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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 6-9 | No Nukes, No Wars, No Profiteers (944 words)
In August 6th , 1945 , I was 13 years old, a sophomore at a girls’ high school in Hiroshima . As we mark the 62nd anniversaries, on August 6th and 9th, of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it's time to realize that we've been pushing our luck. August 9th also marked the UN’s “International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples,” and many of the day’s events reflected this, noting that indigenous peoples around the world have been victims of the entire nuclear cycle, from uranium mining to atmospheric testing.
August Climate Information - National Weather Service Forecast Office - WFO, Austin/San Antonio, Texas (1581 words)
August is a month where days get a little shorter and the summer sun moves more rapidly south; however, for South Central Texas the heat usually goes on, sometimes bringing the hottest days of the year in some years, and the warmest month of all 12 in other years. On Saturday, August 9th, the high at Del Rio was 108, breaking the previous record high for August 8th of 107 set in 1953. In late August of 1998 , the remnants of Tropical Storm Charley caused a flood in the Del Rio area, with 17.84 inches of rain from August 22 to 24, with 17.03 inches coming on August 23, 1998 at Del Rio.
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