Poll without page-refresh
Article on other languages:
August 6 is the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 147 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
1538 - Bogotá , Colombia , is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada .1661 - The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic .1787 - Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention .1806 - Francis II , the last Holy Roman Emperor , abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation .1819 - Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States .1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Spain .1845 - The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg .1861 - The British annex Lagos , Nigeria .1862 - American Civil War : the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge , Louisiana .1870 - Franco-Prussian War : Battle of Wœrth is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.1890 - At Auburn Prison in New York murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair .1901 - Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation .1909 - Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.1912 - The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum .1914 - World War I : First Battle of the Atlantic - 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 Helgoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea .1914 - World War I : Serbia declares war on Germany ; Austria declares war on Russia .
1914 - Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion , becoming the first American to fight in World War I .
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 .1917 - World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.1923 - Henry Sullivan swims the English Channel .1926 - Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel .1926 - In New York , the Warner Brothers ' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan John Barrymore .
1926 - Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1942 - Queen Wilhelmina becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress .1945 - World War II : Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb , "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay radiation poisoning .1956 - After going bankrupt in 1955 , the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.1958 - Australian runner Herb Elliot breaks the world record for the mile at the Morton Stadium in Dublin , with a time of 3:54.5.1960 - Cuban Revolution : in response to a United States embargo , Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.1961 - Cosmonaut Gherman Titov makes the second successful manned orbital flight for the (USSR ).1962 - Jamaica becomes independent.1964 - Prometheus , the world's oldest tree , is cut down.1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law .1966 - Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.1976 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim , Karachi .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 .1988 - The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs reform of the NYPD , who were responsible for the melee that transpired the night of August 6-7.1990 - Gulf War : the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait .1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web . WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet .1991 - Doi Takako , chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan) , becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives .
1993 - According to a Japanese government and Tokyo Broadcasting System networks report, heavy rains and debris kill 72 in the Kagoshima and Aira areas, of Kyūshū , Japan .1996 - NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars , contains evidence of primitive life-forms.1997 - Korean Air Flight 801 , a Boeing 747 -300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.2008 - A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'etat in Mauritania , overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
Births
1180 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239 )1504 - Matthew Parker , Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1575 )1609 - Richard Bennett , British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675 )1619 - Barbara Strozzi , Italian singer and composer (d. 1677 )1638 - Nicolas Malebranche , French philosopher (d. 1715 )1644 - Louise de la Vallière , French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710 )1656 - Claude de Forbin , French naval commander (d. 1733 )1666 - Maria Sofia of the Palatinate , queen of Portugal (d. 1699 )1697 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745 )1715 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues , French writer (d. 1747 )1766 - William Hyde Wollaston , English chemist (d. 1828 )1768 - Jean-Baptiste Bessières , French marshal (d. 1813 )1775 - Daniel O'Connell , Irish politician (d. 1847 )1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson , English poet (d. 1892 )1826 - Thomas Alexander Browne , Australian writer (d. 1915 )1844 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900 )1844 - James Henry Greathead , British engineer (d. 1896 )
1861 - Edith Roosevelt , American First Lady of the United States (d. 1948 )1868 - Paul Claudel , French poet (d. 1955 )1874 - Charles Fort , American writer and researcher (d. 1932 )1877 - Wallace H. White, Jr. , American politician (d. 1952 )1880 - Hans Moser , Austrian actor (d. 1964 )1881 - Leo Carrillo , American actor (d. 1961 )1881 - Alexander Fleming , Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1955 )
1881 - Louella Parsons , American gossip columnist (d. 1972 )
1887 - Dudley Benjafield , British racing driver (d. 1957 )1888 - Heinrich Schlusnus , German baritone (d. 1952 )1889 - George Kenney , American Air Force General (d. 1977 )1889 - John Middleton Murry , English poet (d. 1957 )
1891 - William Slim , British general (d. 1970 )1892 - Hoot Gibson , American actor (d. 1962 )1893 - Wright Patman , American politician (d. 1976 )1900 - Cecil H. Green , American geophysicist (d. 2003 )1902 - Dutch Schultz , American bootlegger (d. 1935 )1904 - Henry Iba , American basketball coach (d. 1993 )1906 - Vic Dickenson , American trombonist (d. 1984 )1908 - Helen Jacobs , American tennis player (d. 1997 )1908 - Will Lee , American actor (d. 1982 )
1910 - Charles Crichton , British film director (d. 1999 )1911 - Lucille Ball , American actress (d. 1989 )1911 - Norman Gordon , South African cricketer
1914 - Arthur Charles Dobson , British racing driver (d. 1980 )1916 - Richard Hofstadter , American historian (d. 1970 )1916 - Dom Mintoff , Maltese Prime Minister
1917 - Robert Mitchum , American actor (d. 1997 )1918 - Norman Granz , American record producer (d. 2001 )1920 - Ella Raines , American actress (d. 1988 )1922 - Sir Freddie Laker , English entrepreneur (d. 2006 )1923 - Jess Collins , American artist (d. 2004 )1925 - Barbara Bates , American actress (d. 1969 )1926 - Clem Labine , American baseball player (d. 2007 )1926 - Frank Finlay , British actor1926 - Norman Wexler , American screenwriter (d. 1999 )
1928 - Herb Moford , American baseball player (d. 2005 )1928 - Andy Warhol , American artist (d. 1987 )
1929 - Roch La Salle , Canadian politician (d. 2007 )1930 - Abbey Lincoln , American jazz singer1932 - Howard Hodgkin , British painter1933 - A. G. Kripal Singh , Indian cricketer (d. 1987 )1934 - Piers Anthony , English writer1934 - Billy Boston , Welsh rugby league footballer
1937 - Baden Powell de Aquino , Brazilian guitarist (d. 2000 )1937 - Barbara Windsor , English actress
1938 - Paul Bartel , American actor (d. 2000 )1938 - Peter Bonerz , American actor
1940 - Mukhu Aliyev , Russian politician, President of Dagestan 1940 - Louise Sorel , American actress
1941 - Lyle Berman , American poker player1941 - Ray Culp , American baseball player
1942 - George Jung , American convicted drug felon1943 - Jon Postel , American computer scientist (d. 1998 )1945 - Ron Jones , British TV director (d. 1995 )1945 - Andy Messersmith , American baseball player
1946 - Allan Holdsworth , British musician1946 - Roh Moo-hyun , South Korean politician
1946 - Masaaki Sakai , Japanese comedian
1947 - Tony Dell , Australian cricketer
1949 - Dino Bravo , Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1993 )1949 - Alan Campbell , Northern Irish clergyman
1949 - Clarence Richard Silva , Catholic Bishop of Honolulu
1950 - Dorian Harewood , American actor1951 - Catherine Hicks , American actress1951 - Daryl Somers , Australian television personality
1952 - Vinnie Vincent , American musician (Kiss )1953 - Iqbal Qasim , Pakistani cricketer1954 - Paul Steigerwald , American sports announcer1957 - Bob Horner , American baseball player1957 - Jim McGreevey , American politician
1960 - Dale Ellis , American basketball player1962 - Marc Lavoine , French singer and actor1962 - Michelle Yeoh , Chinese-Malaysian actress
1963 - Kevin Mitnick , American computer hacker1964 - Moosie Drier , American actor and director1965 - Yuki Kajiura , Japanese composer1965 - Juliane Köhler , German actress
1965 - David Robinson , American basketball player
1965 - Mark Speight , British television presenter (d. 2008 )
1965 - Vincent Wells , England cricketer
1967 - Archbishop Alexy (Bondarenko) , Ukrainian-born theologian1967 - Mike Greenberg , American sportscaster
1967 - Julie Snyder , Quebec talk show host and producer
1969 - Simon Doull , New Zealand cricketer1969 - Elliott Smith , American musician (d. 2003 )
1970 - M. Night Shyamalan , Indian/American film director1970 - Erwin Thijs , Belgian cyclist
1971 - Merrin Dungey , American actress1971 - Scott Minto , English footballer
1971 - Piyal Wijetunge , Sri Lankan cricketer
1972 - Geri Halliwell , British singer (Spice Girls )1973 - Vera Farmiga , American actress1973 - Max Kellerman , American sportscaster
1973 - Stuart O'Grady , Australian cyclist
1974 - Ever Carradine , American actress1974 - Luis Vizcaino , Dominican baseball player
1975 - Victor Zambrano , Venezuelan baseball player1975 - Renate Götschl , Austrian alpine skier
1975 - Jamie McGonnigal , American actor
1976 - Melissa George , Australian actress1976 - Soleil Moon Frye , American actress
1977 - Leandro Amaral , Brazilian footballer1977 - Jennifer Lyons , American actress
1977 - Jimmy Nielsen , Danish footballer
1977 - Luciano Zavagno , Argentine footballer
1978 - Marisa Miller , American model1980 - Danny Collins , Welsh footballer1980 - Wilber Pan , American/Taiwanese singer
1981 - Travis McCoy , American alternative hip-hop artist1982 - Adrianne Curry , American model and reality television personality1982 - Karl Davies , British actor
1982 - Justin Germano , American baseball player
1982 - Kevin van der Perren , Belgian figure skater
1982 - Ryan Sypek , American actor
1983 - Robin van Persie , Dutch footballer1985 - Garrett Weber-Gale , American Olympic swimmer1990 - Jon Benet Ramsey , American beauty pageant contestant and murder victim (d. 1996)
Deaths
258 - Saint Pope Sixtus II 523 - Saint Pope Hormisdas 1162 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona 1195 - Henry the Lion , Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129 )1221 - Saint Dominic , Spanish founder of the Dominicans (b. 1170 )1272 - King Stephen V of Hungary 1414 - King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377 )1458 - Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378 )1623 - Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) (b. 1556 )1628 - Johannes Junius , Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573 )1637 - Ben Jonson , English writer (b. 1572 )1645 - Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex , English merchant (b. 1575 )1657 - Bohdan Khmelnytsky , Polish-Lithuanian noble1660 - Diego Velázquez , Spanish painter (b. 1599 )1679 - John Snell , English royalist (b. 1629 )1694 - Antoine Arnauld , French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612 )1695 - François de Harlay de Champvallon , French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625 )1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann , Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711 )1759 - Eugene Aram , English philologist (b. 1704 )1794 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst , British politician (b. 1714 )1815 - James A. Bayard (elder) , United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767 )1828 - Konstantin von Benckendorff , Russian general and statesman1850 - Edward Walsh , Irish poet (b. 1805 )1866 - John Mason Neale , English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818 )1881 - James White , co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821 )1884 - Robert Spear Hudson , English businessman (b. 1812 )1893 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel , member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811 )1904 - Eduard Hanslick , Austrian music critic (b. 1825 )1914 - Ellen Louise Wilson , first wife of President Woodrow Wilson (b. 1860 )1920 - Stefan Bastyr , Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (b. 1890 )1931 - Bix Beiderbecke , American musician (b. 1903 )1945 - Richard Bong , American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1920 )1945 - Hiram Johnson , American politician (b. 1866 )
1945 - Prince Wu of Korea (b. 1912 )
1946 - Tony Lazzeri , American baseball player (b. 1903 )1959 - Preston Sturges , American playwright, screenwriter, and director (b. 1898 )1964 - Sir Cedric Hardwicke , English actor (b. 1893 )1966 - Cordwainer Smith , American writer (b. 1913 )1969 - Theodor Adorno , German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903 )1973 - Memphis Minnie , American blues singer (b. 1897 )1973 - Fulgencio Batista , Cuban president and de facto leader (b. 1901 )
1974 - Gene Ammons , American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925 )1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky , Russian cellist (b. 1903 )1978 - Pope Paul VI (b. 1897 )1979 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen , German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911 )1983 - Klaus Nomi , German singer (b. 1944 )1986 - Emilio Fernández , Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (b. 1904 )1987 - Ira Eaker , American Air Force leader (b. 1896 )1990 - Jacques Soustelle , French anthropologist (b. 1912 )1991 - Roland Michener , Canadian politician and governor general (b. 1900 )1991 - Shapour Bakhtiar , Iranian prime minister, assassinated in Paris (b. 1915 )
1991 - Harry Reasoner , American television reporter (b. 1923 )
1993 - Tex Hughson , American baseball player (b. 1916 )1994 - Domenico Modugno , Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1928 )1998 - Andre Weil , French mathematician (b. 1906 )2001 - Jorge Amado de Faria , Brazilian writer (b. 1912 )2001 - Dorothy Tutin , English actress (b. 1930 )
2001 - Wilhelm Mohnke , one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS -Staff Guard (b. 1911 )
2002 - Edsger Dijkstra , Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930 )2004 - Rick James , American musician (b. 1948 )2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer , Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club ) (b. 1927 )2005 - Keter Betts , American jazz bassist (b. 1928 )
2005 - Robin Cook , British politician (b. 1946 )
2007 - Zsolt Daczi , Hungarian rock guitarist (Bikini, Omen, Carpathia Project Tirana Rockers, solo) (b. 1969 )2007 - Heinz Barth , German convicted war criminal (SS ) (b. 1920 )
Holidays and observances
Roman Catholicism
Eastern Orthodoxy
External links
Article keywords: 1945 30 6 august diary hiroshima japanese journal physician rev september, 1944 25 6 august campaign june normandy, 1945 1945 6 6 august august day hiroshima hiroshima lost man, 1945 30 6 august diary hiroshima japanese journal physician september,
