This Day in the Arts: August 9
1173:
Construction begins on the (Leaning) Tower of Pisa. It will take two centuries to complete.
1483:
The Sistine Chapel opens as the official residence of the Roman Catholic Pope in the Vatican City.
1986:
The Headington Shark, a sculpture depicting a shark embedded head-first in the roof of a house, is erected at 2 New High Street, Headington, Oxford.
