August 9th, 1984

Born on August 9th, 1984

Age in days, weeks and months
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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, 1984

39

Pierre Perrier

French actor

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

39

Paul Gallagher

Scottish association football player (born 1984)

*August 9th, 1984, Glasgow

39

Gaizka Toquero

Spanish footballer

*August 9th, 1984, Vitoria-Gasteiz

39

Diego Matheuz

Venezuelan conductor and violinist

*August 9th, 1984, Barquisimeto

39

Sara Prata

Portuguese actor and model

*August 9th, 1984, São Sebastião

39

Dengaz

Portuguese rapper

*August 9th, 1984, Cascais

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

37

Robert Adcock

Badminton player

*August 9th, 1986, Leicester

38

Anna Kendrick

American actress (born 1985)

*August 9th, 1985, Portland

55

Gillian Anderson

American-British actress (born 1968)

*August 9th, 1968, Chicago

38

Filipe Luís

Brazilian association football player

*August 9th, 1985, Jaraguá do Sul

47

Audrey Tautou

French actress

*August 9th, 1976, Beaumont

47

Jessica Capshaw

American actress (born 1976)

*August 9th, 1976, Columbia

48

Whitney Houston

American singer and actress

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

85

Otto Rehhagel

German footballer and manager

*August 9th, 1938, Essen

60

Petra Pau

German politician

*August 9th, 1963, Berlin

61

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

German politician, former federal minister of defence

*August 9th, 1962, Völklingen

35

Willian

Brazilian association football player

*August 9th, 1988, Ribeirão Pires

28

Justice Smith

American actor

*August 9th, 1995, Los Angeles

56

Christian Baldauf

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

*August 9th, 1967, Frankenthal

26

Leon Bailey

Jamaican association football player

*August 9th, 1997, Jamaica

50

Filippo Inzaghi

Italian footballer and manager

*August 9th, 1973, Piacenza

37

Robert Kišerlovski

Road racing cyclist

*August 9th, 1986, Čačak

77

Helga von Heintze

German-austrian classical archaeologist (1919-1996)

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

41

Kanstantsin Sivtsov

Road bicycle racer

*August 9th, 1982, Gomel

38

JaMarcus Russell

American football player (born 1985)

*August 9th, 1985, Mobile

84

Maria

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

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

Same year
Born in 1984

39

Basshunter

Swedish singer, record producer and DJ

*December 22nd, 1984, Halmstad

40

Marc Zwiebler

German badminton player

*March 13th, 1984, Bonn

39

Helene Fischer

German singer

*August 5th, 1984, Krasnoyarsk

40

Juliette Armanet

French singer

*March 4th, 1984, Lille

39

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

39

Molly Nilsson

Swedish record producer, keyboardist and singer-songwriter

*December 14th, 1984, Stockholm

39

Sony Dwi Kuncoro

Indonesian badminton player

*July 7th, 1984, Surabaya

40

Salakjit Ponsana

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1984, Bangkok

39

Avril Lavigne

Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1984)

*September 27th, 1984, Belleville

40

Chanan Colman

Danish-American-Israeli former basketball player

*March 10th, 1984, Gladsaxe Municipality

39

Scarlett Johansson

American actress (born 1984)

*November 22nd, 1984, Manhattan

40

Valeria Sorokina

Russian badminton player

*March 29th, 1984, Reshetikha, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

39

French Montana

American rapper

*November 9th, 1984, Casablanca

40

Patrícia Kimberly

Brazilian pornographic actress

*January 6th, 1984, São Paulo

40

Duanganong Aroonkesorn

Thai badminton player

*February 6th, 1984, Bangkok

39

Valeriy Atrashchenkov

Badminton player

*August 20th, 1984, Kharkiv

39

Andrej Ashmarin

Badminton player

*November 9th, 1984, Moscow

39

Mark Zuckerberg

American internet entrepreneur

*May 14th, 1984, White Plains

39

Jinjin Harder

German singer

*August 30th, 1984, Wuhan

39

Ave Pajo

Estonian badminton and football player

*July 9th, 1984, Estonia

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Born on August 9th, 1984
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Leap year

Yes: 1984 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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