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.
- 1506 –The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk
- 1538 –Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
- 1661 –The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
- 1787 –Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
- 1806 –Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1819 –Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
- 1825 –Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
- 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.
- 1914 –World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
- 1930 –Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
- 1960 –Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –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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