MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · August 9
THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 9
August 9 in history
378 — Adrianople
9 Aug 378 — The Gothic refugees Rome admitted, then starved and cheated, destroy the eastern field army. Emperor Valens dies unfound; two-thirds of his men die with him.
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1945
Nagasaki is bombed hours after 1.5 million Soviet troops pour into Manchuria. Japan’s cabinet deadlocks; the Emperor breaks the tie.
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