August 9: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples; Qixi Festival (Chinese calendar, 2016)
Leaning Tower of Pisa
- 1173 – Construction began on a campanile, which would eventually become the Leaning Tower of Pisa (pictured).
- 1914 – World War I: France launched its first attack of the war in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the province of Alsace from Germany.
- 1945 – World War II: USAAF bomber Bockscar dropped an atomic bomb named "Fat Man", devastating Nagasaki, Japan.
- 1971 – The Troubles: British authorities began arresting and interning (without trial) people accused of being republican paramilitary members.
- 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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