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What happend on 6. August in History
In our data base we found 347 events happened on 6. August:
• 258: Pope Sixtus II [category: Deaths]
• 523: Pope Hormisdas (b. 450) [category: Deaths]
• 1162: Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. 1113) [category: Deaths]
• 1180: Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239) [category: Births]
• 1195: Henry the Lion, German son of Henry X, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1129) [category: Deaths]
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• 1221: Saint Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominican Order (b. 1170) [category: Deaths]
• 1272: Stephen V of Hungary (b. 1239) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1414: Ladislaus of Naples (b. 1377) [category: Deaths]
• 1458: Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378) [category: Deaths]
• 1504: Matthew Parker, English Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1575) [category: Births]
• 1506: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk [category: Events]
• 1538: Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. [category: Events]
• 1609: Richard Bennett, English Governor of the Colony of Virginia (d. 1675) [category: Births]
• 1619: Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677) [category: Births]
• 1623: Anne Hathaway, English wife of William Shakespeare (b. 1555 or 1556) [category: Deaths]
• 1628: Johannes Junius, German politician, victim of the Bamberg witch trials (b. 1573) [category: Deaths]
• 1637: Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572) [category: Deaths]
• 1638: Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (d. 1715) [category: Births]
• 1644: Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710) [category: Births]
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• 1645: Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant and politician (b. 1575) [category: Deaths]
• 1656: Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d. 1733) [category: Births]
• 1657: Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian hetman (b. 1595) [category: Deaths]
• 1660: Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599) [category: Deaths]
• 1661: The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic. [category: Events]
• 1666: Maria Sofia of Neuburg (d. 1699) [category: Births]
• 1679: John Snell, Scottish-English founder of the Snell Exhibition (b. 1629) [category: Deaths]
• 1694: Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612) [category: Deaths]
• 1695: François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop (b. 1625) [category: Deaths]
• 1697: Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745) [category: Births]
• 1715: Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (d. 1747) [category: Births]
• 1753: Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (b. 1711) [category: Deaths]
• 1757: Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian painter (b. 1673) [category: Deaths]
• 1759: Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704) [category: Deaths]
• 1765: Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1848) [category: Births]
• 1766: William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828) [category: Births]
• 1768: Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (d. 1813) [category: Births]
• 1775: Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician (d. 1847) [category: Births]
• 1777: American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix. [category: Events]
• 1787: Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [category: Events]
• 1794: Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, English lawyer and politician (b. 1714) [category: Deaths]
• 1806: Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire. [category: Events]
• 1809: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892) [category: Births]
• 1815: James A. Bayard, American politician (b. 1767) [category: Deaths]
• 1819: Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States. [category: Events]
• 1825: Bolivia gains independence from Spain. [category: Events]
• 1826: Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915) [category: Births]
• 1828: Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and diplomat (b. 1785) [category: Deaths]
• 1844: Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900) [category: Births]
• 1844: James Henry Greathead, English engineer (d. 1896) [category: Births]
• 1845: The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia. [category: Events]
• 1846: Anna Haining Bates, Canadian giant (d. 1888) [category: Births]
• 1850: Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805) [category: Deaths]
• 1861: Edith Roosevelt, American wife of Theodore Roosevelt, 27th First Lady of the United States (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1861: The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1866: Allen Lard, American golfer (death date unknown) [category: Births]
• 1866: John Mason Neale, English scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818) [category: Deaths]
• 1868: Paul Claudel, French poet (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1870: Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory. [category: Events]
• 1874: Charles Fort, American writer (d. 1932) [category: Births]
• 1877: Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1880: Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1881: Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1881: Leo Carrillo, American actor (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1881: Louella Parsons, American columnist (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1881: James Springer White, American preacher and author, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821) [category: Deaths]
• 1882: Ernst Eklund, Swedish actor (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1883: Scott Nearing, American writer and educator (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1884: Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812) [category: Deaths]
• 1886: Edward Ballantine, American composer (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1887: Dudley Benjafield, English race car driver (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1888: Heinrich Schlusnus, German singer (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1889: George Kenney, American general (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1889: John Middleton Murry, English poet (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1890: William Kemmler, American murderer (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1890: At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair. [category: Events]
• 1891: William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1892: Hoot Gibson, American actor (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1893: Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1893: Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (b. 1811) [category: Deaths]
• 1895: Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1900: Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1901: Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation. [category: Events]
• 1902: Dutch Schultz, American mobster (d. 1935) [category: Births]
• 1904: Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1904: Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1904: Eduard Hanslick, Austrian critic (b. 1825) [category: Deaths]
• 1906: Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1907: László Heller, Hungarian engineer (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1908: Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1908: Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1908: Will Lee, American actor (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1910: Charles Crichton, English director (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1911: Constance Heaven, English author (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1911: Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1911: Norman Gordon, South African cricketer [category: Births]
• 1912: Richard C. Miller, American photographer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1912: The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum. [category: Events]
• 1914: Ellen Axson Wilson, American wife of Woodrow Wilson, 29th First Lady of the United States (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 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 Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea. [category: Events]
• 1914: World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1916: Dom Mintoff, Maltese politician and journalist, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1916: Richard Hofstadter, American historian (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1917: Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1917: World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins. [category: Events]
• 1918: Norman Granz, American record producer (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1920: Ella Raines, American actress (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1920: Stefan Bastyr, Polish pilot and author (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1922: Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1923: Jess Collins, American artist (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1924: Samuel Bowers, American murder, co-founded White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1925: Barbara Bates, American actress (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1925: Surendranath Banerjee, Indian leader of the Indian National Congress (b. 1848) [category: Deaths]
• 1926: Clem Labine, American baseball player (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1926: Elisabeth Beresford, English author (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1926: Frank Finlay, English actor [category: Births]
• 1926: János Rózsás, Hungarian writer [category: Births]
• 1926: Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1926: Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel. [category: Events]
• 1926: In New York, New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore. [category: Events]
• 1928: Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1928: Herb Moford, American baseball player (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1929: Mike Elliott, Jamaican saxophonist (The Foundations) [category: Births]
• 1929: Roch La Salle, Canadian politician (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1930: Abbey Lincoln, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1930: Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again. [category: Events]
• 1931: Chalmers Johnson, American scholar and author (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1931: Bix Beiderbecke, American cornetist, pianist, and composer (The Wolverines) (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1932: Howard Hodgkin, English painter [category: Births]
• 1933: A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1934: Billy Boston, Welsh rugby player [category: Births]
• 1934: Chris Bonington, English mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1934: Piers Anthony, English writer [category: Births]
• 1935: Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1935: Octavio Getino, Spanish-Argentine director (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1937: Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1937: Barbara Windsor, English actress [category: Births]
• 1938: Paul Bartel, American actor (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1938: Peter Bonerz, American actor [category: Births]
• 1940: Louise Sorel, American actress [category: Births]
• 1940: Mukhu Aliyev, Russian politician [category: Births]
• 1940: Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union. [category: Events]
• 1941: Lyle Berman, American poker player [category: Births]
• 1941: Ray Culp, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1942: Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1942: George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler [category: Births]
• 1942: Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress. [category: Events]
• 1943: Jon Postel, American computer scientist (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1944: Inday Badiday, Filipino journalist (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1945: Andy Messersmith, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1945: Ron Jones, English director (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1945: Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Richard Bong, American pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Yi Wu, Korean prince and army officer (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1946: Allan Holdsworth, English guitarist and composer (UK, The Tony Williams Lifetime, HoBoLeMa, and Tempest) [category: Births]
• 1946: Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian, actor, and musician (The Spiders) [category: Births]
• 1946: Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Tony Dell, Australian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1949: Alan Campbell, Irish pastor [category: Births]
• 1949: Clarence Richard Silva, American bishop [category: Births]
• 1949: Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian wrestler (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1950: Dorian Harewood, American actor [category: Births]
• 1951: Catherine Hicks, American actress [category: Births]
• 1951: Daryl Somers, Australian television host [category: Births]
• 1952: Pat MacDonald, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Timbuk3) [category: Births]
• 1952: Ton Scherpenzeel, Dutch keyboard player, composer, and producer (Kayak Camel, and Earth and Fire) [category: Births]
• 1952: Vinnie Vincent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Kiss and Vinnie Vincent Invasion) [category: Births]
• 1953: Iqbal Qasim, Pakistani cricketer [category: Births]
• 1953: Pope Pius XII establishes the Dioceses of Norwich and Bridgeport and makes the Diocese of Hartford an archdiocese. [category: Events]
• 1954: Paul Steigerwald, American sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1955: Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1955: Rusty Magee, American composer (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1956: Stepfanie Kramer, American actress [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1957: Bob Horner, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1957: Jim McGreevey, American politician [category: Births]
• 1957: Ernest Linton, Canadian football player (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Randy DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and bass player (DeBarge) [category: Births]
• 1959: Rajendra Singh Indian water conservationist [category: Births]
• 1959: Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter, and director (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Dale Ellis, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1960: Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation. [category: Events]
• 1962: Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor [category: Births]
• 1962: Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress [category: Births]
• 1962: Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom. [category: Events]
• 1963: Charles Ingram, English game show contestant and author [category: Births]
• 1963: Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker and author [category: Births]
• 1964: Gary Valenciano, Filipino singer-songwriter, producer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1964: Moosie Drier, American actor and director [category: Births]
• 1964: Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down. [category: Events]
• 1965: David Robinson, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1965: Juliane Köhler, German actress [category: Births]
• 1965: Mark Speight, English television host (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1965: Vincent Wells, England cricketer [category: Births]
• 1965: Yuki Kajiura, Japanese pianist and composer (See-Saw) [category: Births]
• 1965: The largest swimming pool in Europe was opened in Fürstenfeld, Austria. [category: Events]
• 1965: US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. [category: Events]
• 1966: Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, Nebraska killing all 42 on board. [category: Events]
• 1967: Julie Snyder, Canadian talk show host and producer [category: Births]
• 1967: Mike Greenberg, American sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1968: Jack de Gier, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1969: Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Heatmiser (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1969: Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer [category: Births]
• 1969: Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Erwin Thijs, Belgian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1970: M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, screenwriter, and producer [category: Births]
• 1970: Nikos Tsiforos, Greek screenwriter and director (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Merrin Dungey, American actress [category: Births]
• 1971: Piyal Wijetunge, Sri Lankan cricketer [category: Births]
• 1971: Scott Minto, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1972: Geri Halliwell, English singer-songwriter, author, and actress (Spice Girls) [category: Births]
• 1972: Ray Lucas, American football player [category: Births]
• 1973: Karenna Gore Schiff, American journalist, lawyer, and author [category: Births]
• 1973: Max Kellerman, American sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1973: Monica Goodling, American lawyer [category: Births]
• 1973: Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1973: Vera Farmiga, American actress [category: Births]
• 1973: Fulgencio Batista, Cuban military leader and politician, President of Cuba (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Memphis Minnie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Alvin Williams, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Bobby Petta, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Ever Carradine, American actress [category: Births]
• 1974: Luis Vizcaíno, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Gene Ammons, American saxophonist (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Renate Götschl, Austrian skier [category: Births]
• 1975: Víctor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Melissa George, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1976: Soleil Moon Frye, American actress [category: Births]
• 1976: Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi. [category: Events]
• 1977: Jennifer Lyons, American actress [category: Births]
• 1977: Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Luciano Zavagno, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Brian Maillard, Swiss guitarist (Dominici) [category: Births]
• 1978: Marisa Miller, American model and actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Marvel Smith, American football player [category: Births]
• 1978: Reuben Rox, American actor, director, and producer [category: Births]
• 1978: Edward Durell Stone, American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Pope Paul VI (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1979: Jaime Correa, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Megumi Okina, Japanese actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1979: Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: András Horváth, Hungarian footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Charles McCarthy, American mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1980: Danny Collins, Welsh footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Monique Ganderton, Canadian actress and stunt-woman [category: Births]
• 1980: Seneca Wallace, American football player [category: Births]
• 1980: Wilber Pan, American-Taiwanese singer, producer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Diána Póth, Hungarian figure skater [category: Births]
• 1981: Travie McCoy, American rapper and songwriter (Gym Class Heroes) [category: Births]
• 1981: Vitantonio Liuzzi, Italian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1982: Adrianne Curry, American model, actress, and producer [category: Births]
• 1982: Danny Lopes, American model and actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Jordis Unga, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1982: Karl Davies, English actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Kevin van der Perren, Belgian figure skater [category: Births]
• 1982: Romola Garai, English actress and model [category: Births]
• 1982: Ryan Sypek, American actor [category: Births]
• 1983: Annevig Schelde Ebbe, Danish actress [category: Births]
• 1983: C.J. Mosley, American football player [category: Births]
• 1983: Landon Pigg, American singer-songwriter and actor [category: Births]
• 1983: Neil Harvey, English-Barbadian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Klaus Nomi, German singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Sofia Essaïdi, French-Moroccan singer, dancer, and actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Vedad Ibišević, Bosnian footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer [category: Births]
• 1985: Mickaël Delage, French cyclist [category: Births]
• 1985: Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player [category: Births]
• 1986: Reby Sky, American model and wrestler [category: Births]
• 1986: Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1987: Aditya Narayan, Indian actor, singer, and composer [category: Births]
• 1987: Charley Chase, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Joran van der Sloot, Dutch murderer [category: Births]
• 1987: Ira C. Eaker, American general (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Aleska Diamond, Hungarian porn actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Chelsee Healey, English actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Jared Murillo, American singer and dancer (V Factory) [category: Births]
• 1988: The Tompkins Square Park Riot in New York City spurs a reform of the NYPD, held responsible for the event. [category: Events]
• 1990: JonBenét Ramsey, American model and murder victim (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1990: Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. [category: Events]
• 1991: Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer [category: Births]
• 1991: Harry Reasoner, American journalist (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 20th Governor General of Canada (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician, 74th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives. [category: Events]
• 1991: Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet. [category: Events]
• 1992: Leszek Błażyński, Polish boxer (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Heavy rains and debris kill 72 in the Kagoshima and Aira areas of Kyushu, Japan. [category: Events]
• 1994: Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter, actor, and politician (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms. [category: Events]
• 1997: Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228. [category: Events]
• 1998: Jack Scanlon, English actor [category: Births]
• 1998: André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Ty Simpkins, American actor [category: Births]
• 2001: Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Wilhelm Mohnke, German SS staff guard (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu. [category: Events]
• 2002: Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Rick James, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Mynah Birds) (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Keter Betts, American bassist (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Robin Cook, Scottish politician (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Heinz Barth, German SS officer (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (Bikini) (b. 1969) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Angelos Kitsos, Greek lawyer, scriptwriter, and author (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. [category: Events]
• 2008: Competition in the 2008 Summer Olympics in China proceeded with the women's association football tournament. [category: Events]
• 2009: John Hughes, American director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: W. S. Rendra, Indonesian poet and playwright (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mink DeVille) (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people. [category: Events]
• 2011: Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: A peaceful march in protest of the death of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, London ends in a riot, sparking off a wave of rioting throughout the country over the following four nights. [category: Events]
• 2012: Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Dan Roundfield, American basketball player (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Eleftherios Verivakis, Greek politician (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Mark O'Donnell, American playwright and author (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Marvin Hamlisch, American composer, conductor, and pianist (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Richard Cragun, American ballet dancer (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Robert Hughes, Australian critic and writer (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars. [category: Events]
• _: August 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day. (United Arab Emirates) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony (Hiroshima, Japan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bolivia from Spain in 1825. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Justus and Pastor [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The beginning of Tanabata festival. (Sendai, Japan) [category: Holidays and observances]