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What are the important events that happened on August 9? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 9: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 9 is the 222nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 144 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 27, 2020 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 443,592 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaicosadigon’ day.
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Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 187 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 2,788 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 9 Historical Events
- 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.
- 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.
- 1999 –Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
- 2006 –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, Buckinghamshire, in an overnight operation.
Who were born on August 9?
- 1919 –Ralph Houk, American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)
- 1961 –Amy Stiller, American actress
- 1974 –Stephen Fung, Hong Kong actor and director
- 1983 –Shane O'Brien, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1991 –Hansika Motwani, Indian actress
Who died on August 9?
- 833 –Al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)
- 1580 –Metrophanes III, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1520)
- 1988 –Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
- 2004 –David Raksin, American film composer (b. 1912)
- 2004 –Robert Lecourt, French politician, President of the European Court of Justice (b. 1908)
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