August 6

August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining.

Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 1806 - Francis I, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates.
• 1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Peru.
• 1890 - First execution by electric chair
• 1926 - Gertrude Ederle[?] becomes first woman to swim the English Channel.
• 1945 - An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
• 1962 - Jamaica becomes independent.
• 1970 - Yippie[?] day at Disneyland

Births

• 1766 - William Hyde Wollaston, noted English chemist (+ 1828)
• 1776 - Amedeo Avogadro, chemist (+ 1856)
• 1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet: In Memoriam (+ 1892)
• 1868 - Paul Claudel, poet (+ 1955)
• 1880 - Hans Moser[?], actor (+ 1964)
• 1881 - Alexander Fleming, scientist (+ 1955)
• 1881 - Leo Carrillo, actor (+ 1961)
• 1881 - Louella Parsons[?], gossip columnist (+ 1972)
• 1892 - Hoot Gibson[?], cowboy actor (+ 1962)
• 1892 - Lowell Thomas[?], travel writer (+ 1981)
• 1902 - Dutch Schultz[?], bootlegger, gangster (+ 1935)
• 1911 - Lucille Ball, actress, comedian (+ 1989)
• 1916 - Richard Hofstadter[?], historian (+ 1970)
• 1917 - Robert Mitchum, actor: Night of the Hunter[?], Cape Fear[?] (1961 version) (+ 1997)
• 1918 - Otto Wolff von Amerongen[?], industrialist
• 1922 - Sir Freddie Laker, entrepreneur
• 1928 - Andy Warhol, artist (+ 1987)
• 1928 - Jan Kucera[?], author
• 1928 - Chung Se Yung[?], cofounder of the Hyundai Motor Company
• 1932 - Howard Hodgkin, painter and print-maker
• 1943 - Jon Postel, creator of DNS
• 1970 - M. Night Shyamalan, film director, writer, producer, actor
• 1972 - Geri Halliwell, singer

Deaths

• 258 - Saint Pope Sixtus II
• 523 - Saint Pope Hormisdas
• 1221 - Saint Dominic
• 1946 - Tony Lazzeri[?], Major League Baseball player
• 1959 - Preston Sturges[?], playwright, screenwriter, director
• 1964 - Sir Cedric Hardwicke, actor
• 1966 - Cordwainer Smith, writer
• 1978 - Pope Paul VI
• 1991 - Harry Reasoner[?], reporter
• 2001 - Jorge Amado[?], Brazilian writer
• 2002 - Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist

Holidays and observances

• Christianity - Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ[?]
• Bolivia - Independence Day
• Jamaica - Independence Day
• United Arab Emirates - H.H. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day

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See Also:

August 5 - August 7 - July 6 - September 6 -- listing of all days

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