August 6
day of the year
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 Edit
Up to 1900 Edit
- 1223 - Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile are crowned King and Queen of France.
- 1284 - The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, therefore losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
- 1506 - The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk.
- 1538 - Bogota, the present-day capital city of Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada.
- 1661 - The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
- 1777 - American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
- 1787 - Sixty proof sheets of the United States Constitution are delivered to the Constitution Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1813 - Simon Bolivar takes control of Caracas (present-day Venezuela) from the Spanish.
- 1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Peru.
- 1845 - The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
- 1861 – British annexation of Lagos, Nigeria.
- 1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with the USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: The Battles of Spicheren and Woerth both end in Prussian victory.
- 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electric chair is performed, with murderer William Kemmler as the subject.
- 1893 - The Corinth Canal in Greece opens for shipping.
- 1896 - Madagascar officially becomes a French colony.
1901 – 2000 Edit
- 1914 - World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany.
- 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.
- 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
- 1926 – In New York City, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
- 1940 - The Soviet Union takes control of Estonia.
- 1942 - Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
- 1945 – World War II: An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima, Japan at 8:16 a.m.. It kills 80,000 outright with another 60,000 dead by the end of the year from fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bombing.
- 1958 - Gasherbrum IV in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas is first climbed, by Walter Bonatti and Carlo Mauri.
- 1960 – Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
- 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1964 - Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and 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 Fall City, Nebraska, killing all 42 people.
- 1984 – Pop star Prince releases Purple Rain, the album which launched him to superstardom.
- 1985 – In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.
- 1988 – "Police riot" in New York City's Tompkins Square Park
- 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.
- 1991 - Takako Doi becomes the first female speaker of the Japanese House of Representatives.
- 1993 - Heavy rains kill 72 people in the Aira and Kagoshima areas of Kyushu, Japan.
- 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.
- 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
- 1996 – Australian census conducted.
- 1997 – Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled Apple Computer.
- 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
From 2001 Edit
- 2001 – President George W. Bush receives President's Daily Briefing entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US.
- 2002 – Marquis de la Fayette is made Honorary Citizen of the United States.
- 2002 – Manindra Agrawal et al. prove the long-standing number theory conjecture in the article entitled "Primes in P".
- 2008 – In Mauritania, President Sidi Ould Sheikh Abdallahi is removed from office in a military coup, led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
- 2010 - In relation to the floods in Pakistan, flash floods also hit the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir, killing 255 people.
- 2011 - The 2011 England riots begin.
- 2012 - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity lands on the surface of the planet Mars, with the intention of finding evidence that life once existed there.
- 2017 - The UEFA Women's Championship is won by the Netherlands, with a 4-2 win in the final over Denmark, who had ended Germany's run of six titles in-a-row in the quarter finals.
Births Edit
Up to 1800 Edit
- 1180 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
- 1504 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1575)
- 1619 - Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
- 1638 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (d. 1715)
- 1644 - Louise de la Valliere, mistress to Louis XIV of France (d. 1710)
- 1666 - Maria Sofia of Neuburg, German-born consort of Peter II of Portugal (d. 1699)
- 1667 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and physician (d. 1748)
- 1682 - Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1712)
- 1697 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)
- 1765 - Petros Mavromichalis, Greek independence leader (d. 1848)
- 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)
- 1775 – Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician (d. 1847)
- 1775 - Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, son of King Charles X of France (d. 1844)
- 1789 - Friedrich List, German economist, businessman and diplomat (d. 1846)
1801 – 1900 Edit
- 1809 – Alfred Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
- 1811 - Judah P. Benjamin, American politician (d. 1884)
- 1826 - Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915)
- 1827 - José Manuel Marroquin, 27th President of Colombia (d. 1908)
- 1835 - Jewett W. Adams, Governor of Nevada (d. 1920)
- 1844 – James Henry Greathead, engineer (d. 1896)
- 1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
- 1857 - Christian Wilhelm Allers, German painter (d. 1915)
- 1859 - Arthur Berson, German meteorologist (d. 1942)
- 1861 – Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (d. 1948)
- 1866 – Matthew Henson, American Arctic explorer (d. 1955)
- 1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet (d. 1955)
- 1874 – Charles Fort, writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena (d. 1932)
- 1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., United States Senator from Maine (d. 1952)
- 1880 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
- 1881 – Leo Carrillo, actor (d. 1961)
- 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist and physician (d. 1955)
- 1881 – Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972)
- 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet (d. 1957)
- 1891 - William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, 13th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1970)
- 1892 – Hoot Gibson, American cowboy actor (d. 1962)
- 1893 – Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
- 1895 - Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban musician and composer (d. 1963)
- 1900 – Cecil H. Green, Texas Instruments founder (d. 2003)
1901 - 1950 Edit
- 1902 – Dutch Schultz, American bootlegger, gangster (d. 1935)
- 1904 – Jean Desses, French couturier (d. 1970)
- 1904 - Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach (d. 1993)
- 1908 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (d. 1997)
- 1908 - Rufino Santos, Filipino cardinal (d. 1973)
- 1908 - Louis Vaida, Hungarian painter (d. 1941)
- 1911 - Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (d. 2014)
- 1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress and comedienne (d. 1989)
- 1914 - Gordon Freeth, Australian politician (d. 2001)
- 1916 – Richard Hofstadter, historian (d. 1970)
- 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister of Malta (d. 2012)
- 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (Night of the Hunter, Cape Fear 1961 version) (d. 1997)
- 1919 – Pauline Betz, American tennis player (d. 2011)
- 1922 – Sir Freddie Laker, American entrepreneur (d. 2006)
- 1922 - Daniel Walker, American politician, Governor of Illinois (d. 2015)
- 1924 - Hélène Martini, French night club owner (d. 2017)
- 1924 - Philippe Washer, Belgian tennis player (d. 2015)
- 1925 - Barbara Bates, American actress (d. 1969)
- 1926 - Janet Asimov, American science fiction writer and psychoanalyst (d. 2019)
- 1926 - Elisabeth Beresford, British author (d. 2010)
- 1926 - Frank Finlay, English actor (d. 2016)
- 1928 – Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
- 1929 - Mike Elliott, Jamaican saxophonist
- 1929 - Kateb Yacine, Algerian writer (d. 1989)
- 1930 - Abbey Lincoln, American jazz singer (d. 2010)
- 1932 – Howard Hodgkin, English painter and print-maker (d. 2017)
- 1933 - Suchinda Kraprayoon, former Prime Minister of Thailand
- 1933 – Ulrich Biesinger, German footballer (d. 2011)
- 1934 – Chris Bonington, English mountaineer
- 1934 - Piers Anthony, English author
- 1934 - Diane di Prima, American poet
- 1935 - Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (d. 2012)
- 1935 - Mario Coluna, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer (d. 2014)
- 1937 – Charlie Haden, American musician (d. 2014)
- 1937 - Barbara Windsor, British actress
- 1937 - Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian musician (d. 2000)
- 1938 - Peter Bonerz, American actor and director
- 1940 - Louise Sorel, American actress
- 1940 - Mukhu Aliyev, Russian politician, 2nd President of Dagestan
- 1940 - Egil Kapstad, Norwegian pianist
- 1942 - Evelyn Hamann, German actress (d. 2007)
- 1943 – Jon Postel, American creator of the Domain Name System (DNS) (d. 1998)
- 1946 – Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea (d. 2009), possibly born on September 1
- 1946 – Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian
- 1946 - Ron Davies, Welsh politician
- 1948 - Alan Howarth, American composer
- 1949 – Clarence Richard Silva, Roman Catholic bishop of Honolulu
1951 – 1975 Edit
- 1951 – Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
- 1951 - Catherine Hicks, American actress
- 1951 - Christophe de Margerie, French businessman (d. 2014)
- 1952 - David McLetchie, Scottish politician (d. 2013)
- 1955 - Rusty Magee, American actor and composer (d. 2003)
- 1955 - Tom Sandberg, Norwegian skier
- 1957 - Renato Soru, Italian politician and businessman, founder of Tiscali
- 1957 – Jim McGreevey, American politician, former Governor of New Jersey
- 1959 – Joyce Sims, American singer-songwriter
- 1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Chinese-Malaysian actress
- 1962 - Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor
- 1963 - Charles Ingram, British game show contestant
- 1963 - Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker and author
- 1964 - Gary Valenciano, Filipino singer-songwriter, producer and actor
- 1965 - Juliane Köhler, German actress
- 1965 – David Robinson, American basketball player
- 1965 – Mark Speight, English television presenter (d. 2008)
- 1968 - Lisa Boyle, American actress and model
- 1969 - Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
- 1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American movie director, writer, producer, actor
- 1971 – Merrin Dungey, actress
- 1971 - Federico Giunti, Italian footballer
- 1972 – Geri Halliwell, English singer (Spice Girls)
- 1973 - Donna Lewis, Welsh singer and composer
- 1975 - Jason Crump, Australian speedway rider
- 1975 - Renate Götschl, Austrian skier
From 1976 Edit
- 1976 - Soleil Moon Frye, American actress
- 1976 – Melissa George, actress
- 1977 - Jennifer Lyons, American actress
- 1977 - Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer
- 1978 - Marisa Miller, American actress
- 1978 – Billy Klippert, singer
- 1979 - Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist
- 1979 - Jaime Correa, Mexican footballer
- 1979 - Megumi Okina, Japanese actress and singer
- 1980 - Roman Weidenfeller, German footballer
- 1981 - Travie McCoy, American rapper and songwriter
- 1981 - Abdul Kader Keïta, footballer from Ivory Coast
- 1982 - Romola Garai, British actress
- 1983 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
- 1984 – Vedad Ibisevic, footballer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1984 - Sofia Essaidi, French-Moroccan singer, dancer and actress
- 1985 - Jesse Ryder, New Zealand cricketer
- 1985 - Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer
- 1987 - Aditya Narayan, Indian actor and singer
- 1987 - Charley Chase, American pornographic actress
- 1987 - Joran van der Sloot, Dutch murderer
- 1988 - Chelsee Healey, English actress
- 1988 - Aleska Diamond, Hungarian pornographic actress
- 1990 – JonBenét Ramsey, young beauty queen and victim of crime (d. 1996)
- 1991 - Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
- 1993 - Kaori Ishihara, Japanese voice actress
- 1998 - Jack Scanlon, British actor
- 2001 - Ty Simpkins, American actor
Deaths Edit
Up to 1900 Edit
- 258 - Pope Sixtus II
- 523 - Pope Hormisdas (b. 450)
- 1162 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. 1113)
- 1195 - Henry the Lion, son of Henry X, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1129)
- 1221 - Saint Dominic, Spanish monk and founder of the Dominican Order (b. 1170)
- 1272 - King Stephen V of Hungary (b. 1239)
- 1328 - Galeazzo I Visconti, ruler of Milan (b. 1277)
- 1414 - Ladislaus of Naples (b. 1377)
- 1458 - Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
- 1623 - Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare (b. 1555)
- 1660 – Diego Velazquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
- 1694 - Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
- 1746 - King Christian VI of Denmark (b. 1699)
- 1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (b. 1711)
- 1794 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
- 1828 - Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1785)
- 1875 - Gabriel Garcia Moreno, President of Ecuador (b. 1821)
- 1881 - James Springer White, American preacher and author (b. 1821)
- 1890 - William Kemmler, American murderer, executed on the electric chair (b. 1860)
- 1891 - Henry Litolff, English pianist and composer (b. 1818)
- 1893 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (b. 1811)
1901 – 2000 Edit
- 1904 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music writer and critic (b. 1825)
- 1914 – Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of US President Woodrow Wilson (b. 1860)
- 1920 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (b. 1890)
- 1925 - Surendranath Banerjee, Indian politician (b. 1848)
- 1931 - Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz cornetist and pianist (b. 1903)
- 1945 - Richard Bong, American pilot (b. 1920)
- 1945 - Hiram Johnson, Governor of California (b. 1866)
- 1954 – Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets (b. 1934)
- 1959 - Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter and director (b. 1898)
- 1964 - Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893)
- 1969 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher (b. 1903)
- 1973 – Fulgencio Batista, President of Cuba (b. 1901)
- 1974 - Gene Ammons, American saxophonist (b. 1925)
- 1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist (b. 1903)
- 1978 – Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
- 1978 – Edward Durrell Stone, American architect (b. 1902)
- 1979 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist (b. 1911)
- 1983 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
- 1985 – Forbes Burnham, leader of Guyana (b. 1923)
- 1986 - Emilio Fernandez, Mexican actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1904)
- 1991 - Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer, politician and diplomat (b. 1900)
- 1991 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician (b. 1915)
- 1991 - Harry Reasoner, American journalist (b. 1923)
- 1993 - Bob Kiesel, American athlete (b. 1911)
- 1994 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter, actor and politician (b. 1928)
- 1994 - Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (b. 1925)
- 1998 - André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
From 2001 Edit
- 2001 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
- 2002 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
- 2005 – Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
- 2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer (b. 1927)
- 2007 - Heinz Barth, German SS officer (b. 1920)
- 2009 - Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (b. 1909)
- 2009 - Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
- 2009 – John Hughes, American movie director (b. 1950)
- 2010 - Fredrik Ericsson, Swedish mountaineer (b. 1975)
- 2010 - Catfish Collins, American musician (b. 1944)
- 2010 – Tony Judt, British historian (b. 1948)
- 2012 - Bernard Lovell, British physicist and radio astronomer (b. 1913)
- 2012 - Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist (b. 1918)
- 2012 - Marvin Hamlisch, American composer (b. 1944)
- 2013 - Selcuk Yula, Turkish footballer (b. 1959)
- 2014 - Pran Kumar Sharma, Indian cartoonist (b. 1938)
- 2014 - Smita Talwalkar, Indian actress (b. 1954)
- 2014 - John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist (b. 1927)
- 2014 - Julien Fourgeaud, French businessman and inventor (b. 1980)
- 2015 - Orna Porat, German-Israeli actress (b. 1924)
- 2015 - Louise Suggs, American tennis player (b. 1923)
- 2016 - Ivo Pitanguy, Brazilian plastic surgeon (b. 1926)
- 2017 - Nicole Bricq, French politician (b. 1947)
- 2017 - Betty Cuthbert, Australian athlete (b. 1938)
- 2017 - Darren Daulton, American baseball player (b. 1962)
- 2017 - Hinrich Lehmann-Grube, German politician (b. 1932)
- 2017 - Martin Roth, German museum director (b. 1955)
- 2017 - Dick Locher, American cartoonist (b. 1929)
- 2017 - Wolfgang H. Berger, German-American oceanographer and geologist (b. 1937)
- 2018 - Margaret Heckler, American politician (b. 1931)
- 2018 - Paul Laxalt, American politician, 22nd Governor of Nevada (b. 1922)
- 2018 - Joël Robuchon, French chef and cookbook writer (b. 1945)