9th August anniversaries

• Birth
• event
  • 1859
  • Great Britain
  • American patent lawyer Nathan Ames was granted a patent for a revolving stairway the worlds first escalator
  • 1902
  • Great Britain
  • "Coronation of Edward VII, following the end of the Boer War "
  • 1945
  • Japan
  • Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
  • 1979
  • Great Britain
  • Britains first nudist beach opened in Brighton
• Death
  • 1856
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Elizabeth Martha Brown, executed in Dorchester for the murder of her husband. Thomas Hardy watched the execution and her story inspired him to write Tess of the D'Urbervilles." more
  • 1969
  • United States
  • "Death of Sharon Tate, American actress, killed at her home in Los Angeles by followers of cult leader Charles Manson"