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Events on August 9

• 1173 The cornerstone for the Campanile beside Pisa Cathedral is laid. The tower is later known as the “Leaning Tower of Pisa”.
• 1803 On the Seine in Paris, the American inventor Robert Fulton demonstrates the steamship Clermont. However, Napoleon Bonaparte does not believe that steam propulsion has a future.
• 1890 The island of Heligoland is handed over by the British to German administration.
• 1896 The aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal crashes during a flight in Stölln on Gollenberg in Havelland and dies the following day from his injuries.
• 1945 Bombing of Nagasaki: Due to heavy cloud cover, the second atomic bomb of the Second World War, Fat Man, is not dropped over the original target of Kokura, but over the Mitsubishi weapons factory near Nagasaki. 70,000 people are killed instantly.
• 1965 After Singapore's departure from the Federation of Malaya on 7 August, Singapore's independence from Malaysia is recognized against the wishes of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. 9 August is subsequently declared Singapore's National Day.
• 1969 The American actress Sharon Tate, wife of the Polish film director Roman Polański, is murdered while heavily pregnant, together with four friends, by members of the Charles Manson Family in her home.
• 1974 Richard Nixon resigns as the first President of the United States in order to forestall an imminent impeachment.
• 1999 The Russian President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin appoints the head of the domestic intelligence service, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, as Prime Minister.
• 2004 With the registration of its internet domain, the free geodata project OpenStreetMap is born.
• 2007 The European Central Bank (ECB) reacts as the first central bank to the financial crisis originating from the US mortgage market and provides banks with liquidity on an unprecedented scale; this is after interbank trading in the eurozone has collapsed due to a lack of trust.
• 2024 In the crash of VoePass Linhas Aéreas Flight 2283 northwest of São Paulo, Brazil, all 58 passengers and four crew members are killed.

Born on August 9

• 1881 Adele Bloch-Bauer, Austrian businesswoman and model of Gustav Klimt
• 1904 Hasso von Boehmer, German officer on the general staff, resistance fighter of 20 July 1944
• 1910 Robert van Gulik, Dutch crime writer
• 1920 Hans Brox, German civil law scholar, judge of the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1931 Mário Zagallo, Brazilian football player and coach
• 1940 Marie-Luise Marjan, German actress
• 1941 Peter Hartz, German manager
• 1961 Brad Gilbert, American tennis player
• 1972 Juanes, Colombian singer, songwriter and guitarist
• 1990 Bill Skarsgård, Swedish actor

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „9. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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