The Second Time To Use Nuclear Weapons In War
Time: Thursday Aug 9, 1945
Place: Nagasaki, Japan
Details: On August 9, the U.S. Army Air Forces detonated a plutonium implosion-type fission bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" over the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
‹ Earlier in historyAtomic bombings of NagasakiWednesday Aug 8, 1945 Later in history ›The Soviet Union renounced its non-aggression Pact With JapanThursday Aug 9, 1945
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Disasters with highest death tolls-1792 Unzen Earthquake and Tsunami
Monday May 21, 1792 - Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Second Sino-Japanese War-Atomic bombings of Nagasaki
Wednesday Aug 8, 1945 - Nagasaki, Japan
Harry S. Truman-Nagasaki atomic bomb
Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Nagasaki, Japan
1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami-Series of earthquakes occurred on the western flank of Mount Unzen which gradually moved towards Fugen-dake
1791 - Mount Unzen, Japan
1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami-Megatsunami
May, 1792 - Shimabara Peninsula of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami-Two large earthquakes were followed by a collapse of the eastern flank of Mount Unzen's Mayuyama dome
Tuesday May 21, 1782 - Shimabara Peninsula of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami-Fugen-dake started to erupt
Feb, 1792 - Japan
First Sino-Japanese War-Starting Preparations For The Capture of Taiwan
Wednesday Mar 6, 1895 - Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan
First Sino-Japanese War-Leaving Sasebo Heading To The Pescadores
Friday Mar 15, 1895 - Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan
On This Day - 9 August
Leaning Tower of Pisa-The foundations of the tower were Laid
Thursday Aug 9, 1173 - Pisa, Italy
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-Travelling to Mumbai
Thursday Aug 9, 1888 - Mumbai, India
Armenian Genocide-No Armenian question longer exists
Monday Aug 9, 1915 - Istanbul ,Turkey (then Ottoman Empire)
Irish War of Independence-British Parliament passed the Restoration of Order in Ireland Act
Monday Aug 9, 1920 - Ireland
Atlantic Charter-First meeting
Saturday Aug 9, 1941 - Placentia Bay, Newfoundland
World War II-Japanese captured Hengyang
Wednesday Aug 9, 1944 - Hengyang, Hunan, China
Korean War-Soviet Union declared war on Japan
Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Japan
Harry S. Truman-Nagasaki atomic bomb
Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Nagasaki, Japan
Second Sino-Japanese War-The Soviet Union renounced its non-aggression Pact With Japan
Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Manchuria, China
Harry S. Truman-Soviet Union declared war on Japan
Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Soviet Union, (Russia)
Berlin Wall-Advance Warning Information
Wednesday Aug 9, 1961 - East Germany, Germany
Richard Nixon-Resignation
Friday Aug 9, 1974 - The White House, Washington D.C., U.S.
Freddie Mercury-Mercury's final live performance with Queen
Saturday Aug 9, 1986 - Knebworth Park, England, United Kingdom
Vladimir Putin-Prime Minister
Monday Aug 9, 1999 - Moscow, Russia
Second Chechen War-Servicemen were kidnapped
Monday Aug 9, 1999 - Vladikavkaz, Ossetian, Russia
Second Chechen War-Islamist fighters from Chechnya infiltrated Russia's Dagestan region
Monday Aug 9, 1999 - Dagestan, Russia
Financial crisis of 2007–2008-BNP Paribas blocked withdrawals from two of its funds
Thursday Aug 9, 2007 - U.S.
Uber-Uber expands to Africa
Friday Aug 9, 2013 - Johannesburg, South Africa
The US- China trade conflict-Biden Signs Order to Block U.S. High-Tech Investments Flowing to China
Wednesday Aug 9, 2023 - US
Cleopatra-Battle of Pharsalus
Sunday Aug 9, 48 BC - Palaepharsalus, Greece
Netherland acceded to the Hanoverian(1726)
Friday Aug 9, 1726 - Netherlands
Thomas Telford Birth
Tuesday Aug 9, 1757 - Eskdale
9 August 1945
Korean War-Soviet Union declared war on Japan
Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Japan
Harry S. Truman-Nagasaki atomic bomb
Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Nagasaki, Japan
Second Sino-Japanese War-The Soviet Union renounced its non-aggression Pact With Japan
Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Manchuria, China
Harry S. Truman-Soviet Union declared war on Japan
Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Soviet Union, (Russia)
August 1945
Atomic Bomb-The First Time To Use Nuclear Weapons In War
Monday Aug 6, 1945 - Hiroshima, Japan
Harry S. Truman-Hiroshima atomic bomb
Monday Aug 6, 1945 - Hiroshima, Japan
Second Sino-Japanese War-Atomic bombings of Hiroshima
Monday Aug 6, 1945 - Hiroshima, Japan
World War II-Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Monday Aug 6, 1945 - Japan
Second Sino-Japanese War-Atomic bombings of Nagasaki
Wednesday Aug 8, 1945 - Nagasaki, Japan
Korean War-Soviet Union declared war on Japan
Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Japan
Harry S. Truman-Nagasaki atomic bomb
Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Nagasaki, Japan
Second Sino-Japanese War-The Soviet Union renounced its non-aggression Pact With Japan
Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Manchuria, China
Harry S. Truman-Soviet Union declared war on Japan
Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Soviet Union, (Russia)
Harry S. Truman-Japan agreed to surrender
Friday Aug 10, 1945 - Japan
Korean War-The Red Army had begun to occupy the northern part of the Korean Peninsula
Friday Aug 10, 1945 - Korea
Korean War-Dividing the Korean Peninsula into Soviet and US occupation zones
Friday Aug 10, 1945 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Hirohito-The Cabinet drafted an "Imperial Rescript Ending The War"
Friday Aug 10, 1945 - Tokyo, Japan
Hirohito-The Emperor informed the imperial family of his decision to surrender
Sunday Aug 12, 1945 - Tokyo, Japan
Ho Chi Minh-August Revolution (1945)
Tuesday Aug 14, 1945 - Vietnam
Hirohito-Accepting the Potsdam Declaration
Tuesday Aug 14, 1945 - Tokyo, Japan
Hirohito-The Kyūjō Incident
Tuesday Aug 14, 1945 - Tokyo, Japan
Second Sino-Japanese War-Japanese Emperor Hirohito capitulated to the Allies
Wednesday Aug 15, 1945 - Japan
World War II-Japan surrendered
Wednesday Aug 15, 1945 - Japan
Hirohito-Broadcast the recording of the Emperor's Surrender Speech
Wednesday Aug 15, 1945 - Tokyo, Japan
World War II-Soviets invaded Japanese-held Manchuria
Monday Aug 20, 1945 - Manchuria, China
Atomic Bomb-Physicist Harry Daghlian received a lethal dose of radiation
Tuesday Aug 21, 1945 - Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, U.S.
First Indochina War-Hồ Chí Minh was able to persuade Emperor Bảo Đại
Saturday Aug 25, 1945 - French Indochina (Now Vietnam)
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle visited New York
Monday Aug 27, 1945 - U.S.
Chinese Civil War-First post-war peace negotiation
Tuesday Aug 28, 1945 - Chongqing, China
1945
First Indochina War-The Vietnamese Famine
1945 - Vietnam
First Indochina War-The Provisional Government of the French Republic wanted to restore its colonial rule in French Indochina
1945 - French Indochina (Now Vietnam)
Shimon Peres-Marriage
1945 - Israel
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-After the war
1945 - Czech Republic
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Bribes for Lives
Jan, 1945 - Brünnlitz, Czech Republic
Harald V-Returning to Norway
1945 - Norway
Harald V-The First Member of The Royal Family To attend Public School
1945 - Smestad Skole, Konventveien, Oslo, Norway
Chinese Civil War-Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation
1945 - Japan
Computer-The First Electronic Programmable Computer built In The U.S.
1945 - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Chinese Civil War-Communist Party Liberated Zone
1945 - China
Hirohito-Emperor Hirohito began a series of individual meetings to consider the progress of the war
1945 - Tokyo, Japan
Hirohito-The Cabinet had agreed on a Negotiated Surrender
1945 - Tokyo, Japan
The Holocaust-Death marches to camps in Germany and Austria
Jan, 1945 - Poland
Heinrich Himmler-Operation North Wind
Monday Jan 1, 1945 - Germany
Living in Hampton
1945 - Hampton, London, England
Alan Turing-Working on The Design of The ACE
1945 - Hampton, London, England
Rosa Parks-Rosa succeeded in registering to Vote
1945 - U.S.
Igor Stravinsky-Stravinsky became a Naturalized United States Citizen
1945 - West Hollywood, California, U.S.
Nuclear Power-Little Boy
1945 - U.S.
Charles de Gaulle-Winston Churchill made his first visit to France since the liberation
1945 - Paris, France
Martin Bormann-Hitler Transferred His Headquarters To The Führerbunker
Tuesday Jan 16, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Pope John Paul II-Germans fled the City
Wednesday Jan 17, 1945 - Karkow, Poland
Harry S. Truman-A Vice President
Saturday Jan 20, 1945 - U.S.
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels noted in his diary millions of Germans were fleeing westward
Sunday Jan 21, 1945 - Germany
Max Planck-Erwin (His son) was hanged
Tuesday Jan 23, 1945 - Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Commander of the Hastily formed Army Group Vistula
Thursday Jan 25, 1945 - Pomerania, Poland
The Holocaust-Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviets
Saturday Jan 27, 1945 - Poland
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels and his wife discussed suicide
Saturday Jan 27, 1945 - Germany
Winston Churchill-Malta Conference
Tuesday Jan 30, 1945 - Malta
Hirohito-The First Private audience with The Emperor
Feb, 1945 - Tokyo, Japan
Heinrich Himmler-Planning secret Peace Negotiation
1945 - Germany
World War II-Vistula–Oder Offensive ended
Friday Feb 2, 1945 - Poland and Eastern Germany
Queen Elizabeth II-Elizabeth appointed as an honorary second subaltern
Feb, 1945 - London, United Kingdom
World War II-Yalta Conference
Sunday Feb 4, 1945 - Yalta, Crimea, U.S.S.R.
Winston Churchill-Yalta Conference
Sunday Feb 4, 1945 - Yalta, Crimea
Bob Marley-Born
Tuesday Feb 6, 1945 - Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica
Benito Mussolini-The Porzûs massacre
Wednesday Feb 7, 1945 at 08:38:00 PM - Italy
Winston Churchill-Bombing of Dresden
Tuesday Feb 13, 1945 - Dresden, Germany
World War II-Fall of Budapest
Tuesday Feb 13, 1945 - Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
World War II-Gothic Line
Mar, 1945 - Northern Italy
John F. Kennedy-Kennedy Retired
Thursday Mar 1, 1945 - U.S.
World War II-U.S. forces recaptured Manila
Mar, 1945 - Manila, Philippines
Josip Broz Tito-The provisional government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (Demokratska Federativna Jugoslavija, DFY) was assembled in Belgrade
Wednesday Mar 7, 1945 - Serbia (Yugoslavia)
World War II-The Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine
Thursday Mar 8, 1945 - France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Germany
World War II-Bombing of Tokyo
Thursday Mar 8, 1945 - Tokyo, Japan
First Indochina War-The Second French Indochina Campaign
Friday Mar 9, 1945 - French Indochina (Now Vietnam)
Penicillin-Australia was the first country to make the drug available for civilian use
Thursday Mar 15, 1945 - Australia
Edward VIII-Resignation
Friday Mar 16, 1945 - Nassau, Bahamas
Itzak Stern-Marriage
1945 - Poland
Winston Churchill-Churchill decided to restrict area bombing and sent a memorandum to General Ismay
Wednesday Mar 28, 1945 - United Kingdom
World War II-Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan
Mar, 1945 - Northern Burma and Western Yunnan, China
World War II-Upper Silesian Offensive
Saturday Mar 31, 1945 - Upper Silesia, Germany
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-Gandhi's letter to Birla
Apr, 1945 - India
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Separation and reunion
1945 - Germany
Ho Chi Minh-Ho met with the OSS agent Archimedes Patti
Apr, 1945 - Vietnam
Hirohito-The Soviet Union issued notice that it would not renew its neutrality agreement
Apr, 1945 - Moscow, Russia (then Soviet Union)
World War II-East Pomeranian Offensive
Wednesday Apr 4, 1945 - Pomerania, Danzig-West Prussia inside Germany
Second Sino-Japanese War-Battle of West Hunan
Friday Apr 6, 1945 - Zhijiang, Huaihua, Hunan, China
Penicillin-Florey and Chain shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine
1945 - Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
World War II-Fall of Königsberg
Sunday Apr 8, 1945 - Königsberg, East Prussia (Present Day Kaliningrad, Russia)
The Holocaust-Buchenwald was liberated
Wednesday Apr 11, 1945 - Weimar, Germany
Harry S. Truman-A President
Thursday Apr 12, 1945 - U.S.
Harry S. Truman-Truman's brief vice-presidency was relatively uneventful
Thursday Apr 12, 1945 - U.S.
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels knew how to play on Hitler's fantasies
Thursday Apr 12, 1945 - Germany
World War II-Roosevelt death
Thursday Apr 12, 1945 - U.S.
Franklin D. Roosevelt-Death
Thursday Apr 12, 1945 at 03:35:00 PM - Warm Springs, Georgia, U.S.
Charles de Gaulle-Roosevelt died
Thursday Apr 12, 1945 - U.S.
World War II-Operation Spring Awakening - Last German major offensive
Sunday Apr 15, 1945 - Lake Balaton, Kingdom of Hungary
The Holocaust-Bergen-Belsen was liberated
Sunday Apr 15, 1945 - Germany
Martin Bormann-The Battle of Berlin
Monday Apr 16, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
World War II-Fall of Berlin
Monday Apr 16, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
World War II-Ruhr Pocket
Wednesday Apr 18, 1945 - Ruhr Area, Germany
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels burned his private papers
Wednesday Apr 18, 1945 - Germany
World War II-Air raids on Japan
Wednesday Apr 18, 1945 - Japan
The Holocaust-Belsen report "Victims of The Holocaust on Belsen"
Thursday Apr 19, 1945 - United Kingdom
Martin Bormann-The Red Army started to Encircle Berlin
Thursday Apr 19, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Adolf Hitler-Last trip from the Führerbunker
Friday Apr 20, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Last Meeting
Friday Apr 20, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Martin Bormann-Hitler's 56th Birthday
Friday Apr 20, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Joseph Goebbels-Most of Hitler's inner circle to leave Berlin
Friday Apr 20, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Adolf Hitler-Battle of the Seelow
Saturday Apr 21, 1945 - Seelow Heights, Province of Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Release of Jewish Concentration Camp
Saturday Apr 21, 1945 - Germany
Martin Bormann-Albert Bormann Left The Bunker complex and flew to the Obersalzberg
Monday Apr 23, 1945 - Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden, Germany
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels made the last proclamation to the people of Berlin
Monday Apr 23, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Himmler met directly with Bernadotte
Monday Apr 23, 1945 - Germany
World War II-East Prussian Offensive
Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - East Prussia (Present Day in Poland)
W. E. B. Du Bois-United Nations Conference on International Organization
Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - San Francisco, California, U.S.
Martin Bormann-Gerda Bormann and the Children fled Obersalzberg for Italy
Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - Italy
Benito Mussolini-Escaping to Spain
Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - Spain
United Nations-United Nations Conference on International Organization
Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - San Francisco, California, U.S.
Heinrich Himmler-Himmler's SS representative was caught and brought back to the Führerbunker
Friday Apr 27, 1945 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Negotiations with the western Allies
Saturday Apr 28, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
World War II-Benito Mussolini was killed
Saturday Apr 28, 1945 - Italy
Benito Mussolini-Mussolini's death
Saturday Apr 28, 1945 - Italy
Adolf Hitler-Marriage
Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Adolf Hitler-Hitler removed Göring from all government positions
Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Martin Bormann-Bormann was Named Executor of The Estate
Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden, Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Himmler and Göring are traitors
Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Germany
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels and Bormann were witnesses to Hitlers
Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
World War II-German forces surrender
Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Berlin, Germany