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
- 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.
- 1825 –Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
- 1861 –The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.
- 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.
- 1914 –World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
- 1917 –World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1960 –Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
- 1964 –Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world’s oldest tree, is cut down.
- 1976 –Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
- 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.
- 1993 –Heavy rains and debris kill 72 in the Kagoshima and Aira areas of Kyūshū, Japan.
- 2001 –Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
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