August 9 is the 221st day of the year (222nd in leap years); 144 days remain until the end of the year.
"I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been"
Born today
Daniel Keyes, 1927, American author (“Flowers for Algernon”)
Ernst Haeckel, 1834, German biologist, naturalist, and philosopher
Observances
Battle of Gangut Day (Russia)
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (United Nations)
Meyboom (Brussels and Leuven, Belgium)
National Day, celebrates the independence of Singapore from Malaysia in 1965.
National Peacekeepers' Day, celebrated on Sunday closest to the day (Canada)
National Women's Day (South Africa, US)
