Notable Historical Events on August 6th
August 6th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
258 |
St Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
523 |
St Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
768 |
Antipope Constantine II deposed |
939 |
Battle at Simancas - Spain beats Moors |
1181 |
Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers |
1497 |
Italian explorer John Cabot returns to Bristol from North America (Newfoundland) - first European to do so since the Vikings |
1538 |
Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. |
1600 |
Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588 |
1601 |
Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius |
1623 |
Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII |
1625 |
Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen |
1661 |
The Treaty of The Hague is signed whereby the Dutch Republic sells New Holland (Brazil) for 63 tonnes of gold |
1675 |
Russian Tsar Alexis bans foreign hair styles to those below the nobility |
1726 |
Emperor Karel VI & Tsarina Catharine the Great sign military treaty |
1774 |
Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY |
1787 |
Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate |
1806 |
Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Francis II renounces the title, becoming Emperor of Austria. |
1815 |
US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli |
1819 |
Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States. |
1821 |
1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels |
1824 |
Battle at Junan - Simon Bolívar's army defeats the Spanish |
1825 |
Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day) |
1845 |
The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg. |
1856 |
The Great Bell is cast in the Great Clock of Westminster (Big Ben) |
1861 |
US Congress passes First Confiscation Act |
1861 |
Lexington, Kentucky - Union military camp forms in neutral state |
1861 |
The British annex Lagos, Nigeria. |
1862 |
Confederate ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack |
1864 |
Confederate forces evacuate Fort Powell, Mobile Bay, Alamaba |
1870 |
Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France |
1870 |
White conservatives suppresed black vote & captured Tennessee legislature |
1890 |
Denton True "Cy" Young pitches and wins his 1st major league baseball game |
1890 |
At Auburn Prison, New York murderer William Kemmler becomes first person to be executed by electric chair. |
1896 |
France annexes Madagascar |
1901 |
Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation. |
1905 |
26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record) |
1908 |
St Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn |
1909 |
Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip. |
1910 |
NYC Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt |
1914 |
WWI: Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia |
1914 |
WWI: French cavalry enters Belgium |
1914 |
WWI: German Zeppelin bombs Liege, 9 killed |
1914 |
WWI: Serbia declares war against Germany |
1914 |
Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I. |
1915 |
The British land more troops at Suvla Bay on the northern shore of Gallipoli in an effort to break the stalemate on the peninsula |
1917 |
World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins. |
1918 |
Ferdinand Foch becomes Marshal of France during WWI |
1918 |
WWI: 2nd battle of the Marne ends |
1919 |
1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler) |
1919 |
Romanian forces bring down Hungarian Soviet Republic in Budapest |
1921 |
Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins |
1926 |
NY's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel |
1926 |
Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system (NY) |
1926 |
Don Juan with John Barrymore shown |
1930 |
Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in NYC |
1930 |
Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen |
1934 |
US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915 |
1936 |
1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson & Rabbit Warstler of Boston Bees-lead off with HRs |
1937 |
Franco's artillery fires on Madrid |
1937 |
Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest |
1937 |
US & USSR sign trade treaty |
1939 |
1st broadcast of "Dinah Shore Show" on NBC-radio |
1940 |
Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire |
1941 |
Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning |
1942 |
-8] Riots by Dutch Jews |
1942 |
Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine sinks U-210 |
1942 |
Churchill fires Gen Auchinlek as Middle-East commander |
1942 |
Hermann Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder" |
1943 |
US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily |
1944 |
All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died |
1944 |
Anti-German attack at Avranches fails |
1944 |
Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins |
1944 |
US 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes |
1945 |
Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay" |
1945 |
Keith Miller scores 110 in the 4 Victory Test Cricket at Lord's |
1946 |
US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court |
1947 |
1st performance of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 8" |
1948 |
Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics |
1948 |
Willem Drees forms Socialist government (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) in the Netherlands |
1948 |
Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics |
1949 |
Luke Appling record of 2,154 (en route to 2,218) games at shortstop |
1951 |
Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria |
1952 |
Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout |
1953 |
Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military |
1954 |
WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena. |
1958 |
Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles |
1958 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
1960 |
Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto |
1960 |
The UN Security Council lay down rules which would allow UN forces to enter Congo |
1961 |
Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits) |
1961 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
1961 |
1st case of motion sickness in space reported |
1962 |
Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule |
1964 |
Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam |
1964 |
Prometheus, the world's oldest tree, is cut down in Nevada US |
1965 |
32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000) |
1965 |
Beatles release "Help" album in UK |
1965 |
Indian troops invade Pakistan |
1965 |
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act prohibiting voting discrimination against minorities |
1966 |
Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title |
1966 |
Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge in Europe) |
1966 |
US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam |
1967 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
1967 |
Minn Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings |
1967 |
Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play |
1967 |
Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Pro comperto sane |
1969 |
Balt Orioles pull their 3rd triple play (5-4-3 vs KC Royals) |
1970 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1972 |
Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament |
1972 |
Hank Aaron hits 660th & 661st HRs for Braves (record for 1 team) |
1972 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Knoxville Ladies Golf Classic |
1973 |
Roberto Clemente & Warren Spahn inducted into National Baseball Hall of Fame |
1973 |
Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma |
1974 |
6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice |
1974 |
Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash |
1976 |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi. |
1977 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate European Women's Golf Open |
1978 |
60th PGA Championship: John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont CC PA |
1978 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Europea Golf Open |
1979 |
61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills Mich |
1979 |
Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel |
1980 |
University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles & post-season play due to transcript & curriculum abuses |
1981 |
Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron freed |
1981 |
Due to strike, Yanks, A's, Philles & Dodgers declared 1st ½ champs |
1981 |
NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed |
1982 |
22nd Curtis Cup: US, 14½-3½ |
1982 |
California Doug DeCinces hits 3 HRs again in game (did it 5 days ago also) |
1982 |
WQXI (Atlanta) is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system |
1982 |
Three ANC members are sentenced to death in South Africa |
1983 |
Minnesota Vikings beat St Louis Cards 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo) |
1983 |
Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa |
1983 |
Bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of ANC, explodes at a synagogue in Johannesburg, South Africa |
1984 |
203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |
1984 |
Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics |
1985 |
19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB |
1985 |
Major League Baseball Players Association go on strike |
1985 |
Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day) |
1985 |
STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad |
1986 |
Orioles (Dwyer & Sheets) & Rangers (Harrah) hit record 3 grand slams |
1986 |
Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM |
1986 |
Record 3 grand slams hit in game Tx vs Balt (Harrah, Sheets & Dwyer) |
1988 |
Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases |
1988 |
Rich Gossage 300th career save (beats Phillies) |
1988 |
The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs reform of the NYPD, who were responsible for the melee that transpired the night of August 6-7. |
1989 |
"Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 5959 performances |
1989 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open |
1989 |
Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8 |
1989 |
Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia |
1989 |
Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines |
1989 |
Twenty former South African political prisoners, in defiance of the restriction orders, launch a campaign against apartheid laws |
1990 |
NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats |
1990 |
President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan |
1990 |
UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba & Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq |
1991 |
Debbie Doom (US) pitches 2nd consecutive perfect game in women's softball at the Pan American Games, beats Nicaragua, 8-0 |
1991 |
Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet. |
1993 |
Japan Hosokawa government begins |
1993 |
Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical |
1994 |
Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school/Universities |
1995 |
"Damn Yankees" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 510 performances |
1995 |
Dottie Mochrie wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain |
1995 |
Indians & Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose - Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition) |
1995 |
Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb |
1996 |
Korean Air Flight 801 crashes in the United States territory of Guam, killing 228 people |
1996 |
NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars (ALH84001) |
1996 |
George R.R. Martin publishes the epic fantasy novel "A Game of Thrones", the first in his series "A Song of Ice and Fire" |
1996 |
US President Bill Clinton signs a new bill imposing sanctions on non-US companies which invest over $40 million a year in the energy sectors of Iran or Libya |
1997 |
Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc |
1997 |
NHL Nashville Tenn names Barry Trotz as its 1st coach |
2008 |
Access 31 TV stops broadcasting in Perth, Western Australia. |
2008 |
A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'etat in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi |
2011 |
A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38. |
2012 |
Mount Tongariro, New Zealand, erupts for the first time in a century |
2013 |
18 people are killed and 55 are wounded by a car bomb explosion in Damascus, Syria |
2013 |
25 people are killed and 60 are wounded by a series of car bombs in Baghdad, Iraq |
2013 |
1 person is killed and 4 are injured after a hot air balloon crash in Montbovon, Sweden |
2013 |
An alleged chemical weapons attack on Damascus, Syria, is claimed by Syrian rebels |
2016 |
Brazilian Musicians Delight at Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony |
2016 |
UK Police Charge 19-Year-Old With London Stabbings |
2016 |
Brazil's interim president declares Olympic Games open |
2016 |
American TV viewers slam NBC for delaying Rio broadcast |
2016 |
Olympics-Rio kicks off Games with ode to forests, call for peace |
2016 |
US closer to using genetically modified mosquitoes that could fight Zika |
2017 |
US suspends search for missing Marines after crash off Australia |
2017 |
Usain Bolt finishes third to Americans Justin Gatlin, Christian Coleman in final 100 meters race |
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