9th August 1999, five months prior, US president Bill Clinton is acquitted by the US Senate on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. 9th August 1991, later that year, the Soviet Union is officially dissolved and ceases to exist as a sovereign state. 9th August 1986, in the same year that the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurs in Ukraine, the worst nuclear accident to date. Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics, becoming the most decorated Olympian at the games. 9th August 1936, in the same year that King Edward VIII abdicates the throne to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcée.