48 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus – Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths. Valens is killed along with over half of his army.
1173 – Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete.
1329 – Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.
1483 – Opening of the Sistine Chapel in Rome with the celebration of a Mass.
1500 – Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503): The Ottomans capture Methoni, Messenia.
1610 – The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia.
1810 – Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
1814 – Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
1842 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
1854 – Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain – At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
1877 – Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army
1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
1910 – The washing machine is patented by Chicago resident Alva Fisher
1914 – Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
1925 – A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India.
1930 – Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.
1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
1942 – Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear as their spokesperson for the first time. He was named after NYC fireman Smokey Joe Martin.
1944 – Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 35,000 people are killed outright, including 23,200-28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.
1945 – The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
1965 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
1965 – A fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
1969 – Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
1971 – The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.
1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, is sworn into office as the 38th President of the United States.
1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
1999 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists were arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests were made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation.
2014 – Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer, sparking protests and unrest in the city.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Oswald, King of the Northumbrians, Martyr. Double.
Commemoration of the Eve of St. Lawrence.
Commemoration of St. Romanus, Martyr.
Commemoration of the Eve of St. Lawrence.
Commemoration of St. Romanus, Martyr.
Contemporary Western
Candida Maria of Jesus
Edith Stein
Firmus and Rusticus
John Vianney
Nath Í of Achonry
Romanus Ostiarius
Secundian, Marcellian and Verian
Edith Stein
Firmus and Rusticus
John Vianney
Nath Í of Achonry
Romanus Ostiarius
Secundian, Marcellian and Verian
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Herman of Alaska (ECUSA))
Mary Sumner (Church of England)
Eastern Orthodox
August 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ
Holy Apostle Matthias (1st century)
Martyr Anthony of Alexandria (2nd century)
Venerable Psoes of Egypt (Psoy) (4th century)
The Holy Ten Martyrs of Halki, who defended the wonderworking icon of the Savior:
Martyrs Julian, Marcian, John, James (Jacob), Alexius, Demetrius, Photius,
Peter, Leontius, Mary the Patrician, and others, of Constantinople
Saints Secundian, Marcellian and Verian, (250)
martyrs who suffered near Civitavecchia in Italy under Decius
Saint Numidicus and Companions (251)
a group of martyrs burnt at the stake at Carthage in North Africa under Decius
Saint Romanus Ostiarius, an early martyr in Rome (258)
Saints Firmus and Rusticus, two relatives, probably citizens of Bergamo in the north of Italy,
honoured in Verona under Maximian (c. 290)
Saint Amor (Amour), venerated in Franche-Comté in France together with St Viator.
Saint Domitian of Châlons, Confessor (4th century)
third Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne in France
Saint Rusticus, a martyr at Sirmium in Pannonia (4th century)[13]
Saint Autor (Adinctor, Auteur), the thirteenth Bishop of Metz in France (5th century)
Saint Bandaridus (Banderik, Bandery), Bishop of Soissons in France from 540 to 566
and founder of a monastery at Crépin (566)
Saint Phelim, a disciple of St Columba (6th century)
Saint Serenus, Bishop of Marseilles in France (606)
Saint Nathy (Nath Í of Achonry, David), disciple of St Finian of Clonard (c. 610)
Saint Macarius, founder of Oredezh Monastery (Novgorod) (1532)
Saint Philaret (Gumilevsky), Archbishop of Chernigov (1866)
Saint Alexis Medvedkov, Archpriest, of Ugine, France (1934)
New Martyr Abbess Margaret (Gunaronulo) of Menzelino (1918)
Holy New Martyr Ignatius (Bazyluk), at St Onuphrios Monastery in Jabłeczna (1942)
Icon of the Savior "Not-Made-by-Hands" of Camuliana in Cappadocia (Image of Camuliana)
an acheiropoieton (ca. 303)
The Restoration of the Temple of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste, in Constantinople.
Repose of Irene of Athens, Byzantine empress regnant and a strong iconodule (803)
Synaxis of the Saints of Solovki.
Canonization of Venerable Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of America
(Russian Orthodox Church and related congregations)
Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ
Holy Apostle Matthias (1st century)
Martyr Anthony of Alexandria (2nd century)
Venerable Psoes of Egypt (Psoy) (4th century)
The Holy Ten Martyrs of Halki, who defended the wonderworking icon of the Savior:
Martyrs Julian, Marcian, John, James (Jacob), Alexius, Demetrius, Photius,
Peter, Leontius, Mary the Patrician, and others, of Constantinople
Saints Secundian, Marcellian and Verian, (250)
martyrs who suffered near Civitavecchia in Italy under Decius
Saint Numidicus and Companions (251)
a group of martyrs burnt at the stake at Carthage in North Africa under Decius
Saint Romanus Ostiarius, an early martyr in Rome (258)
Saints Firmus and Rusticus, two relatives, probably citizens of Bergamo in the north of Italy,
honoured in Verona under Maximian (c. 290)
Saint Amor (Amour), venerated in Franche-Comté in France together with St Viator.
Saint Domitian of Châlons, Confessor (4th century)
third Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne in France
Saint Rusticus, a martyr at Sirmium in Pannonia (4th century)[13]
Saint Autor (Adinctor, Auteur), the thirteenth Bishop of Metz in France (5th century)
Saint Bandaridus (Banderik, Bandery), Bishop of Soissons in France from 540 to 566
and founder of a monastery at Crépin (566)
Saint Phelim, a disciple of St Columba (6th century)
Saint Serenus, Bishop of Marseilles in France (606)
Saint Nathy (Nath Í of Achonry, David), disciple of St Finian of Clonard (c. 610)
Saint Macarius, founder of Oredezh Monastery (Novgorod) (1532)
Saint Philaret (Gumilevsky), Archbishop of Chernigov (1866)
Saint Alexis Medvedkov, Archpriest, of Ugine, France (1934)
New Martyr Abbess Margaret (Gunaronulo) of Menzelino (1918)
Holy New Martyr Ignatius (Bazyluk), at St Onuphrios Monastery in Jabłeczna (1942)
Icon of the Savior "Not-Made-by-Hands" of Camuliana in Cappadocia (Image of Camuliana)
an acheiropoieton (ca. 303)
The Restoration of the Temple of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste, in Constantinople.
Repose of Irene of Athens, Byzantine empress regnant and a strong iconodule (803)
Synaxis of the Saints of Solovki.
Canonization of Venerable Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of America
(Russian Orthodox Church and related congregations)
Coptic Orthodox
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