WillDekkard
08-09-2010, 03:27 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - August 9th
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* 48 BC Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
* 378 Gothic War: 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 over half 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.
* 1173 Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete.
* 1329 Quilon the first Indian Diocese is erected by Pope John XXII and Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop
* 1483 Opening of the Sistine Chapel
* 1810 Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
* 1814 Indian Wars: The Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
* 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
* 1854 Henry David Thoreau published Walden.
* 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 Percι Indians clash with the United States Army.
* 1892 Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
* 1902 Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
* 1907 The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in Southern England.
* 1925 Kakori train robbery took place at Kakori, near Lucknow, India
* 1936 Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.
* 1942 Indian leader, Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
* 1942 World War II: Battle of Savo Island Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
* 1944 The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
* 1944 Continuation war: VyborgPetrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during Second World War, ends to strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
* 1945 World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Fat Man", is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 39,000 people are killed outright.
* 1965 Singapore was expelled from Malaysia and became the first, and only country to gain independence unwillingly.
* 1965 A fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
* 1969 Members of a cult led by Charles Manson brutally murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring, and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
* 1971 Internment in Northern Ireland: British security forces arrest hundreds of nationalists and detain them without trial in Long Kesh prison. Twenty people die in the riots that follow.
* 1974 As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
* 1977 The military-controlled Government of Uruguay announces that it will return the nation to civilian rule through general elections in 1981 for a President and Congress.
* 1988 Wayne Gretzky is traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial player transactions in ice hockey history, upsetting many Canadians that some considered him a "traitor" to his home country.
* 1993 The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
* 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.
* 2001 US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
* 2007 Emergence of the Financial crisis of 2007-2008 when a liquidity crisis resulted from the Subprime mortgage crisis
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This Date in History - August 9th
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* 48 BC Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
* 378 Gothic War: 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 over half 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.
* 1173 Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete.
* 1329 Quilon the first Indian Diocese is erected by Pope John XXII and Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop
* 1483 Opening of the Sistine Chapel
* 1810 Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
* 1814 Indian Wars: The Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
* 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
* 1854 Henry David Thoreau published Walden.
* 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 Percι Indians clash with the United States Army.
* 1892 Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
* 1902 Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
* 1907 The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in Southern England.
* 1925 Kakori train robbery took place at Kakori, near Lucknow, India
* 1936 Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.
* 1942 Indian leader, Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
* 1942 World War II: Battle of Savo Island Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
* 1944 The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
* 1944 Continuation war: VyborgPetrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during Second World War, ends to strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
* 1945 World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Fat Man", is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 39,000 people are killed outright.
* 1965 Singapore was expelled from Malaysia and became the first, and only country to gain independence unwillingly.
* 1965 A fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
* 1969 Members of a cult led by Charles Manson brutally murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring, and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
* 1971 Internment in Northern Ireland: British security forces arrest hundreds of nationalists and detain them without trial in Long Kesh prison. Twenty people die in the riots that follow.
* 1974 As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
* 1977 The military-controlled Government of Uruguay announces that it will return the nation to civilian rule through general elections in 1981 for a President and Congress.
* 1988 Wayne Gretzky is traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial player transactions in ice hockey history, upsetting many Canadians that some considered him a "traitor" to his home country.
* 1993 The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
* 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.
* 2001 US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
* 2007 Emergence of the Financial crisis of 2007-2008 when a liquidity crisis resulted from the Subprime mortgage crisis
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