Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 9
August 9: Independence day for Singapore (1965)
- 48 BC - Julius Caesar defeated Pompey and the Senatorial forces at the Battle of Pharsalus and solidified his control over the Mediterranean world
- 1173 - Construction of the (Leaning) Tower of Pisa began — It was not leaning back then.
- 1945 - The atomic bomb Fat Man was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan.
- 1974 - Richard Nixon became the first U.S. President to resign from office, due to his role in the Watergate scandal.
- 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.