History for August 9 - On-This-Day.com
Jean Piaget 1896, David Steinberg 1942, Sam Elliott 1944
Melanie Griffith 1957, Whitney Houston 1963, Gillian Anderson 1968
1945 - The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The bombing came three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. About 74,000 people were killed. Japan surrendered August 14.
1974 - U.S. President Richard Nixon formally resigned. Gerald R. Ford took his place, and became the 38th president of the U.S.
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