August 9th, 1976

Born on August 9th, 1976

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What 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, 1965

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

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.

August 9th, 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.

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

Born on August 9th, 1976

47

Audrey Tautou

French actress

*August 9th, 1976, Beaumont

47

Jessica Capshaw

American actress (born 1976)

*August 9th, 1976, Columbia

47

Rhona Mitra

British actress (born 1976)

*August 9th, 1976, Paddington

47

Olena Liashenko

Ukrainian figure skater

*August 9th, 1976, Kyiv

47

Rogier Wassen

Dutch tennis player

*August 9th, 1976, Roermond

47

Texas Battle

American actor

*August 9th, 1976, Houston

32

Mark Priestley

Australian actor (1976-2008)

*August 9th, 1976, Perth †August 27th, 2008, Sydney

25

Nawaf al-Hazmi

Saudi Arabian terrorist and 9/11 hijacker

*August 9th, 1976, Mecca †September 11th, 2001, The Pentagon

47

James Lafazanos

Canadian actor

*August 9th, 1976, Alliston

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Who's birthday is on August 9th?

37

Robert Adcock

Badminton player

*August 9th, 1986, Leicester

55

Gillian Anderson

American-British actress (born 1968)

*August 9th, 1968, Chicago

48

Whitney Houston

American singer and actress

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

38

Anna Kendrick

American actress (born 1985)

*August 9th, 1985, Portland

85

Otto Rehhagel

German footballer and manager

*August 9th, 1938, Essen

50

Filippo Inzaghi

Italian footballer and manager

*August 9th, 1973, Piacenza

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

77

Helga von Heintze

German-austrian classical archaeologist (1919-1996)

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

46

Mikaël Silvestre

French association football player

*August 9th, 1977, Chambray-lès-Tours

49

Derek Fisher

American basketball player and coach

*August 9th, 1974, Little Rock

39

Pierre Perrier

French actor

*August 9th, 1984, Nogent-sur-Marne

62

John Key

Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016

*August 9th, 1961, Auckland

55

Eric Bana

Australian film and television actor

*August 9th, 1968, Melbourne

28

Justice Smith

American actor

*August 9th, 1995, Los Angeles

35

Willian

Brazilian association football player

*August 9th, 1988, Ribeirão Pires

51

Juanes

Colombian musician (born 1972)

*August 9th, 1972, Medellín

84

Maria

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

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

26

Leon Bailey

Jamaican association football player

*August 9th, 1997, Jamaica

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Born in 1976

47

Abiy Ahmed Ali

Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018

*August 15th, 1976, Beshasha

47

Anna Friel

British actress

*July 12th, 1976, Rochdale

47

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

48

Robert Mateusiak

Badminton player

*January 13th, 1976, Wołomin

47

Gülşen

Turkish singer

*May 29th, 1976, Çapa, Fatih

47

Regina Halmich

German boxer

*November 22nd, 1976, Karlsruhe

40

Ueli Steck

Swiss mountaineer and rock climber (1976-2017)

*October 4th, 1976, Langnau im Emmental †April 30th, 2017, Nuptse

47

Halim Haryanto

Badminton player

*September 23rd, 1976, Bandung City

47

Ellen Angelina

Indonesian badminton player

*June 30th, 1976, Salatiga City

48

Chantal Botts

Badminton player

*March 30th, 1976, Witbank

48

Takae Masumo

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1976, Hokkaido

48

Pál Dárdai

Hungarian association football player and manager

*March 16th, 1976, Pécs

47

Inga Marte Thorkildsen

Norwegian politician

*July 2nd, 1976, Oslo

47

Benedict Cumberbatch

English actor (born 1976)

*July 19th, 1976, Hammersmith

47

Lars Ricken

German footballer

*July 10th, 1976, Dortmund

47

Francesco Totti

Italian association football player

*September 27th, 1976, Rome

48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

47

Colin Farrell

Irish actor (born 1976)

*May 31st, 1976, Dublin

47

Wang Chen

Hong Kong badminton player

*June 21st, 1976, Shanghai

47

Hidetaka Yamada

Badminton player

*June 22nd, 1976, Kobe

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Leap year

Yes: 1976 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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