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