About August 6
August 6, 2025 is the 218th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 147 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 195 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 6
- 1787 –Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
- 1819 –Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
- 1825 –Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
- 1861 –The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.
- 1870 –Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
- 1901 –Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
- 1912 –The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
- 1917 –World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
- 1926 –Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
- 1926 –In New York City, the Warner Brothers’ Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
- 1930 –Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
- 1942 –Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
- 1945 –World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when the atomic bomb “Little Boy” is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
- 1962 –Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1966 –Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.
- 1986 –A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney.
- 1996 –NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
- 1997 –Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
- 2008 –A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
- 2011 –A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38.
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