Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 9

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• Leaning Tower of Pisa
  Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Replica of the original Fat Man atomic bomb
  Replica of the original Fat Man atomic bomb
• Interior of the Sistine Chapel
  Interior of the Sistine Chapel
• North and east walls of the Sistine Chapel
  North and east walls of the Sistine Chapel
• Sharon Tate
  Sharon Tate
• Richard Nixon
  Richard Nixon
• Resignation letter of Richard Nixon
  Resignation letter of Richard Nixon
• First Smokey Bear poster
  First Smokey Bear poster
• Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki
  Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki

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Blurb	Reason
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 that eventually became known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa.	Unreffed statements, page number
1483 – The first mass in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City was celebrated.	refimprove
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
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
Eileen Gray |b|1878	missing page numbers

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• 1821 – The statue of A'a from Rurutu was presented to members of the London Missionary Society on the south Pacific island of Ra'iatea.
• 1877 – Nez Perce War: Both the Nez Perce and the United States Army suffered numerous casualties at the Battle of the Big Hole, which ended conclusively.
• 1897 – The first meeting of the International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Zürich, Switzerland.
• 1934 – The Blue Lotus, the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé and noted for its emphasis on countering negative misconceptions of Chinese people, began serialisation.
• 1942 – World War II: In the first major naval engagement of the Guadalcanal campaign, Japan forced the U.S. Navy to withdraw from the Solomon Islands.
• 1942 – Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 was premiered in Leningrad while the city was under siege by Nazi forces.
• 1944 – The United States Forest Service authorized the use of Smokey Bear (pictured) as its mascot to replace Bambi.
• 1945 – World War II: The USAAF bomber Bockscar dropped a Fat Man atomic bomb (replica pictured) on Nagasaki, Japan.
• 1956 – About 20,000 women marched on Pretoria, South Africa, to protest the introduction of pass laws for black women under apartheid.
• 1960 – Led by Albert Kalonji, South Kasai declared its unilateral secession from the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
• 1969 – Members of the Manson Family invaded a house and murdered American actress Sharon Tate (pictured) and four guests in Los Angeles, before killing two more people the following night.
• 1971 – The Troubles: British forces began arresting and interning suspected Irish republican militants in Northern Ireland.
• 1974 – On the verge of an impeachment and removal from office amid the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon became the first president of the United States to resign.
• 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.
• 2018 – A civilian school bus in Dahyan, Yemen, was bombed by Saudi Arabia killing at least 40 children under 15.
• 2014 – Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African-American man, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, resulting in widespread protests and unrest.
• 2018 - A civilian school bus in Dahyan, Yemen, was bombed by Saudi Arabia, killing at least 40 children under 15.
• Born/died: | Arnold Fitz Thedmar |b|1201| Walter of Kirkham |d|1260| Stephen of Anjou |d|1354| Michael the Brave |d|1601| Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton |b|1757| Roman Dmowski |b|1864| Annie Turnbo Malone |b|1869| Albert Ketèlbey |b|1875| Ernst Haeckel |d|1919| Philip Larkin |b|1922| Bob Cousy |b|1928| Sam Elliott |b|1944| Brett Hull |b|1964| Beryl May Dent |d|1977|Li Jiawei|b|1981| Jason Heyward |b|1989| Buffy Chen |b|2000| Gay van der Meer |d|2014| Zhu Liang |d|2025|

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 (1956) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate troops counter-attacked and won the Battle of Cedar Mountain, after nearly being driven from the field in the early part of the battle.
• 1902 – In a ceremony at Westminster Abbey, Edward VII and Alexandra were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor and Empress of India.
• 1965 – The state of Singapore (flag pictured) was expelled from the Malaysian federation due to a heated ideological conflict between their ruling parties; the day is now celebrated as Singapore's National Day.
• 2001 – Second Intifada: A suicide bomber attacked a pizza restaurant in Jerusalem, killing 15 people and wounding 130 others.
• 2006 – British police arrested 24 people for conspiring to detonate liquid explosives carried on board airliners travelling from the UK to the US and Canada.