Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 9

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 * 1821 – The statue of A'a from Rurutu was presented to members of the London Missionary Society on the south Pacific island of Ra'iatea.
 * 1862 – American Civil War: After nearly being driven from the field in the early part of the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Confederate troops counter-attacked and achieved a victory.
 * 1877 – Nez Perce War: Both the Nez Perce and the United States Army suffered numerous casualties at the Battle of the Big Hole, which ended inconclusively.
 * 1902 – In a ceremony at Westminster Abbey, Edward VII and Alexandra were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor and Empress of India.
 * 1934 – The Blue Lotus, the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé and noted for its emphasis on countering negative misconceptions of Chinese people, began serialisation.
 * 1942 – World War II: In the first major naval engagement of the Guadalcanal campaign, Japan forced the U.S. Navy to withdraw from the Solomon Islands.
 * 1944 – The United States Forest Service authorized the use of Smokey Bear as its mascot to replace Bambi.
 * 1945 – World War II: The USAAF bomber Bockscar dropped a Fat Man atomic bomb (replica pictured) on Nagasaki, Japan.
 * 1956 – An estimated 20,000 women marched on Pretoria, South Africa, to protest the introduction of the Apartheid pass laws for black women in 1952.
 * 1965 – The state of Singapore (flag pictured) was expelled from the Malaysian federation due to a heated ideological conflict between their respective ruling parties.
 * 1969 – Members of the Manson Family invaded a house and murdered actress Sharon Tate and four guests, before killing two more people the following night.
 * 1971 – The Troubles: British forces began arresting and interning suspected Irish republican militants in Northern Ireland.
 * 1974 – On the verge of an impeachment and removal from office amidst the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon became the first president of the United States to resign his office.
 * 1988 – Wayne Gretzky was traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial player transactions in ice hockey history.
 * 2001 – A suicide bomber attacked a pizza restaurant in Jerusalem, killing 15 people and wounding 130 others.
 * 2006 – British police arrested 24 people for conspiring to detonate liquid explosives carried on board airliners travelling from the UK to the US and Canada.
 * 2008 – A civilian school bus in Dahyan, Yemen, was bombed by Saudi Arabia killing at least 40 children under 15.
 * 2014 – Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African-American man, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, resulting in widespread protests and unrest.
 * Born/died: | Walter of Kirkham |d|1260| Stephen of Anjou |d|1354| Hieronymus Bosch |d|1516| Michael the Brave |d|1601| Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton |b|1757| Roman Dmowski |b|1864| Annie Turnbo Malone |b|1869| Albert Ketèlbey |b|1875 Ernst Haeckel |d|1919| Philip Larkin |b|1922| Bob Cousy |b|1928| John Key |b|1961|Brett Hull |b|1964| Gillian Anderson |b|1968| Li Jiawei|b|1981| Jason Heyward |b|1989