Historical Events on August 6, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on August 6th This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2015 | A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha. |
| 2012 | NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars. |
| 2011 | War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan. |
| 2010 | Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people. |
| 2008 | A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. |
| 2001 | Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu. |
| 1997 | Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 228 of 254 people on board. |
| 1996 | The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1996 | NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms. |
| 1991 | Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet. |
| 1991 | Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives. |
| 1990 | Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. |
| 1986 | A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
| 1965 | US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. |
| 1962 | Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom. |
| 1960 | Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation. |
| 1958 | Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy, outlawing the Communist Party of Chile and banning 26,650 persons from the electoral lists,[7] is repealed in Chile. |
| 1956 | After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series. |
| 1945 | World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning. |
| 1944 | The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out. |
| 1942 | Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress. |
| 1940 | Estonia becomes part of the Soviet Union. |
| 1926 | Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel. |
| 1926 | In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore. |
| 1917 | World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins. |
| 1915 | World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay. |
| 1914 | World War I: U-boat campaign: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea. |
| 1914 | World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia. |
| 1901 | Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation. |
| 1890 | At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair. |
| 1870 | Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a German victory. |
| 1870 | Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive German victory. |
| 1862 | American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. |
| 1861 | Britain imposes the Lagos Treaty of Cession to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria. |
| 1825 | The Bolivian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed. |
| 1824 | Peruvian War of Independence: The Battle of Junín. |
| 1819 | Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States. |
| 1806 | Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares the moribund empire to be dissolved, although he retains power in the Austrian Empire. |
| 1787 | Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 1777 | American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix. |
| 1661 | The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic. |
| 1538 | Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. |
| 1284 | The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean. |
Famous People Born on August 6
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| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1844 | James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (d. 1896) |
| 1922 | Dan Walker, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (d. 2015) |
| 1916 | Dom Mintoff, Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 2012) |
| 1916 | Richard Hofstadter, American historian and academic (d. 1970) |
| 1914 | Gordon Freeth, Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 2001) |
| 1846 | Anna Haining Bates, Canadian-American giant (d. 1888) |
| 1979 | Travis Reed, American basketball player |
| 1959 | Rajendra Singh, Indian environmentalist |
| 1962 | Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer |
| 1965 | Vince Wells, English cricketer |
Famous People Deaths On August 6
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on August 6. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1979 | Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) |
| 1162 | Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. 1113) |
| 1952 | Betty Allan, Australian statistician and biometrician (b. 1905) |
| 1657 | Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian soldier and politician, 1st Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (b. 1595) |
| 1931 | Bix Beiderbecke, American cornet player, pianist, and composer (b. 1903) |
| 1893 | Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1811) |
| 1990 | Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and politician (b. 1912) |
| 1994 | Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter and politician (b. 1928) |
| 2002 | Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch physicist, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1930) |
| 2001 | Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist and poet (b. 1912) |
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