estimated 20,000 women marched on Pretoria, South Africa, to protest the introduction of the Apartheid pass laws for black women in 1952.
- 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.
- 2001 – A suicide bomber attacked a Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem, killing 15 people and wounding 130 others.
Michael the Brave (d. 1601) · Eileen Gray (b. 1878) · Philip Larkin (b. 1922)