Today in History

Aug 09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969
Aug 09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC
Aug 09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
Aug 09 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
Aug 09 Singapore secedes from Malaysia, 1965
Aug 09 National Day in Singapore
Aug 09 National Women's Day in South Africa
Aug 09 Leopold III meets Hitler which grants freedom to the flemish POW, 1940
Aug 09 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Amour.
Aug 09 Emõd
Aug 09 National Women's Day in South Africa
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