På denne dag: 9. august
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
1821: Historisk hendelse
A statue of the Polynesian god A'a was presented to members of the London Missionary Society on the south Pacific island of Ra'iatea.
1862: Historisk hendelse
American Civil War: Confederate troops counter-attacked and won the Battle of Cedar Mountain, after nearly being driven from the field in the early part of the battle.
1877: Historisk hendelse
Nez Perce War: Both the Nez Perce and the United States Army suffered numerous casualties at the Battle of the Big Hole, which ended conclusively.
1897: Historisk hendelse
The first meeting of the International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Zürich, Switzerland.
1902: Historisk hendelse
In a ceremony at Westminster Abbey, Edward VII and Alexandra were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor and Empress of India.
1934: Historisk hendelse
The Blue Lotus, the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé and noted for its emphasis on countering negative misconceptions of Chinese people, began serialisation.
1942: Historisk hendelse
World War II: In the first major naval engagement of the Guadalcanal campaign, Japan forced the U.S. Navy to withdraw from the Solomon Islands.
1942: Historisk hendelse
Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 was premiered in Leningrad while the city was under siege by Nazi forces.
1944: Historisk hendelse
The United States Forest Service authorized the use of Smokey Bear (pictured) as its mascot to replace Bambi.
1945: Historisk hendelse
World War II: The USAAF bomber Bockscar dropped a Fat Man atomic bomb (replica pictured) on Nagasaki, Japan.
1956: Historisk hendelse
About 20,000 women marched on Pretoria, South Africa, to protest the introduction of pass laws for black women under apartheid.
1960: Historisk hendelse
Led by Albert Kalonji, South Kasai declared its unilateral secession from the Republic of the Congo.
1969: Historisk hendelse
Members of the Manson Family invaded a house and murdered American actress Sharon Tate (pictured) and four guests in Los Angeles, before killing two more people the following night.
1971: Historisk hendelse
The Troubles: British forces began arresting and interning suspected Irish republican militants in Northern Ireland.
1974: Historisk hendelse
On the verge of an impeachment and removal from office amid the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon became the first president of the United States to resign.
1979: Historisk hendelse
Female workers of YH Trading in South Korea held a sit-in protest in response to the company's unilateral shutdown.
1988: Historisk hendelse
Wayne Gretzky was traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial player transactions in ice hockey history.
2001: Historisk hendelse
Second Intifada: A suicide bomber attacked a pizza restaurant in Jerusalem, killing 15 people and wounding 130 others.
2006: Historisk hendelse
British police arrested 24 people for conspiring to detonate liquid explosives carried on board airliners travelling from the UK to the US and Canada.
2014: Historisk hendelse
Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African-American man, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, resulting in widespread protests and unrest.
2018: Historisk hendelse
A civilian school bus in Dahyan, Yemen, was bombed by Saudi Arabia killing at least 40 children under 15.
2018: Historisk hendelse
A civilian school bus in Dahyan, Yemen, was bombed by Saudi forces, killing at least 40 children.
2023: Historisk hendelse
Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated in Quito, eleven days before the general election.
2024: Historisk hendelse
Voepass Linhas Aéreas Flight 2283 crashed near Vinhedo, São Paulo, Brazil, killing all 62 people on board.
🔍 Om kildene og historisk datering
Å tidfeste hendelser tusenvis av år tilbake i tid er en krevende historievitenskapelig oppgave. Før innføringen av den julianske kalenderen (45 f.Kr.) og den gregorianske kalenderen (1582) benyttet ulike sivilisasjoner (romere, grekere, kinesere, babylonere) vidt forskjellige kalendersystemer basert på månesykluser eller lokale embetsperioder.
Slik merker vi dateringene:
• ✓ Sikker datering: Dokumentert i samtidige protokoller, offisielle traktater eller etter standardiserte kalendersystemer.
• ⚠️ Usikker / estimert: Hendelsen er historisk reell, men datoen er tradisjonell, basert på senere krøniker eller lunisolare omregninger.
- Wikimedia Foundation – Wikipedia On This Day arkiver og historiske registre.
- Store norske leksikon (SNL) – Norsk og internasjonal historie, biografier og årstallsverifisering.
- Encyclopædia Britannica – Verifisering av antikke slag, fredsavtaler og statsdannelser.
- NASA Historical Logs & Science Missions – Romfartshistoriske datoer og oppskytningstelemetri.