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9 August

🇮🇳 In India

1329 Quilon becomes the first Indian Diocese erected by Pope John XXII and Jordanus appointed the first Bishop.

1875 Bombay Stock Exchange was established. It was the first stock exchange in the country.

1942 Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of Quit India motion and campaign by the All-India Congress.

1944 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose accepted the leadership of Azad Hind Fauj.

1951 India's First Five-Year Plan (1951–56) began.

2016 Longest ever hunger strike ends, Indian human rights campaigner Irom Sharmila tastes honey after 16 years.

🌎 Elsewhere

0048 BCE Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.

1173 Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete. Due to the soft ground, it began to lean by the time its builders got to the third storey, in 1178.

1483 Opening of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.

1859 The escalator is patented. However, the first working escalator appeared only in 1900.

1945 US drops second atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Nagasaki, Japan, destroying part of the city and killing an estimated 74,000 people.

1965 Singapore proclaimed its independence from Malaysia.

⭐ Significance

Nagasaki Day is observed by the people of Japan today. On August 9, 1945, the United States dropped the second nuclear bomb named "Fat Man" on Japan's Nagasaki.

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