August 9 is:
Book Lover’s Day A day for all those who love to read. My kind of day!!
National Rice Pudding Day
Opening of the Sistine Chapel in Rome on August 9, 1483 with the celebration of a Mass.
The Vatican Virtual Tours offers an online 360 degree tour of the Sistine Chapel.
Indian Wars: In 1814 the Creek signed the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia. The Treaty was signed following the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The U.S. force was led by General Andrew Jackson.
The Upper Creek Natives were led by Chief Menawa, who fled with hundreds of survivors into Florida, where they allied with the Seminole. The surrender ended the Creek War, which the United States was fighting simultaneously with the War of 1812.
The Webster–Ashburton Treaty was signed in 1842, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
Henry David Thoreau published Walden in 1854.
Betty Boop made her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes in 1930.
The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council released posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time in 1944.
Nagasaki (Japan) Memorial Day, a memorial observance for the victims of the second atomic bomb (Fat Man) in 1945. 3 days after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the city of Nagasaki was destroyed by a 21 kiloton atomic bomb nicknamed Fat Boy. About 40 to 80 thousand people were estimated killed during this American-led attack towards the end of the Second World War. A few days later on August 15, Japan surrendered to the Allies, effectively bringing the War to a close by September, 1945.
Anniversary of the resignation of Richard Nixon as president of the United States in 1974. His Vice President, Gerald Ford , became president.