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On August 9, -48: Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus: Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.

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Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus: Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.

Caesar's civil war occurred during the late Roman Republic between two factions led by Julius Caesar and Pompey. The main cause of the war was political tensions relating to Caesar's place in the Republic on his expected return to Rome on the expiration of his governorship in Gaul.

People

Born on August 9

Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva 2005– Andorran tennis player (born 2005)
Aidan Hutchinson 2000– American football player (born 2000)
Arlo Parks 2000– British singer
Deniss Vasiļjevs 1999– Latvian figure skater (born 1999)
Sanya Lopez 1996– Filipino actress (born 1996)
Eli Apple 1995– American football player (born 1995)
Justice Smith 1995– American actor (born 1995)
Hwang Min-hyun 1995– South Korean singer and actor (born 1995)
Kelli Hubly 1994– American soccer player (born 1994)
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King Von 1994– American rapper (1994–2020)
Jun.Q 1993– South Korean rapper and actor (born 1993)
Dipa Karmakar 1993– Indian gymnast and Olympic medalist
Farahnaz Forotan 1992– Afghan journalist
Alice Barlow 1991– English actress and singer
Alexa Bliss 1991– American professional wrestler (born 1991)
Hansika Motwani 1991– Indian actress (born 1991)
İshak Doğan 1990– Turkish footballer
Sarah McBride 1990– American politician and activist (born 1990)

People

Died on August 9

Susan Wojcicki American business executive (1968–2024)
Robbie Robertson Canadian singer, songwriter and guitarist (1943–2023)
Pat Hitchcock British-American actress and producer (1928–2021)
Killer Kau South African rapper, dancer, and producer (1998–2021)
Zairaini Sarbini Malaysian freelance voice actress (1972–2021)
Gerald Grosvenor British landowner, businessman, aristocrat and Territorial Army officer (1951–2016)
Frank Gifford American football player and television sportscaster (1930–2015)
John Henry Holland American researcher in genetic algorithms (1929–2015)
Walter Nahún López Honduran footballer
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David Nobbs English comedy writer (1935–2015)
Kayyar Kinhanna Rai Indian poet and activist (1915–2015)
Fikret Otyam Turkish journalist, writer and painter
J. F. Ade Ajayi Nigerian historian (1929–2014)
Andriy Bal Ukrainian footballer and coach
Arthur G. Cohen Businessperson
Ed Nelson American actor, AMPAs member; mayor (1928–2014)
Harry Elliott American baseball player (1923–2013)
Eduardo Falú Musical artist

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Every August 9 on record

  1. -48 Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus: Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.

    War in the Roman Republic (49–45 BC)

    Caesar's civil war occurred during the late Roman Republic between two factions led by Julius Caesar and Pompey. The main cause of the war was political tensions relating to Caesar's place in the Republic on his expected return to Rome on the expiration of his governorship in Gaul.

  2. 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.

    Conflict between the Roman Empire and various Gothic tribes

    The Gothic War of 376–382 was one of several Gothic Wars in Roman history in which the Goths fought against the Roman Empire. This particular conflict included the catastrophic Roman defeat at the Battle of Adrianople, which is commonly seen as a cause of the decline of the Western Roman Empire, although its significance is widely debated.

  3. 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.

    Tower containing or designed to hold bells

    A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell towers, often part of a municipal building, an educational establishment, or a tower built specifically to house a carillon. Church bell towers often incorporate clocks, and secular towers usually do, as a public service.

  4. 1329 Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.

    Diocese in Kerala, India

    The Diocese of Quilon is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church based in the southern Indian city of Kollam. The diocese was create in 1329 but the Bishop did not take canonical possession and then Gregory XVI made Quilon as the new diocese suffragan of Verapoly on September 1, 1886. Then diocese was made as a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Trivandrum.

  5. 1500 Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503): The Ottomans capture Methoni, Messenia.

    Second conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice

    The Second Ottoman–Venetian War was fought from 1499 to 1503 between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice for control of contested lands in the Aegean Sea, the Ionian Sea, and the Adriatic Sea. The Ottomans, under the command of Admiral Kemal Reis, were victorious and forced the Venetians to recognize their gains at the end of the war.

  6. 1610 The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia.
  7. 1810 Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
  8. 1814 American Indian Wars: The Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
  9. 1830 Louis Philippe becomes the king of the French following abdication of Charles X.
  10. 1842 The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
  11. 1854 American Transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau publishes his memoir Walden.
  12. 1855 Åland War: The Battle of Suomenlinna begins.
  13. 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
  14. 1877 American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole: A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army.
  15. 1892 Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
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  1. 1897 The first International Congress of Mathematicians is held in Zürich, Switzerland.
  2. 1902 Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  3. 1907 The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
  4. 1925 A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India, by the Indian independence revolutionaries, against the British government.
  5. 1936 Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
  6. 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.
  7. 1942 Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th symphony premiers in a besieged Leningrad.
  8. 1944 The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
  9. 1944 World War II: 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.
  10. 1945 World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200–28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.
  11. 1945 The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
  12. 1960 South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
  13. 1965 Singapore is expelled from Malaysia.
  14. 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders: Followers of 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.
  15. 1970 LANSA Flight 502 crashes after takeoff from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco, Peru, killing 99 of the 100 people on board, as well as two people on the ground.

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