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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1912 –
    The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
  • 1926 –
    In New York City, the Warner Brothers’ Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
  • 1930 –
    Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
  • 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.
  • 1960 –
    Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
  • 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 –
    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.
  • 1996 –
    NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
  • 2001 –
    Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
  • 2008 –
    A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
  • 2011 –
    A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38.

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