Holidays and observances
August 9
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Holidays and observances
Battle of Gangut Day
(
Russia
)
Christian
feast day
:
Candida Maria of Jesus
[
1
]
Edith Stein
(St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross)
Firmus and Rusticus
Blessed
Florentino Asensio Barroso
[
1
]
Herman of Alaska
(
Russian Orthodox Church
and
related congregations
;
Episcopal Church (USA)
)
Mary Sumner
(
Church of England
)
Nath Í of Achonry
[
1
]
Romanus Ostiarius
[
1
]
Secundian, Marcellian and Verian
August 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
(
United Nations
)
[
2
]
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)
Day of the
Finnish art
, also birthday of
Tove Jansson
(
Finland
)
[
3
]
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a
b
c
d
Martyrologium Romanum
. Vatican: Libreria Editrice Vaticana. 2004. pp.
441–
443
. Retrieved
29 June
2026
.
^
"International Days"
.
www.un.org
. 6 January 2015
. Retrieved
2 January
2021
.
^
"Tove Jansson Day/Finnish Art Day – August 9"
. Finlandia Foundation
. Retrieved
9 August
2024
.