August 9
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[edit] 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.
- 681 - Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube, after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.
- 1173 - Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete.
- 1810 - Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
- 1892 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
- 1902 - Edward VII is crowned king of the United Kingdom.
- 1945 - World War II: Nagasaki is devastated by an atomic bomb
- 1965 - Singapore seceded from Malaysia and gained independence.
- 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 - The groundwork for the creation of Metapedia begins in Sweden.
[edit] Births
- 1809 - William Barret Travis, commander at Battle of the Alamo
[edit] Deaths
- 117 - Trajan, Roman Emperor (b. 53)
- 378 - Valens, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 328)
