August 9 historical events
48 BCE — Battle of Pharsalus
The Battle of Pharsalus was the decisive battle of Caesar's Civil War fought on 9 August 48 BC near Pharsalus in Central Greece. Julius Caesar and his allies formed up opposite the army of the Roman Republic under the command of Pompey. Pompey had the backing of a majority of Roman senators and his army significantly outnumbered the veteran Caesarian legions.
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378 — Battle of Adrianople
The Battle of Adrianople, also known as Battle of Hadrianopolis, was fought between the Eastern Roman army led by the Roman emperor Valens and Gothic rebels (largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alans, and various local rebels), led by Fritigern. The battle took place on 9 August 378 in the vicinity of Adrianople, in the Roman province of Thracia (modern Edirne in European Turkey).
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865 — Battle of the Morcuera
The Battle of the Morcuera, was a battle of the Spanish Reconquista that took place in the Hoz de la Morcuera between the municipalities of Foncea and Bugedo nearby the city of Miranda de Ebro on 9 August, 865. The battle was fought between the combined Christian troops of the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Asturias under Rodrigo of Castile and the UmayyadMuslim forces of the Emirate of Cordoba under Muhammad I of Córdoba.
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1062 — Battle of Niså
The Battle of Niså (Slaget ved Niså) was a naval battle fought on 9 August 1062 between the forces of Norwegian king Harald Hardrada and king Sweyn II of Denmark. Harald had claimed the Danish throne since 1047, and had launched raids into Denmark ever since. With his invasion in 1062, he wanted to decisively defeat the Danes, and thus finally be able to conquer Denmark. The battle was won clearly by the Norwegians, but since many Danes managed to escape, including Sweyn, it proved indecisive in Harald's attempt to conquer Denmark.
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1134 — Battle of Fyrileiv
The Battle of Fyrileiv was the first battle in the Norwegian Civil War. It was fought between the co-kings Magnus Sigurdsson and Harald Gille at the farm Fyrileiv in Ranrike (now Färlev in Stågenäs lordship in Bohuslen) on 9 August 1134. The battle is mentioned in Magnus Blindes and Harald Gilles saga in Snorre's Heimskringla, and in Fagrskinna.
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1173 — The foundations of Pisa’s bell tower are laid
On August 9, 1173, the foundations of the bell tower beside Pisa Cathedral were laid. The structure later became known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Construction proceeded in several stages over nearly two centuries, with the bell chamber added in 1372. This record concerns the tower, rather than the older cathedral itself.
August 9 marks the laying of the tower’s foundations, not the cathedral’s founding or the completion of the tower.
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1188 — Siege of al-Shughur
The siege of al-Shughur took place in August 1188 between the Ayyubid Sultanate led by Saladin and the Principality of Antioch, who held modern-day Jisr al-Shughur. Saladin captured the two forts, Shughr-Bakas, lying there.
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1201 — Battle of Calcinato (1201)
The Battle of Calcinato was a military engagement during the wars between the Guelphs and Ghibellines. It took place on 9 August 1201 near Calcinato, southeast of Brescia. The Ghibelline forces won.
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1329 — Pope John XXII establishes the Diocese of Quilon
On August 9, 1329, Pope John XXII established a Roman Catholic diocese at Quilon, now Kollam in Kerala, India. He appointed its first bishop, the Dominican friar Jordanus, in a separate decree later that month.
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1500 — Battle of Modon (1500)
The Battle of Modon, also known as the Second Battle of Lepanto, took place in August 1500 during the war of 1499–1503 between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. The Ottomans, who had won the Battle of Zonchio (First Battle of Lepanto / Battle of Sapienza) the previous year, were again victorious under Admiral Kemal Reis.
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1566 — Battle of Brobacka
The Battle of Brobacka was a battle fought in Alingsås between Sweden and Denmark, on August 9, 1566. The Swedish army under command of Charles de Mornay successfully managed to ambush Daniel Rantzau and his Danish army on their arrival back from their looting train in Västergötland, southwest of Sweden.
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1578 — Battle of Çıldır
The Battle of Çıldır was fought on 9 August 1578 during the Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–1590). The battle took place in Çıldır, about 150 km southwest of Tiflis, the capital of the Georgian Kingdom of Kartli.
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1598 — Battle of Herat (1598)
Battle of Herat took place on August 9, 1598, between the Shaybanid Khanate and the Safavid Empire for Khorasan and Balkh. The battle resulted in the complete defeat of the Uzbeks and Safavid Empire fully restored its power in Khorasan and got back the region.
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1610 — The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia
The Anglo–Powhatan Wars were three wars fought between settlers of the Colony of Virginia and the Powhatan Confederacy of Tsenacommacah in the early 17th century. The first war started in 1609 and ended in a peace settlement in 1614. The second war lasted from 1622 to 1632. The third war lasted from 1644 until 1646 and ended when Opechancanough was captured and killed.
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1638 — Battle of Wittenweiher
The Battle of Wittenweiher took place on August 9, 1638, near the village of Wittenweiher today: Wittenweier, a district of Schwanau, Baden-Württemberg, which was completely destroyed in the course of the battle.
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1640 — Siege of Arras (1640)
The siege of Arras took place from 22 June to 9 August 1640, during the Franco-Spanish War that had begun in 1635, a connected conflict of the Thirty Years' War. A French army besieged the Spanish-held town of Arras, capital of the province of Artois, then part of the Spanish Netherlands, which surrendered after holding out for 48 days.
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1644 — Battle of Freiburg
The Battle of Freiburg, also called the Three Day Battle, took place on 3, 5 and 9 August 1644 as part of the Thirty Years' War. The Bavarian army under Franz von Mercy captured the city of Freiburg on 28 July after a siege of 5 weeks. The French army under Louis II de Bourbon, Duc d'Enghien and marshal Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, tried to recapture it at three separate days. The battle was interrupted due to heavy rain.
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1674 — Chyhyryn campaign (1674)
The Chyhyryn campaign or Chigirin campaign was an unsuccessful siege conducted by the Russian-Cossack forces in order to oust Petro Doroshenko from power, along with Ottoman–Crimean forces on his side.
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1704 — Battle of Poznań (1704)
The Battle of Poznań was a battle that took place on August 9, 1704 in Poznań, Poland during the Great Northern War. The Swedes won the battle.
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1757 — Siege of Fort William Henry
The siege of Fort William Henry (3–9 August 1757, French: Bataille de Fort William Henry) was conducted by a French and Indian force led by Louis-Joseph de Montcalm against the British-held Fort William Henry. This fort, located at the southern end of Lake George, on the frontier between the British Province of New York and the French Province of Canada, was garrisoned by a poorly supported force of British regulars and provincial militia led by Lieutenant Colonel George Monro.
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1760 — Siege of Fort Loudoun
The siege of Fort Loudoun was an engagement during the Anglo-Cherokee War fought from February 1760 to August 1760 between the warriors of the Cherokee led by Ostenaco and the garrison of Fort Loudoun (in what is now Tennessee) composed of British and colonial soldiers commanded by Captain Paul Demeré.
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1780 — Action of 9 August 1780
The action of 9 August 1780 was a naval engagement during the American Revolutionary War and a part of the Anglo-French War (1778–1783) in which a Spanish fleet and French fleet, led by Admiral Luis de Córdova y Córdova, encountered a large British convoy. The Franco-Spanish force captured almost all the merchant vessels in the convoy, which dealt a severe blow to the commerce of Great Britain.
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1811 — Battle of Zújar
In the Battle of Zújar of the Peninsular War, part of the Napoleonic Wars, on 9 August 1811 an Imperial French division from Nicolas Soult's army attacked a Spanish division belonging to Manuel Alberto Freire de Andrade y Armijo's Army of Murcia. The French division, led by Nicolas Godinot, defeated Joseph O'Donnell's Spanish division with heavy losses. Zújar is located on Route 323, 13 kilometres (8 mi) northwest of Baza, Granada in Spain. Spanish armies under Freire and Joaquín Blake y Joyes threatened the French grip on the south of Spain during the summer of 1811.
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1812 — Battle of Maguaga
The Battle of Maguaga (also known as the Battle of Monguagon or the Battle of the Oakwoods) was a small battle between British troops, Canadian militia and Tecumseh's natives and a larger force of American troops near the Wyandot village of Maguaga in what is now the city of Riverview, Michigan.
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1814 — Treaty of Fort Jackson
The Treaty of Fort Jackson (also known as the Treaty with the Creeks, 1814) was signed on August 9, 1814 at Fort Jackson near Wetumpka, Alabama following the defeat of the Red Stick (Upper Creek) resistance by United States allied forces at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. It occurred on the banks of the Tallapoosa River near the present city of Alexander City, Alabama. The U.S. force, led by General Andrew Jackson, consisted mainly of the West Tennessee Militia and 39th United States Infantry, allied with several groups of Cherokee and Lower Creek friendly to the American side.
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1814 — Battle of Langnes
The Battle of Langnes, or the Battle of Langnes Entrenchment, was fought between Norway and Sweden as a part of the Swedish-Norwegian War of 1814. The battle, even as it ended inconclusively, served as a tactical victory to the Norwegians since they now could avoid an unconditional surrender to the Swedish.
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1826 — Battle of Kejiwan
The Battle of Kejiwan took place on 9 August 1826 during the Java War between rebel forces under Prince Diponegoro and a flying column of Dutch colonial and Mangkunegaran troops. The flying column, which had been pursuing Diponegoro during his march north, was defeated in a pitched battle, allowing Diponegoro to continue his march.
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1830 — Louis Philippe becomes the king of the French following abdication of Charles X
Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850), nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, the penultimate monarch of France, the last French monarch to bear the title "King", and the only French monarch to descend from the Orléans branch of the Bourbon family. He abdicated from his throne during the French Revolution of 1848, which led to the foundation of the French Second Republic.
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1842 — Webster–Ashburton Treaty
The Webster–Ashburton Treaty was a treaty that resolved several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies (the region that later became the Dominion of Canada). Negotiated in the US federal capital city of Washington, DC, it was signed August 9, 1842, under the new administration of US president John Tyler, who as the former vice president, had just recently succeeded and became chief executive upon the unexpected death of his running mate and predecessor, William Henry Harrison, who had only served a single month in office.
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1849 — Battle of Temesvár
The Battle of Temesvár (now Timişoara, in Romania) was a battle in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, fought on 9 August 1849 between the Austrian Empire and Hungarian Revolutionary Army supplemented by Polish volunteers. The Austrians were led by Julius Jacob von Haynau, while the Hungarians were led by Józef Bem who arrived at the eleventh hour from Transylvania. The Austrians were victorious. The Hungarians had only their southern division here, and although they had slightly more men than the Austrians, they lacked experience and good equipment.
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1849 — Siege of Temesvár (1849)
The siege of Temesvár (today: Timișoara, Romania) was a siege during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 between the Austrian Empire and Hungarian Revolutionary Army. The Hungarians unsuccessfully tried to capture the Timișoara Fortress. The siege ended with the Battle of Temesvár.
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1854 — American Transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau publishes his memoir Walden
Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument in favor of citizen disobedience against an unjust state.
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1855 — Bombardment of Sveaborg
The Bombardment of Sveaborg, also known as the Battle of Sveaborg, took place on 9–11 August 1855, between Russian defenders and a joint British–French fleet during the Åland War, a Baltic Sea theater of the Crimean War. British and French ships bombarded the Russian fortress of Sveaborg from beyond the range of the defenders' artillery. After 48 hours of bombardment, the attackers withdrew without attempting a landing.
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1862 — Battle of Cedar Mountain
The Battle of Cedar Mountain, also known as Slaughter's Mountain or Cedar Run, took place on August 9, 1862, in Culpeper County, Virginia, as part of the American Civil War. Union forces under Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks attacked Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson near Cedar Mountain as the Confederates marched on Culpeper Court House to forestall a Union advance into central Virginia. After nearly being driven from the field in the early part of the battle, a Confederate counterattack broke the Union lines resulting in a Confederate victory. The battle was the first combat of the Northern Virginia Campaign.
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1862 — First Battle of Donaldsonville
The First Battle of Donaldsonville took place on August 9, 1862, in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, as part of the Operations against Baton Rouge in the American Civil War. A number of incidents of artillery firing on Union steamers passing up and down the Mississippi River at Donaldsonville, Louisiana, influenced the U.S. Navy to undertake a retaliatory attack. Rear Adm. David G. Farragut sent the town notice of his intentions and suggested that the citizens send the women and children away. He then anchored in front of the town and fired upon it with guns and mortars.
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1864 — Battle of the Badlands
The Battle of the Badlands was fought in Dakota Territory, in what is now western North Dakota, between the United States army led by General Alfred Sully and the Lakota, Yanktonai, and the Dakota Indian tribes. The battle was fought August 7–9, 1864 between what are now Medora and Sentinel Butte, North Dakota. It was an extension of the conflict begun in the Dakota War of 1862.
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1877 — Battle of the Big Hole
The Battle of the Big Hole was fought in Montana, August 9–10, 1877, between the U.S. Army and the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans during the Nez Perce War. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. The Nez Perce withdrew in good order from the battlefield and continued their long fighting retreat that would result in their attempt to reach Canada and asylum.
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1892 — First Battle of Uruzgan
The First Battle of Uruzgan took place in Uruzgan on August 9, 1892 between the Uruzgani Hazaras and the Emirate of Afghanistan during the Hazara Uprisings. After enduring a month-long siege, Faiz Mohammad Khan ultimately surrendered to the Hazaras. The Hazaras then took control of the fort, massacred the Afghan troops inside, and hunted down the remaining survivors.
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1892 — Thomas Edison receives a patent for duplex telegraph improvements
Edison’s patent addressed a telegraph system that could send more than one message over the same line. His design changed how the sending keys and receiving equipment worked together.
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1897 — International Congress of Mathematicians
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the IMU Abacus Medal (known before 2022 as the Nevanlinna Prize), the Gauss Prize, the Leelavati Prize (since 2010) and the Chern Medal are awarded during the congress's opening ceremony.
The first International Congress of Mathematicians is held in Zürich, Switzerland.
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1898 — Battle of Fajardo
The Battle of Fajardo was an engagement between the armed forces of the United States and Spain that occurred on the night of August 8–9, 1898 near the end of the Puerto Rican Campaign during the Spanish–American War.
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1902 — Coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra
The coronation of Edward VII and his wife, Alexandra, as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 9 August 1902. Originally scheduled for 26 June of that year, the ceremony had been postponed at very short notice, because the King had been taken ill with an abdominal abscess that required immediate surgery.
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1905 — Japan and Russia open formal peace talks at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Japanese and Russian delegates met for the first formal session of talks to end the Russo-Japanese War. They convened in the naval stores building at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, across the river from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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1913 — Dervish forces defeat the Somaliland Camel Constabulary at Dul Madoba
A Dervish force defeated a British-led Somaliland Camel Constabulary unit at Dul Madoba. Its commander, Richard Corfield, was killed.
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1916 — Battle of Bir el Abd
The Battle of Bir el Abd or the Abd well (9 August 1916) was fought between the forces of the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire, during the Sinai and Palestine campaign of World War I. The battle took place in the Sinai Desert following the British victory at the Battle of Romani (3–5 August).
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1916 — Battle of Doiran (1916)
At the beginning of August 1916, three French and one British division with 45,000 men and 400 guns launched an offensive against the Bulgarian positions at Doiran Lake, defended by the 2nd Thracian Infantry Division. The attack began on 9 August with heavy artillery fire on the positions of the 27th Chepino Regiment and 9th Plovdiv Regiment.
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1917 — Birth of Jao Tsung-I
On 9 August 1917, Jao Tsung-I, a historian, was born.
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1921 — Battle of Annual
The Battle of Annual was fought on 22 July 1921 at Annual, in northeastern Morocco, between the Spanish Army and Riffian Berbers during the Rif War. The Spanish suffered a major military defeat, which is almost always referred to by the Spanish as the Disaster of Annual (Spanish: Desastre de Annual) which is widely considered to be the worst defeat ever suffered by the modern Spanish Army.
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1930 — The party was officially founded in the Shanghai French Concession on 9 August 1930 by left-wing members of the Kuomintang
The Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party (CPWDP), also known as the Peasants' and Workers' Party/PWP, is one of the eight minor non-oppositional political parties in the People's Republic of China, officially termed "democratic parties," led by the Chinese Communist Party. The party was officially founded in the Shanghai French Concession on 9 August 1930 by left-wing members of the Kuomintang.
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1936 — Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics
Owens ran on the American team that won the men’s 4 × 100 metre relay at the Berlin Olympics. He, Ralph Metcalfe, Foy Draper and Frank Wykoff finished in a world-record 39.8 seconds.
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1940 — Birmingham Blitz
The Birmingham Blitz was the heavy bombing by the Nazi German Luftwaffe of the city of Birmingham and surrounding towns in central England, beginning on 9 August 1940 as a fraction of the greater Blitz, which was part of the Battle of Britain; and ending on 23 April 1943. Situated in the Midlands, Birmingham, the most populous British city outside London, was considered an important industrial and manufacturing location.
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1941 — Operation Kosmaj
Operation Kosmaj, also known as the Blockade of Kosmaj or Operation Bader, was the first anti-guerrilla operation conducted by the Wehrmacht in occupied Serbia, aimed against the Yugoslav Partisans on Kosmaj mountain, near Belgrade. It took place from 7 to 9 August 1941, at the very beginning of the uprising in Serbia. The total number of German and Serbian troops engaged in the operation is roughly estimated between 3,000 and 8,000 soldiers and officers, supported by tanks.
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1942 — The Death Match
The Death Match (Ukrainian: Матч смерті, Russian: Матч смерти) is a name given in postwar Soviet historiography to the football match played on 9 August 1942 in Kiev in Reichskommissariat Ukraine following the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The Kiev city team Start (Cyrillic: Старт), which represented the city's Bread Factory No. 1, played several football games in World War II.
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1942 — 1942 Cupa României final
The 1942 Cupa României final was the 9th final of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition. It was disputed between Universitatea Cluj-Sibiu and Rapid București, and was won by Rapid București after a game with 8 goals. It was the seventh cup for Rapid, and the sixth out of six consecutive successes.
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1942 — Battle of Savo Island
The Battle of Savo Island, also known as the First Battle of Savo Island and in Japanese sources as the First Battle of the Solomon Sea (第一次ソロモン海戦, Dai-ichi-ji Soromon Kaisen), and colloquially among Allied Guadalcanal veterans as the Battle of the Five Sitting Ducks, was a naval battle during the Solomon Islands campaign of the Pacific War of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval forces.
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1942 — Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo
The Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo was a land battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, between the forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied (mainly United States Marine Corps) ground forces. It took place 7–9 August 1942 on the Solomon Islands, during the initial Allied landings in the Guadalcanal campaign.
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1942 — Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony premieres in Leningrad
On August 9, 1942, the Leningrad Radio Committee orchestra gave the city’s first performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony during the siege. Karl Eliasberg conducted at the Philharmonic’s Great Hall.
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1944 — Battle for Hill 140
The Battle for Hill 140 was fought on 9 August 1944 as part of Operation Totalize between a battle group from the 4th Canadian Division and German troops, mainly from the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend". It occurred several miles east of the village of Estrées-la-Campagne, when, during a night attack, the Canadian troops strayed east from the axis of advance, occupying the wrong area on a forward slope.
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1944 — Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive
The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive or Karelian offensive was a strategic operation by the Soviet Leningrad and Karelian Fronts against Finland on the Karelian Isthmus and East Karelia fronts of the Continuation War, on the Eastern Front of World War II. The Soviet forces captured East Karelia and Vyborg/Viipuri. After that, however, the fighting reached a stalemate.
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1944 — The U.S. Forest Service introduces Smokey Bear
A U.S. Forest Service task force and its partners chose Smokey Bear to promote the prevention of forest fires. The bear appeared in an illustrated campaign showing that people could prevent fires through care.
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1945 — Soviet forces begin their invasion of Manchuria
Soviet forces began their invasion of Japanese-held Manchuria on 9 August 1945, following the Soviet declaration of war on Japan the previous day. The offensive opened on three fronts. This entry records the start of the invasion in local time, rather than the declaration of war.
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1945 — 1945 IFA Shield final
The 1945 IFA Shield final was the 53rd final of the IFA Shield, the second oldest football competition in India, and was contested between Kolkata giants East Bengal and Mohun Bagan on 9 August 1945 at the Calcutta Ground in Kolkata. East Bengal won the final 1–0 to claim their 2nd IFA Shield title.
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1945 — Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, during the final days of World War II. The aerial bombings killed 150,000 to 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the first and only uses of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.
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1949 — Lanzhou Campaign
The Lanzhou Campaign was a series of battles fought between the nationalists and the communists for the control of the largest city in northwestern China during the Chinese Civil War in the post-World War II era, and resulted in a communist victory.
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1949 — Campaign to Suppress Bandits in Eastern China
The Campaign to Suppress Bandits in Eastern China was a counter-guerrilla / counterinsurgency campaign the communists fought against the nationalist guerrilla that was mostly consisted of bandits and nationalist regular troops left behind after the nationalist government withdrew from mainland China. The campaign resulted in communist victory.
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1950 — Battle of Nanpeng Island
The Battle of Nanpeng Island (Chinese: 南鵬島戰鬥) was fought between the Chinese Nationalists and the Chinese Communists. After Guangdong fell into communist hands, a detachment of the Nationalist troops held out on Nanpeng Island of Yangjiang. This remnant of the Nationalist forces proved to be a major headache the Communists because the island is strategically located between the Pearl River mouth and the Qiongzhou Strait, controlling the shipping line that was vital to the local economy. The Communists decided to rid of the Nationalist forces and take the island. In the morning of 9 August 1950, the third battalion of the 364th regiment of the 41st Army of the People's Liberation Army attacked the island.
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1955 — Workers discover the Lei Cheng Uk Han tomb in Hong Kong
Construction workers in Sham Shui Po uncovered a brick tomb dating to the Han period. It was later preserved as a museum site.
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1965 — Singapore becomes independent
On August 9, 1965, Singapore separated from Malaysia and became an independent republic. The proclamation of independence was broadcast on Radio Singapore that morning.
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1966 — Singapore holds its first National Day Parade
Singapore marked its first anniversary of independence with a parade at the Padang. The event began an annual tradition for the city-state.
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1970 — LANSA Flight 502
LANSA Flight 502 was a Lockheed L-188A Electra operated by Líneas Aéreas Nacionales Sociedad Anónima (LANSA) which crashed shortly after takeoff from Quispiquilla Airport near Cusco, Peru, on August 9, 1970, after losing all power from one of its four engines. The turboprop airliner, registered OB-R-939, was bound from Cusco to Lima, carrying 8 crew and 92 passengers.
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1971 — Operation Demetrius
Operation Demetrius was a British Army operation in Northern Ireland on 9–10 August 1971, during the Troubles. It involved the mass arrest and internment (imprisonment without trial) of people suspected of being involved with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), which was waging an armed campaign for a united Ireland against the British state. It was proposed by the Unionist government of Northern Ireland and approved by the British Government.
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1973 — The Soviet Union launches the Mars 7 spacecraft
Mars 7 lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with a landing probe. The probe later separated from the main spacecraft but missed Mars.
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1974 — Accession of Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977. He assumed the presidency after the resignation of Richard Nixon, under whom he served as the 40th vice president from 1973 to 1974 after the resignation of Spiro Agnew.
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1975 — 1975 FA Charity Shield
The 1975 FA Charity Shield was the 53rd FA Charity Shield, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's First Division and FA Cup competitions. The match was played on 9 August 1975 at Wembley Stadium and contested by Derby County, who had won the 1974–75 First Division, and West Ham United, who had won the 1974–75 FA Cup.
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1976 — Operation Eland
Operation Eland, also known as the Nyadzonya Raid, was a pre-emptive strike carried out by operatives of the Rhodesian Selous Scouts at Nyadzonya in Mozambique on 9 August 1976. The Rhodesians claimed 300 ZANLA and 30 FAM (Armed Forces of Mozambique) soldiers were killed; documentation captured after the event suggested that 1,028 were killed.
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1979 — Mohammad Hidayatullah is elected vice president of India unopposed
On August 9, 1979, Mohammad Hidayatullah was declared elected unopposed as vice president of India. The scheduled August 27 poll was unnecessary, and he took office on August 31.
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1980 — 1980 FA Charity Shield
The 1980 FA Charity Shield was the 58th FA Charity Shield, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's Football League and FA Cup competitions. The match took place on 9 August 1980 at Wembley Stadium and was played between 1979–80 Football League champions Liverpool and FA Cup winners West Ham United.
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1983 — Operation Dawn 3
Operation Dawn 3 or Operation Valfajr-3 (Arabic: عملیه الفجر-۳) was an operation during the Iran–Iraq War. The operation was launched in the range of "semi-extensive operation" located in the general area of Mehran (in Ilam Province); and eventually led to the liberation of Mehran by Iranian forces.
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1986 — A Hot Summer Night II
A Hot Summer Night II was a professional wrestling supercard produced by NWA Polynesian Pro Wrestling (NWA-PPW), which took place on August 9, 1986, at the Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. Like the original show, this was an interpromotional event and featured representatives from All Star Pro Wrestling, the Continental Wrestling Association, Championship Wrestling from Florida, New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Stampede Wrestling.
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1988 — 1988 Illinois's 21st congressional district special election
A special election to the United States House of Representatives for Illinois's 21st congressional district was held August 9, 1988. The winning candidate would serve briefly in the United States House of Representatives to represent Illinois in the 100th Congress until the general election on November 8, 1988.
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1989 — Lam Tin station opens for passenger service
Lam Tin station in Hong Kong began passenger service on August 9, 1989. It was built as part of the MTR Kwun Tong line's extension to Quarry Bay. Escalators link the station with the nearby hillside community of Lam Tin.
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1991 — Battle of Ventersdorp
The Battle of Ventersdorp on 9 August 1991 was a violent confrontation in the South African town of Ventersdorp between right wing supporters of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and the South African Police and security forces. Though technically not a "battle", it became known as such in the media while official sources such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) simply refer to it as an "incident". Much of its notoriety lies in the fact that it was the first time in the 43 years of apartheid that police officers killed white protesters.
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1991 — Italian prosecutor Antonino Scopelliti is murdered
Italian prosecutor Antonino Scopelliti was ambushed and killed in Calabria on 9 August 1991. He had been preparing the prosecution’s case for the final Supreme Court appeal in the Maxi Trial against the Sicilian Mafia.
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1991 — First Battle of Elephant Pass
The First Battle of Elephant Pass (Codenamed Operation Aakaya Kadal Veli, which means 'Air-Sea-Land' by LTTE) was fought in July 1991 for the control of the Sri Lankan military base of Elephant Pass, which was of strategic importance as it linked the northern mainland known as Wanni with the Jaffna Peninsula. The battle was fought between troops of the Sri Lankan army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, commonly known as LTTE.
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1995 — Aviateca Flight 901
Aviateca Flight 901 was a scheduled international passenger flight which crashed into the 7,159-foot (2,182 m) San Vicente volcano in El Salvador of a Boeing 737-200 on approach to the Comalapa International Airport on 9 August 1995. The accident killed all 65 passengers and crew on board and is the deadliest aviation disaster to occur in El Salvador.
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1995 — Netscape shares begin trading on Nasdaq
Netscape Communications went public at an offering price of $28 a share. Its shares traded well above the offering price on their first day, drawing attention to the emerging commercial internet.
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1997 — Born to Be Wired
Born to Be Wired was a professional wrestling live event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) on August 9, 1997. The event was held in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. Excerpts from Born to Be Wired aired on episodes #225 and #226 of the syndicated television program ECW Hardcore TV on August 12 and August 19, 1997, while the full event was released on VHS in 1997 and on DVD in 2002.
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1997 — Road Wild (1997)
The 1997 Road Wild was the second Road Wild professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the first to be produced under the Road Wild name. It took place on August 9, 1997 from the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. In the main event, Hollywood Hogan defeated Lex Luger to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, which marked for the second straight year that Hogan won the title at the event.
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1998 — 1998 FA Charity Shield
The 1998 Football Association Charity Shield (also known as The AXA FA Charity Shield for sponsorship reasons) was the 76th FA Charity Shield, an annual English football match organised by The Football Association and played between the winners of the previous season's Premier League and FA Cup competitions. It was contested on 9 August 1998 by Arsenal – who won a league and FA Cup double the previous season – and Manchester United – who finished as runners-up in the league.
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1999 — 1999 Liberal Democrats leadership election
The 1999 Liberal Democrats leadership election was called following the resignation of Paddy Ashdown as Leader of the Liberal Democrats. There were five candidates and all members of the party were balloted using the Alternative Vote preference system. The election was won by Charles Kennedy, who served as leader until his resignation in 2006.
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2001 — Beijing doctors perform China’s first remotely controlled robotic brain surgery
A doctor at Beijing’s Navy General Hospital guided a robot during brain surgery from another building. The hospital and Beihang University had developed the equipment together.
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2002 — Leyenda de Plata (2002)
The Leyenda de Plata (2002) was professional wrestling tournament produced by the Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLLl; Spanish "World Wrestling Council") that ran from July 26, 2002, over the course of three of CMLL's Friday night shows in Arena México with the finals on August 9, 2002. The annual Leyenda de Plata tournament is held in honor of lucha libre legend El Santo and is one of CMLL's most important annual tournaments.
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2003 — WEC 7
WEC 7: This Time It's Personal was a mixed martial arts event promoted by World Extreme Cagefighting on August 9, 2003 at the Palace Indian Gaming Center in Lemoore, California. The main event saw Ron Waterman takes on James Nevarez to decide WEC's inaugural Super Heavyweight Champion.
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2007 — Air Moorea Flight 1121
Air Moorea Flight 1121 was a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter which crashed into the ocean shortly after takeoff from Moorea Airport on Moorea Island in French Polynesia on 9 August 2007 killing all 20 people on board. It was bound for Tahiti's Faaʻa International Airport on a regular 7-minute service, one of the shortest in the world, scheduled 40 times a day.
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2008 — UFC 87
UFC 87: Seek and Destroy was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on August 9, 2008, at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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2008 — 2008 Northern Territory general election
General elections were held in the Northern Territory of Australia on 9 August 2008. Of the 25 seats in the Legislative Assembly, 23 were contested; two safe Labor seats were uncontested. The incumbent centre-left Labor Party (ALP), led by Chief Minister Paul Henderson won a narrow third term victory against the opposition centre-right Country Liberal Party (CLP), led by Terry Mills.
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2008 — 2008 Belgian Super Cup
The 2008 Belgian Super Cup was a football match played between 2007–08 Belgian First Division winners Standard Liège and 2007–08 Belgian Cup winners Anderlecht. Standard won 3–1, denying Anderlecht a third-straight Super Cup win.
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2008 — Battles in the Liakhvi Gorge
The Battles in the Liakhvi Gorge were fought between Russian and Georgian forces during the Russo-Georgian War. The battle began with the entry of Russian troops into the territory of South Ossetia through the Roki Tunnel after 2008 Caucasus exercises. After the end of the battle, units of the Ossetian militia army burned several villages located in the Georgian enclave north of Tskhinvali.
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2009 — Bloodymania III
Bloodymania III was a professional wrestling event produced by Juggalo Championship Wrestling (JCW), which took place at midnight on August 9, 2009 at Hog Rock in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois. Professional wrestling is a type of sports entertainment in which theatrical events are combined with a competitive sport. The buildup to the matches and the scenarios that took place before, during, and after the event, were planned by JCW's script writers. The event starred wrestlers from Juggalo Championship Wrestling, as well as guest wrestlers from the independent circuit. Unlike the first two events, Bloodymania III did not feature a buildup from a season of JCW's SlamTV!
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2009 — 2009 FA Community Shield
The 2009 FA Community Shield (also known as The FA Community Shield sponsored by McDonald's for sponsorship reasons) was the 87th FA Community Shield, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Premier League and FA Cup competitions. The match was contested at Wembley Stadium, London, on 9 August 2009, and contested by 2008–09 Premier League champions Manchester United, and Chelsea as the winners of the 2008–09 FA Cup, a repeat of the 2007 match.
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2009 — WEC 42
WEC 42: Torres vs. Bowles was a mixed martial arts event held by World Extreme Cagefighting on August 9, 2009, at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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2009 — 2009 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
The 2009 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was the 31st edition of the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, the annual Portuguese football season-opening match contested by the winners of the previous season's top league and cup competitions (or cup runner-up in case the league- and cup-winning club is the same). The match was contested by the 2008–09 Primeira Liga winners, Porto and the 2008–09 Taça de Portugal runners-up, Paços de Ferreira, as Porto also won the Taça de Portugal in the same season.
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2010 — Rwandan presidential election, 2010
Presidential elections were held in Rwanda on 9 August 2010, the second since the Rwandan Civil War. Incumbent President Paul Kagame of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) was re-elected for a second term.
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2011 — 2011 Msallata clashes
The 2011 Msallata clashes were a series of clashes in the Libyan Civil War between rebel anti-Gaddafi forces and loyalist pro-Gaddafi forces for control of the town of Msallata which took place in early August 2011.
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2012 — Shannon Eastin becomes the first woman to officiate an NFL game
Shannon Eastin was the line judge in a preseason game between the San Diego Chargers and Green Bay Packers. The Chargers won 21–13 in San Diego.
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2013 — 9 August 2013 Quetta shooting
On 9 August 2013, four gunmen opened fire at a mosque in Quetta, Pakistan while people were exiting the mosque. As a result, at least ten people were killed and thirty more people were injured. It is suspected that the target in the shooting was former Pakistan Peoples Party minister Ali Madad Jatak. This shooting occurred during the time when many Pakistani citizens were celebrating Eid al-Fitr.
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2014 — World Series of Fighting 12: Palomino vs Gonzalez
World Series of Fighting 12: Palomino vs. Gonzalez was a mixed martial arts event held on August 9, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The event also aired on NBCSN.
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2014 — 2014 Osun State gubernatorial election
The 2014 Osun State gubernatorial election occurred in Nigeria on 9 August 2014, the APC nominee Rauf Aregbesola won re-election, defeating Iyiola Omisore of the PDP. Rauf Aregbesola emerged APC after he was returned as the sole candidate. He picked Titilayo Laoye-Tomori as his running mate. Iyiola Omisore was the PDP candidate with Adejare Bello as his running mate. 20 candidates contested in the election.
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2014 — 2014 Algerian Super Cup
The 2014 Algerian Super Cup is the 8th edition of Algerian Super Cup, a football match contested by the winners of the Ligue 1 and 2013–14 Algerian Cup competitions. The match was played on 9 August 2014 at Mustapha Tchaker Stadium in Blida. Algerian Cup winners MC Alger defeated Ligue 1 winners USM Alger with a score of 1-0.
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2014 — Operation Shader
Operation Shader is the operational code name given to the contribution of the United Kingdom in its war against the Islamic State. The operation involved the British Army providing ground support and training to allied forces fighting against IS, the Royal Air Force providing humanitarian aid airdrops, reconnaissance and airstrikes, and the Royal Navy providing reconnaissance and airstrikes from the UK carrier strike group and escort to allied carrier battle groups.
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2015 — Triplemanía XXIII
Triplemanía XXIII was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) produced by the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) promotion. It took place on August 9, 2015, at Arena Ciudad de México in Mexico City, Mexico. The event was the twenty-third year in a row that AAA has held a Triplemanía show, and was the thirtieth show held under the Triplemanía name since 1993 as AAA held multiple Triplemanía shows some years. The annual Triplemanía show is AAA's biggest show of the year, serving as the culmination of major storylines and feature wrestlers from all over the world competing in what has been described as AAA's version of WrestleMania or their Super Bowl event.
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2015 — 2015 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
The 2015 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was the 37th edition of the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira. It took place on 9 August 2015, and it featured the winners of the 2014–15 Primeira Liga, Benfica, and the winners of the 2014–15 Taça de Portugal, Sporting CP. This edition was sponsored by Vodafone and was known as 2015 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira Vodafone.
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2016 — 2016 Saenuri Party leadership election
The Saenuri Party held a leadership election on 9 August 2016. The election was to elect a new party leader after the 2016 legislative election defeat. The new leader, Lee Jung-Hyun, was the first leader from the Honam region in the history of South Korean conservative parties.
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2016 — 2016 UEFA Super Cup
The 2016 UEFA Super Cup was the 41st edition of the UEFA Super Cup, an annual football match organised by UEFA and contested by the reigning champions of the two main European club competitions, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. The match featured Real Madrid, the winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League, and Sevilla, the winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League. It was played at the Lerkendal Stadion in Trondheim, Norway, on 9 August 2016.
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2017 — 2017 Bulgarian Supercup
The 2017 Bulgarian Supercup was the 14th Bulgarian Supercup, an annual Bulgarian football match played between the winners of the previous season's First Professional Football League and Bulgarian Cup. The game was played between the champions of the 2016-17 First League, Ludogorets Razgrad, and the 2017 Bulgarian Cup winners, Botev Plovdiv. This was Ludogorets's fifth Bulgarian Supercup appearance and Botev's second.
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2019 — CMLL Universal Amazons Championship (2019)
The CMLL Universal Amazons Championship (2019) (Spanish: Campeonato Universal de Amazonas) is a professional wrestling tournament produced and scripted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; "World Wrestling Council"). The tournament started on August 2, 2019, and ran for three Super Viernes shows with the final held on August 14, 2019, at Arena México in Mexico City, Mexico. 2019 marked the first year that CMLL held a women's version of their annual Universal Championship tournament, with the intention to make the Universal Amazons Championship an annual event as well.
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2020 — 70th Anniversary Grand Prix
The 70th Anniversary Grand Prix (officially known as the Emirates Formula 1 70th Anniversary Grand Prix 2020) was a one-off Formula One motor race held on 9 August 2020 at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone, United Kingdom, the second of two back to back races at the venue, after the 2020 British Grand Prix seven days earlier. The race was the fifth round of the rescheduled 2020 Formula One World Championship.
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2020 — 2020 Belarusian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Belarus on Sunday, 9 August 2020. Early voting began on 4 August and ran until 8 August. Incumbent Alexander Lukashenko was announced by the Central Election Commission (CEC) to have won a sixth term in office, crediting him with just over 80% of the vote. Lukashenko has won every presidential election since 1994, with all but the first being labelled by international monitors as neither free nor fair.
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2021 — The Tampere light rail officially starts operating
The Tampere light rail (Finnish: Tampereen raitiotie), branded as Tampere Tram (Finnish: Tampereen Ratikka), is a public transport system in Tampere, Finland. In November 2016, the Tampere city council approved plans to construct a 330-million-euro light rail system on the route from the city centre to Hervanta and to the Tampere University Hospital. Traffic on the first two lines of the route (lines 1 and 3) began on 9 August 2021.
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2022 — 2022 Saky air base attack
The 2022 Saky air base attack was an event during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when several large explosions occurred at the Saky airbase in the town of Novofedorivka, Crimea, on 9 August 2022. The military base was seized by Russian forces during the 2014 annexation of Crimea, part of the Russo-Ukrainian War. The explosions destroyed a number of Russian warplanes and caused substantial other damage.
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2022 — 2022 Kenyan general election
General elections were held in Kenya on 9 August 2022. Voters elected the president, governors, senators, members of the National Assembly, and members of county assemblies. This was the third general election and the fourth presidential one since the promulgation of the 2010 constitution. Incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta was not eligible for a third term according to the constitution, nor county governors who had served two terms.
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2022 — 2022 Minnesota's 1st congressional district special election
The 2022 Minnesota's 1st congressional district special election was a special election held on August 9, 2022. The seat became vacant when incumbent Republican representative Jim Hagedorn died on February 17, 2022, from kidney cancer. A primary was held on May 24, 2022, with the special election being held eleven weeks later, on August 9, alongside state primaries for other races.
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2023 — 2023 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
The 2023 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was the 45th edition of the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira. It was played between the winners of the 2022–23 Primeira Liga, Benfica, and the winners of the 2022–23 Taça de Portugal, Porto, on 9 August 2023. Benfica won the match 2–0 to secure their 9th Supertaça title.
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2024 — Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament final
The 2024 Summer Olympic football gold medal match was a football match to determine the gold medal winners of men's football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics. The match was the 26th final of the men's football tournament at the Olympics, a quadrennial tournament contested by the men's under-23 national teams of the member associations of FIFA to decide the Olympic champions. The match was held at Parc des Princes in Paris, France, on 9 August 2024.
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2024 — Voepass Flight 2283
Voepass Flight 2283 was a scheduled domestic Brazilian passenger flight from Cascavel to Guarulhos. On August 9, 2024, the ATR 72 serving the flight crashed in Vinhedo, São Paulo State. The aircraft was flying at an altitude of 17,000 ft (5,200 m) prior to stalling and entering a flat spin with a rapid descent at around 13:21 BRT. All 62 people on board died.
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2024 — August 2024 Khan Yunis incursion
Israeli forces launched an incursion into Khan Yunis on 9 August 2024 as part of their invasion of the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war. The battle represented the third separate ground operation in Khan Yunis by Israel against Hamas-led Palestinian forces, following the first siege and a brief incursion in the city.
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2025 — PFL Africa 2 (2025)
PFL Africa 2 was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Professional Fighters League that took place on August 9, 2025, at Big Top Arena in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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2025 — UFC on ESPN: Dolidze vs. Hernandez
UFC on ESPN: Dolidze vs. Hernandez (also known as UFC on ESPN 72 and UFC Vegas 109) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on August 9, 2025, at the UFC Apex in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Valley, United States.
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2025 — 2025 Vietnamese Super Cup
The 2025 Vietnamese Super Cup (Vietnamese: Siêu Cúp bóng đá Quốc gia 2025), also known as 2024–25 Vietnamese Super Cup - THACO Cup (Vietnamese: Siêu Cúp bóng đá Quốc gia 2024/25 – Cúp THACO) was the 26th Vietnamese Super Cup, an annual association football match contested by the winners of the previous season's V.League 1 and Vietnamese Cup competitions. It was played at Thiên Trường Stadium in Ninh Bình on 9 August 2025, and was featured the 2024–25 V.League 1 winners Thep Xanh Nam Dinh and the 2024–25 Vietnamese Cup winners Cong An Hanoi.
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2025 — 2025 Thai League Charity Match
The 2025 Thai League Charity Match (Thai: ไทยลีก แชริตี้ แมตช์) was the inaugural edition of the fixture, introduced by the Football Association of Thailand (FA Thailand) as a new curtain-raiser for the domestic football season. Unlike its predecessors, the Kor Royal Cup and the Thailand Champions Cup, the Charity Match was established as an entirely new competition rather than a continuation or rebranding of earlier events. The match was played on 9 August 2025, contested between Uthai Thani, who had finished ninth in the 2024–25 Thai League 1, and Chonburi, the 2024–25 Thai League 2 champions, at the True BG Stadium in Thanyaburi, Pathum Thani.
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2025 — Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival
The Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival is a film festival annually held in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, every August. It screens films with a curatorial focus on Black storytelling. In addition to films, the festival hosts panels like the Color of Conversations series and throws events such as the annual White Party, Director’s Brunch, the Black Excellence Brunch, and the Women's C-Suite lunches.
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