On This Day in History
August 9
Historical Events
48 BC Caesar's Civil War: Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey the Great at the Battle of Pharsalus, forcing Pompey to flee to Egypt
1898 Rudolf Diesel of Germany obtains patent #608,845 for his internal combustion engine, later known as the diesel engine
1942 Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others are arrested in Bombay after the passing of a "Quit India" motion and campaign by the All India Congress Committee
1945 US drops second atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Nagasaki, Japan, destroying part of the city
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1965 Singapore separates from the Federation of Malaysia and gains independence
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1974 Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States, and Vice President Gerald Ford takes the oath of office to become the 38th US President
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Famous Birthdays
Also Brett Hull (61)
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Famous Deaths
‘Dirty Rat’ Lets His Mother Die
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Before Abraham Lincoln was assassinated there was a plan to kidnap the President, which resulted on this day in the arrest of John Surratt, one of the plotters.
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