August 9 in strange history
What strange thing happened on August 9? Here is the story from our files for this date, each checked against sources.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Survivor of Two Atomic Bombs (1945)
Engineer Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and back home in Nagasaki on 9 August. He survived both atomic bombs and in 2009 became the only person officially recognised as surviving both.