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August 6
(Redirected from 6 August)
August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining.
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Events
1800-1899
1900-1999
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1915 - World War I: Battle of Sari Bair begins - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
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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 starring John Barrymore.
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1945 - World War II: An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Censored page on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright (another 60,000 died by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Finally about 200,000 died due to the the atomic bomb).
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1960 - Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
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1962 - Jamaica becomes independent.
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1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United States law.
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1984 - Pop star Prince releases Purple Rain, the album which would launch him to superstardom.
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1985 - In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.
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1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
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1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.
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1993 - Louis Freeh is confirmed by the United States Senate to be the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- 1993 - The Fugitive opens in theaters, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
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1996 - NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
- 1996 - Australian census conducted.
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1997 - Microsoft buys a $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled Apple Computer.
- 1997 - A Korean Air Boeing 747-300 crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
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Births
1700-1899
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1766 - William Hyde Wollaston, noted English chemist (d. 1828)
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1776 - Amedeo Avogadro, chemist (d. 1856)
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1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet: In Memoriam (d. 1892)
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1844 - James Henry Greathead, engineer (d. 1896)
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1868 - Paul Claudel, poet (d. 1955)
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1880 - Hans Moser, actor (d. 1964)
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1881 - Leo Carrillo, actor (d. 1961)
- 1881 - Alexander Fleming, scientist (d. 1955)
- 1881 - Louella Parsons, gossip columnist (d. 1972)
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1889 - John Middleton Murry, English poet (d. 1957)
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1892 - Hoot Gibson , cowboy actor (d. 1962)
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1893 - Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
1900-1999
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1900 - Cecil H. Green, Texas Instruments founder (d. 2003)
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1902 - Dutch Schultz, bootlegger, gangster (d. 1935)
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1904 - Jean Desses , French couturier (d. 1970)
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1911 - Lucille Ball, actress, comedian (d. 1989)
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1916 - Richard Hofstadter, historian (d. 1970)
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1917 - Robert Mitchum, actor: Night of the Hunter , Cape Fear (1961 version) (d. 1997)
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1918 - Otto Wolff von Amerongen , industrialist
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1922 - Sir Freddie Laker, entrepreneur
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1928 - Jan Kucera , author
- 1928 - Chung Se Yung , cofounder of the Hyundai Motor Company
- 1928 - Andy Warhol, artist (d. 1987)
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1932 - Howard Hodgkin, painter and print-maker
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1943 - Jon Postel, creator of DNS
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1946 - Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea
- 1946 - Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian
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1963 - Kevin Mitnick, computer cracker
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1970 - M. Night Shyamalan, film director, writer, producer, actor
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1971 - Merrin Dungey, actress
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1972 - Geri Halliwell, singer
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1973 - Asia Carrera, Censored page
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1976 - Melissa George, actress
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1978 - Billy Klippert, singer
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1990 - JonBenét Ramsey, young beauty queen and young victim of crime (d. 1996)
Deaths
200-1899
1900-1999
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1904 - Eduard Hanslick, music critic
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1931 - Bix Beiderbecke, jazz musician (b. 1903)
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1946 - Tony Lazzeri, Major League Baseball player
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1959 - Preston Sturges, playwright, screenwriter, director
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1964 - Sir Cedric Hardwicke, actor
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1966 - Cordwainer Smith, writer
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1973 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban dictator
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1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903)
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1978 - Pope Paul VI
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1983 - Klaus Nomi, singer
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1991 - Harry Reasoner, reporter
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1994 - Domenico Modugno, Italian, singer, songwriter Eurovision Song Contest performer, two-time San Remo Music Festival winner
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1998 - Andre Weil, mathematician
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Holidays and observances
August 5 - August 7 - July 6 - September 6 -- listing of all days
Last updated: 02-10-2005 04:09:39
Last updated: 05-03-2005 17:50:55
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