Book Lover's Day is observed on August 09, 2016.
It's a day for those who love to read. Just take a great book and relax
by reading it. Bibliophilia or bibliophilism is the love of books.
Accordingly a bibliophile is an individual who loves books. A bookworm
is someone who loves books for their content, or who otherwise loves
reading. A bibliophile may be, but is not necessarily, a book collector.
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The United Nations’ (UN) International Day of the World's Indigenous
People is observed on August 9 each year to promote and protect the
rights of the world’s indigenous population. This event also recognizes
the achievements and contributions that indigenous people make to
improve world issues such as environmental protection.
Quit India Movement was one of the significant movements towards
achieving freedom. The history of Quit India Day is written in golden
letters in India's freedom struggle. It is one of the crucial movements
in India's freedom struggle. The movement was the brainchild of Mahatma
Gandhi. He urged the whole country to raise their voice against the
suppressing British Raj. This led to the Quit India Movement.
On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the
United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan’s unconditional
surrender.
The devastation wrought at Hiroshima was not sufficient to convince
the Japanese War Council to accept the Potsdam Conference’s demand for
unconditional surrender. The United States had already planned to drop
their second atom bomb, nicknamed “Fat Man,” on August 11 in the event
of such recalcitrance, but bad weather expected for that day pushed the
date up to August 9th. So at 1:56 a.m., a specially adapted B-29 bomber,
called “Bock’s Car,” after its usual commander, Frederick Bock, took
off from Tinian Island under the command of Maj. Charles W. Sweeney.
Nagasaki was a shipbuilding center, the very industry intended for
destruction. The bomb was dropped at 11:02 a.m., 1,650 feet above the
city. The explosion unleashed the equivalent force of 22,000 tons of
TNT. The hills that surrounded the city did a better job of containing
the destructive force, but the number killed is estimated at anywhere
between 60,000 and 80,000 (exact figures are impossible, the blast
having obliterated bodies and disintegrated records).
