What are the important events that happened on August 6? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 6: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 6 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 24, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,754,438,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectadecaoctagon’ day.
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Leo is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,611 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 6 Historical Events
- 1506 –The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
- 1901 –Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
- 1940 –Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- 1965 –US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
- 1976 –Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
- 1990 –Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
- 1993 –Heavy rains and debris kill 72 in the Kagoshima and Aira areas of Kyūshū, Japan.
- 2011 –A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38.
Who were born on August 6?
- 1619 –Barbara Strozzi (baptized), Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
- 1766 –William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)
- 1904 –Jean Desses, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer (d. 1970)
- 1908 –Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter (d. 1941)
- 1941 –Lyle Berman, American poker player
- 1950 –Dorian Harewood, American actor
- 1962 –Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor
- 1963 –Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker
- 1972 –Geri Halliwell, British singer (Spice Girls)
- 1980 –Danny Collins, Welsh footballer
Who died on August 6?
- 1657 –Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian-born Polish-Lithuanian noble
- 1660 –Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
- 1884 –Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812)
- 1904 –Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
- 1945 –Wu, Prince of Korea (b. 1912)
- 1974 –Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
- 1979 –Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1911)
- 1983 –Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
- 1991 –Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian prime minister (assassinated) (b. 1915)
- 1994 –Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
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