History Events on August 06

Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 228 of 254 people on board.

#Korean_Air_Flight_801

The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.

#Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1912)

Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.

#Battle_of_Wörth

American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.

#American_Revolutionary_War

US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

#Lyndon_B._Johnson

Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.

#Kiowa

World War II: Hiroshima, Japan 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.

#World_War_II

Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.

#Bogotá

Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.

#Franco-Prussian_War

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, New South Wales, Australia.

#New_South_Wales

Estonia is illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.

#Estonia

A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

#Mohamed_Ould_Abdel_Aziz

The Roman Empire lays siege to Betar, effectively ending the Bar Kokhba revolt.

#Betar_(fortress)

The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.

#Warsaw_Uprising

Peruvian War of Independence: The Battle of Junín.

#Peruvian_War_of_Independence

In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

#Warner_Bros.

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 Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

#World_War_I

American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

#American_Civil_War

NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

#NASA

Bolivia gains independence from Spain.

#Bolivia

World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.

#Serbia

Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

#Jamaica

World War I: Battle of M?r??e?ti between the Romanian and German armies begins.

#Battle_of_M?r??e?ti

Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

#Gulf_War

Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

#Gertrude_Ederle

The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.

#Lagos

Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, ending the Holy Roman Empire.

#Francis_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor

A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.

#2015_Abha_mosque_bombing

The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.

#Republic_of_Pisa

Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.

#Takako_Doi

Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.

#Cuban_Revolution

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.

#Wilhelmina_of_the_Netherlands

Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.

#2010_Ladakh_floods

NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

#NASA

War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.

#War_in_Afghanistan_(2001-present)

Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

#Tim_Berners-Lee

Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to a chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.

The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA.

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.

Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears, never to be seen again.

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.

At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.

Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.