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August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years ), with 147 days remaining.
Events
1800-1899
1900-1999 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 , the Warner Brothers ' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore . 1945 - World War II : An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy Enola Gay 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).1960 - Cuban Revolution : In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign_owned property in the nation.1962 - Jamaica becomes independent.1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United States law .1984 - Pop star Prince releases Purple Rain , the album which would launch him to superstardom.1985 - In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.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 .1993 - Louis Freeh is confirmed by the United States Senate to be the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 1993 - The Fugitive Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones . 1996 - NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Australian census conducted.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.
2000-2099
Births
1700-1899 1766 - William Hyde Wollaston , noted English chemist (d. 1828 )1776 - Amedeo Avogadro , chemist (d. 1856 )1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson , poet: In Memoriam (d. 1892 )1844 - James Henry Greathead , engineer (d. 1896 )1868 - Paul Claudel , poet (d. 1955 )1880 - Hans Moser , actor (d. 1964 )1881 - Leo Carrillo , actor (d. 1961 )1881 - Alexander Fleming , scientist (d. 1955 ) 1881 - Louella Parsons , gossip columnist (d. 1972 ) 1889 - John Middleton Murry , English poet (d. 1957 )1892 - Hoot Gibson, cowboy actor (d. 1962 )1893 - Wright Patman , American politician (d. 1976 )
1900-1999 1900 - Cecil H. Green , Texas Instruments founder (d. 2003 )1902 - Dutch Schultz , bootlegger, gangster (d. 1935 )1904 - Jean Desses, French couturier (d. 1970 )1911 - Lucille Ball , actress, comedian (d. 1989 )1916 - Richard Hofstadter , historian (d. 1970 )1917 - Robert Mitchum , actor: Night of the Hunter , Cape Fear 1961 version) (d. 1997 )1918 - Otto Wolff von Amerongen, industrialist1922 - Sir Freddie Laker , entrepreneur1928 - Jan Kucera, author1928 - Chung Se Yung, cofounder of the Hyundai Motor Company 1928 - Andy Warhol , artist (d. 1987 ) 1932 - Howard Hodgkin , painter and print-maker1943 - Jon Postel , creator of DNS 1946 - Roh Moo-hyun , President of South Korea1946 - Masaaki Sakai , Japanese comedian 1963 - Kevin Mitnick , computer cracker 1970 - M. Night Shyamalan , film director, writer, producer, actor1971 - Merrin Dungey , actress1972 - Geri Halliwell , singer1973 - Asia Carrera , erotic actress 1976 - Melissa George , actress1978 - Billy Klippert , singer1990 - JonBenét Ramsey , young beauty queen and young victim of crime (d. 1996 )
Deaths
200-1899
1900-1999 1904 - Eduard Hanslick , music critic1931 - Bix Beiderbecke , jazz musician (b. 1903 )1946 - Tony Lazzeri , Major League Baseball player1959 - Preston Sturges , playwright, screenwriter, director1964 - Sir Cedric Hardwicke , actor1966 - Cordwainer Smith , writer1973 - Fulgencio Batista , Cuban dictator1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky , Russian cellist (b. 1903 )1978 - Pope Paul VI 1983 - Klaus Nomi , singer1991 - Harry Reasoner , reporter1993 - Tex Hughson , Major League Baseball player (b. 1916 )1994 - Domenico Modugno , Italian , singer, songwriter Eurovision Song Contest performer, two_time San Remo Music Festival winner1998 - Andre Weil , mathematician
2000-2099
Holidays and observances August 5 - August 7 - July 6 - September 6 -- listing of all days
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August 6 PDB (1262 words)
CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the UAE in May sayingthat a group or Bin Laden supporters was in the U.S . planning attacks with explosives. When this PDB item was presented to the President on August 6 , 2001 , his PDB briefer told him that it was prepared in response to the President's previous questions. The copy of the PDB that has been released is a copy of the PDB prepared for the President, except that three redactions have been made to protect the names of foreign governments that provided information to CIA.
August 6 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1423 words)
August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years ), with 147 days remaining. Japan - Toro Nagashi (Hiroshima) - Floating lantern ceremony to honor those killed by the U.S. atomic bomb in Hiroshima . August 5 - August 7 - July 6 - September 6 -- listing of all days
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