August 9: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
Leaning Tower of Pisa
- 1173 – Construction began on a campanile, which would eventually become the Leaning Tower of Pisa (pictured).
- 1877 – Nez Perce War: Both Nez Perce and United States Army sides suffered numerous casualties as they fought to a stalemate in the Battle of the Big Hole.
- 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1965 – Malaysia expelled the state of Singapore from its federation due to heated ideological conflict between their respective ruling parties.
- 2006 – British police arrested 24 people for conspiring to detonate liquid explosives carried on board at least 10 airliners travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States and Canada.
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