A-Bomb... Nagasaki
also on Aug 9
* 480 BC Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Artemisium the Persians win a naval victory over the Greeks in an engagement fought near Artemisium, a promontory on the north coast of Euboea.
* 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 campanile of the cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete.
* 1329 Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.
* 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.
* 1814 Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
* 1842 The Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
* 1854 Henry David Thoreau published Walden.
* 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
* 1877 Indian Wars: Battle of Big Hole A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army.
* 1892 Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
* 1902 Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
* 1907 The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
* 1925 A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India
* 1930 Betty Boop made her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.
* 1936 Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.
* 1942 Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
* 1942 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.
* 1944 The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
* 1944 Continuation war: The VyborgPetrozavodsk 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.
* 1965 A fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
* 1969 Members of a cult led by Charles Manson brutally 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.
* 1971 The Troubles: The British security forces in Northern Ireland launch Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that follows.
* 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.
* 1977 The military-controlled Government of Uruguay announces that it will return the nation to civilian rule through general elections in 1981 for a President and Congress.
* 1988 Wayne Gretzky is traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial player transactions in ice hockey history, upsetting many Canadians so much that some considered him a "traitor" to his home country.
* 1993 The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
* 1999 Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
* 1999 The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru and Kimi Ga Yo as the official national flag and national anthem.
* 2001 US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
and deaths...
* 117 Trajan, Roman Emperor (b. 53)
* 378 Valens, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 328)
* 803 Irene of Athens, Byzantine Empress (b. 752)
* 833 Al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)
* 1048 Pope Damasus II (birth year unknown)
* 1107 Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
* 1173 Najm ad-Din Ayyub, Kurdish soldier and politician, father of Saladin (birth year unknown)
* 1250 King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216)
* 1534 Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (b. 1470)
* 1580 Metrophanes III, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1520)
* 1601 Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558)
* 1634 William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
* 1720 Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
* 1744 James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673)
* 1816 Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (b. 1771)
* 1837 Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
* 1886 Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
* 1910 Huo Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist (b. 1868)
* 1919 Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
* 1942 Edith Stein, German philosopher and nun (executed) (b. 1891)
* 1945 Harry Hillman, American runner (b. 1881)
* 1945 Robert Hampton Gray, last Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)
* 1946 Bert Vogler, South African cricketer (b. 1876)
* 1949 Edward Thorndike, American psychologist (b. 1874)
* 1957 Carl Clauberg, German Nazi doctor (b. 1898)
* 1962 Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss writer, Nobel Laureate (b. 1877)
* 1967 Joe Orton, English writer (b. 1933)
* 1969 Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1903)
* 1969 Abigail Folger, American heiress (murdered) (b. 1943)
* 1969 Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer (murdered) (b. 1936)
* 1969 Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933)
* 1969 Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered) (b. 1943)
* 1969 Steven Parent, American student (murdered) (b. 1951)
* 1974 Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
* 1975 Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
* 1979 Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (b. 1903)
* 1979 Raymond Washington, American gang leader, founder the Crips (b. 1953)
* 1980 Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (b. 1906)
* 1985 Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1927)
* 1988 Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
* 1988 Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
* 1990 Joe Mercer, English footballer (b. 1914)
* 1992 Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer (b. 1938)
* 1995 Jerry Garcia, American guitarist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1942)
* 1996 Sir Frank Whittle, British engineer and inventor of the jet engine (b. 1907)
* 1999 Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (b. 1910)
* 2000 John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born American economist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1920)
* 2000 Nicholas Markowitz, American teenager kidnapped and murdered by Jesse James Hollywood (b. 1984)
* 2002 Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (b. 1953)
* 2002 Peter Neville, British anarchist, sociologist and peace activist (birth year unknown)
* 2003 Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945)
* 2003 Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (b. 1946)
* 2003 Jacques Deray, French film director (b. 1929)
* 2003 Chester Ludgin, American baritone (b. 1925)
* 2004 Robert Lecourt, French politician, President of the European Court of Justice (b. 1908)
* 2004 Tony Mottola, American guitarist (b. 1918)
* 2004 David Raksin, American film composer (b. 1912)
* 2005 Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
* 2005 Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935)
* 2006 James Van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
* 2006 Philip E. High, science fiction author (b. 1914)
* 2007 Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer and photojournalist (b. 1922)
* 2008 Bernie Mac, American comedian (b. 1957)
* 2008 Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and writer (b. 1941)
* 2010 Ted Stevens, American politician (b. 1923)
8+9+1+9+8+1 = 36
August 9th 1981 minus 36 years was. . . *strikes dramatic chord, starts up fog machine*
Notice it's smoking in TWO places like the WTC did. =P
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edit* also i'm wondering why the statue of liberty is smoking?
and the one eyed logo at the end...
Quoting: ChildofTheNight Quoting: the darkness comesBORN 8-9-1981 -- i KNOW YOUR WEAKNESSES -- AND I KNOW MOST OF WHAT IS SAY IS CORRECT --- 2018 = 11
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1473956 Quoting: the darkness comes