August 06

Tuesday 06, 2002:

Manindra Agrawal et al prove the long standing number theory conjecture in the article entitled "Primes in P".

Sunday 06, 2000:

The Roman Catholic Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under Prefect Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, publishes Dominus Iesus, notable for its lack of the filioque clause in the Latin text of the Nicene Creed.

Wednesday 06, 1997:

Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.

Tuesday 06, 1996:

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

Friday 06, 1993:

The Fugitive opens in theaters, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.

Tuesday 06, 1991:

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

Monday 06, 1990:

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

Saturday 06, 1988:

"Police riot" in New York City's Tompkins Square Park

Wednesday 06, 1986:

A low pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres of rain in a day on Sydney.

Monday 06, 1984:

Pop star Prince releases Purple Rain, the album which would launch him to superstardom.

Friday 06, 1965:

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

Monday 06, 1962:

Jamaica becomes independent.

Saturday 06, 1960:

Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.

Monday 06, 1945:

World War II: the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 dead by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb.

Friday 06, 1926:

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

Friday 06, 1915:

The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

Thursday 06, 1914:

Ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea, begining the First Battle of the Atlantic.

Tuesday 06, 1901:

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

Wednesday 06, 1890:

At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electric chair is performed, with murderer William Kemmler as the subject.

Wednesday 06, 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.

Tuesday 06, 1861:

British annexation of Lagos, Nigeria.

Saturday 06, 1825:

Bolivia gains independence from Spain.

Friday 06, 1819:

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

Wednesday 06, 1806:

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

Saturday 06, 1538:

Bogota, Colombia founded by Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada.

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