What happend on 9th August

08.08
10.08
2005

Space Shuttle Discovery makes successful touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base, California

2003

Battle of Adrianople: A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey. Valens is killed along with 2/3 of his army.

2001

In Jerusalem, 15 people die and 130 wounded in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing.

2001

US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.

2000

A Piper Navajo and a Piper Seminole collide in mid-air over a housing development in Burlington, New Jersey, killing 11

1999

The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru and Kimi Ga Yo as the official national flag and national anthem.

1999

Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.

1995

Netscape launches IPO.

1993

King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office nine days after the death of his brother, King Baudouin.

1993

The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership as Hosokawa Morihiro becomes the first non-LDP Prime Minister of Japan since 1955.