Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 9
August 9: National Day for Singapore (1965)
- 48 BC - Julius Caesar defeated Pompey and the Senatorial forces in the Battle of Pharsalus.
- 1173 - The construction of a campanile which would eventually become the Leaning Tower of Pisa began.
- 1945 - USAAF bomber Bockscar dropped an atomic bomb named Fat Man, devastating Nagasaki, Japan.
- 1974 - The Watergate scandal: Richard Nixon became the first U.S. President to resign from office.
- 1988 - Wayne Gretzky was traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial player transactions in ice hockey history.