6 August
Notable Births
Takhmina Ikromova
b. 2004
Uzbekistani rhythmic gymnast
Nessa Barrett
b. 2002
American singer-songwriter and media personality (born 2002)
Hunter Greene
b. 1999
American baseball player (born 1999)
Rebeka Masarova
b. 1999
Spanish–Swiss tennis player (born 1999)
Rebecca Peterson
b. 1995
Swedish tennis player (born 1995)
Wilmer Flores
b. 1991
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1991)
Leanne Crichton
b. 1987
Scottish footballer
Raphael Pyrasch
b. 1986
Germany international rugby union player
Mickaël Delage
b. 1985
Road bicycle racer (born 1985)
Bafétimbi Gomis
b. 1985
French footballer (born 1985)
Garrett Weber-Gale
b. 1985
American swimmer (born 1985)
Vedad Ibišević
b. 1984
Bosnian footballer (born 1984)
Maja Ognjenović
b. 1984
Serbian volleyball player
Robin van Persie
b. 1983
Dutch football player and coach (born 1983)
Leslie Odom Jr.
b. 1981
American actor, singer and songwriter (born 1981)
Diána Póth
b. 1981
Hungarian figure skater
Francesco Bellotti
b. 1979
Italian cyclist
Jaime Correa (footballer)
b. 1979
Mexican footballer (born 1979)
Travis Reed
b. 1979
American basketball player
Jimmy Nielsen
b. 1977
Danish footballer (born 1977)
Notable Deaths
Billy Bean
d. 2024
American baseball player (1964–2024)
Connie Chiume
d. 2024
South African actress and filmmaker (1952–2024)
James Bjorken
d. 2024
American physicist (1934–2024)
Vern Rumsey
d. 2020
American musician (1973–2020)
Joël Robuchon
d. 2018
French chef and restaurateur
Margaret Heckler
d. 2018
American politician (1931–2018)
Betty Cuthbert
d. 2017
Australian sprinter (1938–2017)
Darren Daulton
d. 2017
American baseball player (1962–2017)
Orna Porat
d. 2015
German-born Israeli theater actress
Ralph Bryans
d. 2014
British motorcycle racer
Ananda W. P. Guruge
d. 2014
Sri Lankan diplomat
John Woodland Hastings
d. 2014
American biologist
Stan Lynde
d. 2013
American journalist
Mava Lee Thomas
d. 2013
American baseball player
Jerry Wolman
d. 2013
American developer (1927–2013)
Richard Cragun
d. 2012
American ballet dancer
Marvin Hamlisch
d. 2012
American composer and conductor (1944–2012)
Robert Hughes (critic)
d. 2012
Australian-born art critic (1938–2012)
Bernard Lovell
d. 2012
English physicist and radio astronomer (1913–2012)
Ruggiero Ricci
d. 2012
American violinist (1918–2012)
On This Day in History
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2015
A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.
2015 Abha mosque bombing
2012
NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
NASA
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.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
2010
Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
2010 Ladakh floods
2008
A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
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.
Erwadi fire incident
1997
Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam, killing 229 of the 254 people on board.
Korean Air Flight 801
1996
NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
NASA
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.
Tim Berners-Lee
1991
Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
Takako Doi
1990
Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
Gulf War
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.
New South Wales
1965
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
Lyndon B. Johnson
1962
Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
Jamaica
1960
Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
Cuban Revolution
1958
Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy, outlawing the Communist Party of Chile and banning 26,650 persons from the electoral lists, is repealed in Chile.
Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy
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.
1955
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.
World War II
1942
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
1940
Estonia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
Estonia