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
- 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.
- 1806 –Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1825 –Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
- 1845 –The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
- 1861 –The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.
- 1890 –At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
- 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.
- 1926 –Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
- 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.
- 1964 –Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world’s oldest tree, is cut down.
- 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.
- 1988 –The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs a reform of the NYPD, held responsible for the event.
- 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.
- 1997 –Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
- 2011 –A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38.
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