Timelines
August 9, 2005
August 8, 1974US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign his office at 12pm on August 9, following damaging revelations in the high-profile Watergate scandal.
August 9, 1945The 10,000-lb. bomb, Fat Man, is dropped over Nagasaki after the primary objective of Kokura is passed due to visibility problems. The bomb kills an estimated 74,000 people.
August 10, 1914Austria-Hungary invades Russia in WWI.
August 11, 1921Alex Haley, geneologist an
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