9 August

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The 9t o August is the 221st day o the year (222nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 144 days bidin.

Events

681 - Bulgarie is foondit on the sooth bank o the Danube.
1173 - Wirk stairts on the Leanin Touer o Pisa.
1483 - Roum's Sistine Chaipel opens.
1810 - Napoleon I annexes Wastphalie as pairt o the first French Empire.
1890 - The Unitit Kinrick gives the North Sea isle o Heligoland tae Germany.
1902 - Coronation o Edward VII o the Unitit Kinrick.
1912 - A magnitude 7.3 yirdquauk in Persie (nou Iran) kills 5,500 fowk.
1936 - Jesse Owens wins his fowert gowd medal o the 1936 Simmer Olympics in Berlin.
1945 - The Atomic bomb is dropped bi the Unitit States on Nagasaki, Japan. 70,000 fowk are kilt immediately.
1965 - Singapore gains unthirldom frae Malaysie.
1974 - Watergate scandal: Richard Nixon demits as Preses o the Unitit States. He is replaced bi Gerald Ford.
1990 - The Unitit Naitions Security Cooncil rules Iraq's occupation o Kuwait null an void.
1992 - The 1992 Simmer Olympics in Barcelona end.
1993 - Albert II o Belgium becomes Keeng.
1993 - The Leeberal Democratic Pairty o Japan loses a 48-year grip on pouer.
1999 - Vladimir Putin becomes Prime meenister o Roushie.
1999 - Charles Kennedy becomes leader o the Breetish Leeberal Democrats.
2001 - A suicide bombin in Jerusalem kills 15 fowk.
2003 - Scotland's highest-recordit temperatur, 32.9 degress Celsius, is measurit at Greycrook, The Mairches.
2005 - Space Shuttle Discovery lands safely, completin the first space shuttle flicht syne the Columbia disaster in 2003.
2012 - 2012 Simmer Olympics in Lunnon: Nicola Adams becomes the first wumman tae win an Olympic gowd medal in boxin.
2018 - A Saudi airstrike in Dahyan, Yemen, kills 51 fowk, incluidin 29 bairns.
2020 - The Preses election in Belaroushie ends in controversy when incumbent Preses Alexander Lukashenko claims 80% o the vote ower opposeetion candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya; Major protests stairt.

Births

1663 - Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince o Tuscany (d. 1713)
1736 - Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince o Condé (d. 1818)
1757 - Thomas Telford, Scots ceevil ingineer (d. 1834)
1776 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian scientist (d. 1856)
1847 - Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Italian noblewoman (d. 1876)
1896 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist an philosopher (d. 1980)
1911 - William Alfred Fowler, American pheesicist (d. 1995)
1914 - Tove Jansson, Finnish writer an airtist (d. 2001)
1927 - Marvin Minsky, American scientist (d. 2016)
1938 - Leonid Kuchma, umwhile Preses o Ukraine
1938 - Rod Laver, Australie tennis player
1938 - Otto Rehhagel, German fitbawer an manager
1939 - Romano Prodi, Italian politeecian an economist
1952 - Claudia Beamish, Scots politeecian
1953 - Michael Russell, Scots politeecian
1953 - Jean Tirole, French economist
1956 - Dave Hereora, New Zealand politeecian (d. 2014)
1957 - Melanie Griffith, American actress
1961 - John Key, 38t Prime meenister o New Zealand
1962 - Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, German politeecian
1963 - Whitney Houston, American sangster an actress (d. 2012)
1968 - Gillian Anderson, American actress
1968 - Eric Bana, Australie actor
1972 - Juanes, Colombie sangster
1973 - Kevin McKidd, Scots actor
1976 - Audrey Tautou, French actress
1985 - Anna Kendrick, American actress
1988 - Willian, Brazilian fitbawer
1990 - Grant Gilchrist, Scots rugby union player

Daiths

378 - Valens, Roman Emperor (b. 328)
1804 - George Hay, 7t Marquess o Tweeddale, Scots peer (b. 1753)
1847 - Andrew Combe, Scots medicinar an phrenologist (b. 1797)
1909 - Jemima Blackburn, Scots penter (b. 1823)
1919 - Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist (b. 1834)
1919 - Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian componer (b. 1857)
1962 - Hermann Hesse, German writer (b. 1876)
1969 - Sharon Tate, American actress (b. 1943)
1975 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Roushie componer (b. 1906)
1996 - Frank Whittle, Inglis ingineer (b. 1907)
2008 - Bernie Mac, American actor (b. 1957)
2015 - Frank Gifford, American fitbaa player (b. 1930)

Halidays

Naitional Day o Singapore
Naitional Weemen's Day (Sooth Africae, Namibie)