Historical Events   -   August 9

1173: Construction of the leaning tower of Pisa in Italy started.

1892: Thomas Edison received a patent for a two-way telegraph.

1925: Chandrasekhar Azad and his associates looted the government treasury at Kakori railway station.

1942: The British Government arrested Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru, and many other leaders of the Indian National Congress for launching a ‘Quit India’ movement.

1945: The US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.

1965: Singapore became independent after being expelled from Malaysia. It is the only country in the world that has become independent against its will.

1993: Issuance of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s postage stamp on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the Quit India Movement.

2019: 220 million trees were planted in one day in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Famous Birthdays – August 9

1776: Amedeo Avogadro, an Italian scientist.

1862: Gangadhara Meher, an Odia poet.

1936: Satish Kumar, an Indian British activist, and speaker. 

1975: Mahesh Babu, an Indian film actor, producer, media personality, and philanthropist.

1991: Hansika Motwani, an Indian actress.

1993: Dipa Karmakar, an Indian artistic gymnast.

Death Aanniversaries   – August 9

1970: Trailokyanath Chakraborty, an Indian independence activist and politician.

2002: Ram Kinkar Upadhyay, an Indian scholar.

2015: Kayyara Kinhanna Rai, an Indian independence activist, author, poet, journalist, teacher, and farmer.

2016: Kalikho Pul, a former Chief Minister State of Arunachal Pradesh.