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
- 1538 –Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1870 –Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
- 1890 –At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
- 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.
- 1915 –World War I: Battle of Sari Bair – the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
- 1942 –Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
- 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.
- 1962 –Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1965 –The largest swimming pool in Europe was opened in Fürstenfeld, Austria.
- 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.
- 2011 –A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38.
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