About August 6
August 6, 2024 is the 219th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 147 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 176 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 6
- 1284 –The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
- 1806 –Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1825 –Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
- 1845 –The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
- 1862 –American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad Ship CSS is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- 1912 –The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
- 1914 –World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Helgoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
- 1926 –Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
- 1926 –In New York City, the Warner Brothers’ Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
- 1940 –Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.
- 1942 –Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
- 1953 –Venerable Pius XII establishes the Dioceses of Norwich and Bridgeport and makes the Diocese of Hartford an archdiocese.
- 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.
- 1964 –Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world’s oldest tree, is cut down.
- 1965 –The largest swimming pool in Europe was opened in Fürstenfeld, Austria.
- 1966 –Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.
- 1976 –Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
- 1993 –Heavy rains and debris kill 72 in the Kagoshima and Aira areas of Kyūshū, Japan.
- 1996 –NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
- 2008 –A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
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