August 9th, 1965

Born on August 9th, 1965

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What happened on August 9th, 1965?

August 9th, 1965

Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore

August 9th, 1965

The state of Singapore (flag pictured) was expelled from the Malaysian federation due to a heated ideological conflict between their respective ruling parties.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore

What else happened on August 9th?

August 9th, 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.

August 9th, 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.

August 9th, 2001

A suicide bomber attacked a pizza restaurant in Jerusalem, killing 15 people and wounding 130 others.

August 9th, 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.

August 9th, 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.

August 9th, 1971

The Troubles: British forces began arresting and interning suspected Irish republican militants in Northern Ireland.

August 9th, 1969

Members of the Manson Family invaded a house and murdered American actress Sharon Tate (pictured) and four guests in Los Angeles, before killing two more people the following night.

August 9th, 1960

Led by Albert Kalonji, South Kasai declared its unilateral secession from the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).

August 9th, 1945

World War II: The USAAF bomber Bockscar dropped a Fat Man atomic bomb (replica pictured) on Nagasaki, Japan.

August 9th, 1944

The United States Forest Service authorized the use of Smokey Bear as its mascot to replace Bambi.

August 9th, 1942

Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 was premiered in Leningrad while the city was under siege by Nazi forces.

August 9th, 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.

August 9th, 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.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 9th

Born on August 9th, 1965

58

Alexis Ayala

Mexican actor

*August 9th, 1965, San Francisco

58

John Smith

American wrestler

*August 9th, 1965, Oklahoma City

58

Aleksandar Abutovic

Association football player

*August 9th, 1965, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

58

Sabine Petzl

Austrian actress

*August 9th, 1965, Vienna

57

Nitin Chandrakant Desai

Art director, production designer

*August 9th, 1965, Mulund †August 2nd, 2023, ND Studios, Karjat

58

Brahmaji

Indian actor

*August 9th, 1965, West Godavari district

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 9th?

48

Whitney Houston

American singer and actress

*August 9th, 1963, Newark †February 11th, 2012, The Beverly Hilton

55

Gillian Anderson

American-British actress (born 1968)

*August 9th, 1968, Chicago

60

Petra Pau

German politician

*August 9th, 1963, Berlin

61

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

German politician, former federal minister of defence

*August 9th, 1962, Völklingen

56

Christian Baldauf

German politician (CDU), Member of Parliament in Rhineland-Palatinate

*August 9th, 1967, Frankenthal

37

Robert Adcock

Badminton player

*August 9th, 1986, Leicester

85

Otto Rehhagel

German footballer and manager

*August 9th, 1938, Essen

47

Audrey Tautou

French actress

*August 9th, 1976, Beaumont

62

John Key

Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016

*August 9th, 1961, Auckland

47

Jessica Capshaw

American actress (born 1976)

*August 9th, 1976, Columbia

55

Eric Bana

Australian film and television actor

*August 9th, 1968, Melbourne

38

Anna Kendrick

American actress (born 1985)

*August 9th, 1985, Portland

50

Filippo Inzaghi

Italian footballer and manager

*August 9th, 1973, Piacenza

64

Maria Guleghina

Ukrainian singer

*August 9th, 1959, Odesa

77

Helga von Heintze

German-austrian classical archaeologist (1919-1996)

*August 9th, 1919, Bielsko-Biała †November 15th, 1996, Rome

66

Melanie Griffith

American actress

*August 9th, 1957, Manhattan

59

Hoda Kotb

American broadcast journalist, television personality, and author

*August 9th, 1964, Norman

84

Maria

Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896-1980)

*August 9th, 1896, Neuchâtel †September 16th, 1980, Geneva

54

Estella Marie Thompson

American television personality and former prostitute

*August 9th, 1969, San Francisco

74

Hugo Blümner

German archaeologist and classical philologist

*August 9th, 1844, Berlin †January 1st, 1919, Zürich

Same year
Born in 1965

58

Martin Sonneborn

German satirist, journalist and politician

*May 15th, 1965, Göttingen

58

J. K. Rowling

British author and philanthropist (born 1965)

*July 31st, 1965, Yate

58

Norbert Röttgen

German politician (CDU)

*July 2nd, 1965, Meckenheim

59

Hansi Flick

German association football player and manager

*February 24th, 1965, Heidelberg

59

Thomas Kemmerich

German politician

*February 20th, 1965, Aachen

58

Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen

Danish badminton player and administrator

*September 20th, 1965, Esbønderup

58

Dmitry Medvedev

President of Russia from 2008 to 2012

*September 14th, 1965, Saint Petersburg

58

Karl-Heinz Riedle

German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1965, Weiler-Simmerberg

58

Andreas Thom

German association football player and manager

*September 7th, 1965, Rüdersdorf bei Berlin

59

Claudine Loquen

French painter and sculptor

*February 22nd, 1965, Sainte-Adresse

58

Jan Tore Sanner

Norwegian politician

*May 6th, 1965, Bærum Municipality

58

Karin Beier

German theatre director

*December 14th, 1965, Cologne

58

Gunnar Beck

German EU lawyer and legal philosopher

*May 1st, 1965, Düsseldorf

59

Inger Lise Hegge

Norwegian cross-country skier

*January 6th, 1965, Steinkjer Municipality

48

Wolfgang Herrndorf

German novelist, painter, and illustrator (1965-2013)

*June 12th, 1965, Hamburg †August 26th, 2013, Berlin

58

Eva Christiane Cancik-Kirschbaum

German assyriologist

*August 29th, 1965, Tübingen

59

Sven Demandt

German footballer

*February 13th, 1965, Cologne

53

Jörg Stübner

German footballer (1965–2019)

*July 23rd, 1965, Freiberg †June 24th, 2019, Dresden

59

Zhao Jianhua

Badminton player

*April 21st, 1965, Nantong

58

Viola Davis

American actress and producer (born 1965)

*August 11th, 1965, St. Matthews

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No: With 365 days 1965 is a normal year and no leap year.

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