WillDekkard
08-06-2010, 05:47 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - August 6th
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* 1284 Italian city of Pisa is defeated in Battle of Meloria by Genoa, ruining its naval power.
* 1538 Bogotα, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jimιnez de Quesada.
* 1661 The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
* 1787 Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention.
* 1806 Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
* 1819 Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
* 1825 Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
* 1845 The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
* 1861 The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.
* 1862 American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
* 1870 Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Wφrth is fought, resulting 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.
* 1901 Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
* 1909 Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
* 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.
* 1917 World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
* 1926 Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
* 1926 In New York City, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
* 1926 Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
* 1930 Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears.
* 1942 Queen Wilhelmina becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
* 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.
* 1956 After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.
* 1960 Cuban Revolution: in response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
* 1962 Jamaica becomes independent.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1988 The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs reform of the NYPD, who were responsible for the melee that transpired the night of August 6-7.
* 1990 Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
* 1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
* 1991 Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
* 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.
* 1997 Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
* 2008 A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'ιtat in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
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This Date in History - August 6th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1284 Italian city of Pisa is defeated in Battle of Meloria by Genoa, ruining its naval power.
* 1538 Bogotα, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jimιnez de Quesada.
* 1661 The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
* 1787 Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention.
* 1806 Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
* 1819 Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
* 1825 Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
* 1845 The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
* 1861 The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.
* 1862 American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
* 1870 Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Wφrth is fought, resulting 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.
* 1901 Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
* 1909 Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
* 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.
* 1917 World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
* 1926 Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
* 1926 In New York City, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
* 1926 Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
* 1930 Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears.
* 1942 Queen Wilhelmina becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
* 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.
* 1956 After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.
* 1960 Cuban Revolution: in response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
* 1962 Jamaica becomes independent.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1988 The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs reform of the NYPD, who were responsible for the melee that transpired the night of August 6-7.
* 1990 Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
* 1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
* 1991 Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
* 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.
* 1997 Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
* 2008 A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'ιtat in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
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