9 August 2025 (MIA)

916 – St. Clement of Ohrid dies in Ohrid. He was the founder of the Slavic literature, the first original Slavic and Macedonian poet, orator, translator, first Slavic and Macedonian Bishop on the Balkans, and the patron of Ohrid. He was born in Ohrid around 840 A.D.

1483 – Opening of the Sistine Chapel in Rome with the celebration of a Mass.

1810 – Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.

1842 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.

1883 – One of Macedonia’s most renowned national activists and the oldest member of ASNOM’s First Session, Panko Brasnarov born in Veles. He passed away at Goli Otok on July 13, 1951.

1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.

1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

1914 – Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.

1930 – Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.

1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.

1942 – Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.

1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.

1944 – Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.

1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 35,000 people are killed outright, including 23,200-28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.

1945 – The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.

1965 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.

1965 – A fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.

1969 – Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men’s hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.

1971 – The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.

1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.

1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.

1999 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.

2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists was arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests were made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation.

2014 – Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer, sparking protests and unrest in the city.

2020 – New Zealand marks 100 days without community transmission of COVID-19.

2020 – Brazil passes 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, the world’s 2nd highest, with over 3 million recorded cases.

2020 – Disputed Belarusian presidential election sees long time dictator Alexander Lukashenko officially win 80% of the votes but unofficially lose 60-70% of the votes to main opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. Sparks widespread protests in Belarus and international condemnation.

2021 – Landmark UN IPCC climate report “is a “Code Red for humanity,” rise of 1.5C now certain, catastrophic change can still be avoided if the world works fast.