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August 9 is the 221st day of the year ... "Historical Events on August 9". OnThisDay.com. This page was last edited on 6 January 2025, at 21:24 ...
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August 15–17, 1969: Hundreds of thousands attend the Woodstock festival August 9–10, 1969: Charles Manson orders "Family" to carry out murders August 3, 1969: San Diego–Coronado Bridge opened August 17–19, 1969: Hurricane Camille kills 259. The following events occurred in August 1969:
American novelist Toni Morrison (pictured) dies at the age of 88.; India revokes the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and establishes Ladakh as a separate union territory.; In the United States, 32 people are killed and more than 50 others are injured during separate mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and in Dayton, Ohio.
In the first-ever breakdancing event at the Olympics, Ami Yuasa of Japan wins the B-Girls gold medal, with Dominika "Nicka" Banevič of Lithuania winning the silver and Liu "671" Qingyi of China winning the bronze. Concerns and controversies at the 2024 Summer Olympics
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively.The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and they remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.
9 August 9, 1939 (Wednesday) 10 ... The following events occurred in August 1939: August 1 ... Such an outcome would be a calamity without parallel in history."
The following events occurred in August 1929: Thursday, August 1, 1929 ... August 9, 1929 . Two people were ... the first all-women's race in aviation history, ...