International Day of the Worlds Indigenous People
National Day - Singapore
48 BC – Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus – Julius Caesar decisively defeated Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey fled to Egypt.
1329 – Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, was erected by Pope John XXII; the French-born Jordanus was appointed the first Bishop.
1945 Atom bomb on Nagasaki - http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/9/newsid_3580000/3580143.stm
1965 – Singapore was expelled from Malaysia and becames the first and only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becames the first President of the United States to resign from office.
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1938 – Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
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