9 August 1757 Thomas Telford was born

9 August 1757: The birth of Thomas Telford, the man whose civil engineering achievements would transform Scotland.

9 August 1822: King George IV arrives in Edinburgh, the first visit to Scotland by a reigning monarch since Charles II.

9 August 1997: The Isle of Arran Distillery's new visitor centre is opened by HM The Queen during a tour of the Western Isles on the Royal Yacht Britannia.

9 August 1945 The second atomic bomb dropped on Japan by the United States in World War II struck the city of Nagasaki.