Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 9

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This is a list of selected August 9 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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  • Leaning Tower of Pisa
    Leaning Tower of Pisa
  • First Smokey Bear poster
    First Smokey Bear poster
  • Replica of the original Fat Man atomic bomb
    Replica of the original Fat Man atomic bomb
  • Interior of the Sistine Chapel
    Interior of the Sistine Chapel
  • North and east walls of the Sistine Chapel
    North and east walls of the Sistine Chapel
  • Sharon Tate
    Sharon Tate
  • Richard Nixon
    Richard Nixon
  • Resignation letter of Richard Nixon
    Resignation letter of Richard Nixon
  • Flag of Singapore
  • Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki
    Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki

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Blurb Reason
National Day in Singapore (1965); refimprove
Optimates at the Battle of Pharsalus, solidifying his control over the Roman Republic
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needs more footnotes, unreferenced sections
378 – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens was destroyed by the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. unreferenced section
1173 – Construction began on a campanile that eventually became known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Unreffed statements, page number
1483 – The first mass in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City was celebrated. refimprove
1842 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty was signed, clarifying the Canada–United States border between Lake Superior and the Lake of the Woods, and the location of the MaineNew Brunswick border. refimprove section
1854Henry David Thoreau published Walden, his account of having spent two years living mostly in isolation on the shores of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. refimprove section
Eileen Gray |b|1878 missing page numbers

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Notes

August 9: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples; National Women's Day in South Africa (1956)

Sharon Tate
Sharon Tate
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