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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1917 –World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
- 1940 –Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- 1965 –US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
- 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 –Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan’s first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
- 1996 –NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
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