August 9 Holidays

National Book Lovers Day was created to encourage people to put down their screens and read a book — the codex as a technology that has survived more than 2,000 years of reading habits and that neuroscience research consistently links to deeper comprehension than screen reading. International Day of The World’s Indigenous People was established by the UN General Assembly in 1994 to mark August 9, 1982, when the first meeting of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations took place — the date raises awareness for the rights and cultures of 476 million Indigenous people in more than 90 countries. Nagasaki Memorial Day marks August 9, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan — the second nuclear weapon used in warfare, killing an estimated 40,000 people instantly and a total of 80,000 by the end of 1945. Annual Perseid Meteor Shower Peak Night is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower — one of the most visible and prolific meteor showers in the Northern Hemisphere — producing up to 100 meteors per hour as Earth passes through debris left by comet Swift-Tuttle. A codex, 476 million people, a second bomb, and 100 meteors per hour.