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August 9: Day of the Week
August 9, 2024 is the 222nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 144 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is viernes.
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Here’s the August calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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.
August 9 Historical Event(s)
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.
1483
Opening of the Sistine Chapel in Rome with the celebration of a Mass.
1810
Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
1854
Henry David Thoreau published Walden.
1925
A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India
1944
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.
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 is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the first and only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
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.
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?
1726
Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778)
1754
Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect, planner of Washington, D.C. (d. 1825)
1911
Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (d. 2001)
1914
Tove Jansson, Finnish author (d. 2001)
1921
J. James Exon, American politician (d. 2005)
1928
Dolores Wilson, American opera singer (d. 2010)
1946
Jim Kiick, American football player
1970
Chris Cuomo, American TV journalist
1970
Rod Brind'Amour, Canadian ice hockey player
1982
Tyson Gay, American sprinter
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