History Events on August 09

Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople: A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths. Valens is killed along with over half of his army.

#Gothic_War_(376-382)

The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.

#Red_Army

The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia.

#Anglo-Powhatan_Wars

At least 21 suspected terrorists were arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests were made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation.

#2006_transatlantic_aircraft_plot

Sources cite biggest caravan trade between Podvisoki and Republic of Ragusa in 1428. Vlachs committed to Ragusan lord Tomo Buni?, that they will with 600 horses deliver 1500 modius of salt. Delivery was meant for Dobrašin Veseokovi?, and Vlachs price was half of delivered salt.

#Caravan_(travellers)

Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.

#Henry_David_Thoreau

Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.

#Thomas_Edison

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.

#Webster-Ashburton_Treaty

The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.

#The_Troubles

Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.

#Napoleon

Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

#Edward_VII

World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200-28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.

#Nagasaki

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.

#Watergate_scandal

The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.

#Scouting

Continuation War: The Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.

#Continuation_War

The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.

#Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan)

Ottoman-Venetian War (1499-1503): The Ottomans capture Methoni, Messenia.

#Ottoman-Venetian_War_(1499-1503)

Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.

#Singapore

South Kasai secedes from the Congo.

#South_Kasai

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.

#World_War_II

220 million trees are planted in one day in Uttar Pradesh, India.

#Uttar_Pradesh

Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.

#Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Quilon

Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.

#Boris_Yeltsin

Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city.

#Ferguson,_Missouri

American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.

#American_Civil_War

Mars 7 is launched from the USSR.

#Mars_7

Followers of Charles Manson 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.

#Charles_Manson

LANSA Flight 502 crashes after take off from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco, Peru, killing 99 of the 100 people on board, as well as two people on the ground.

#LANSA_Flight_502

Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.

#Summer_Olympic_Games

Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.

#Battle_of_Mulhouse

The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.

#United_States_Forest_Service

Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.

#Betty_Boop

Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus: Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.

#Caesar's_Civil_War

Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30.

The Italian prosecuting magistrate Antonino Scopelliti is murdered by the 'Ndrangheta on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia while preparing the government's case in the final appeal of the Maxi Trial.

A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India.

Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole: A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army.

Louis Philippe becomes the king of the French following abdication of Charles X.

Indian Wars: The Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.

Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete.