How Many Days Until August 9?

This day in history: August 9

1. 1974

   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.

2. 1979

   Female workers of YH Trading in South Korea held a sit-in protest in response to the company's unilateral shutdown.

3. 1988

   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.

4. 2001

   Second Intifada: A suicide bomber attacked a pizza restaurant in Jerusalem, killing 15 people and wounding 130 others.

5. 2006

   British police arrested 24 people for conspiring to detonate liquid explosives carried on board airliners travelling from the UK to the US and Canada.

6. 2014

   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.

7. 2018

   A civilian school bus in Dahyan, Yemen, was bombed by Saudi Arabia killing at least 40 children under 15.

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