9 August

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A calendar displaying the month of August. (HOMEVID: The Zero Imperative [+]Loading...["The Zero Imperative (home video)"])
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9 August was a date.

Events

The Second Doctor and Serena landed on 9 August 1794 in Napoleonic France to begin their CIA mission against the Players. (PROSE: World Game [+]Loading...["World Game (novel)"])

In 1945, a British atomic bomb ravaged an entire city. The city was, according to Rita Hawks, "wiped from the face of the planet in the blink of an eye". Many people died in the blast. (PROSE: Loving the Alien [+]Loading...["Loving the Alien (novel)"])

In 1974, Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States. (PROSE: The Time Lord Letters [+]Loading...["The Time Lord Letters (novel)"])

Births and deaths

In 1932, Rita Hawks was born. After the bomb was dropped on her thirteenth birthday, she stopped celebrating them, unable to celebrate her arrival into the world on the same day that so many others left it. Despite this, in 1959, he[who?] began planning her 1960 birthday, indicating that she had finally gotten over the trauma of that fateful day in 1945. (PROSE: Loving the Alien [+]Loading...["Loving the Alien (novel)"])

Other

A guide for time travellers' summer holiday recommendation for 9 August was the Argolin Leisure Hive. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary [+]Loading...["Time Traveller's Diary (novel)"])