On this day in History - Aug 6

• 0258 - Saint Pope Sixtus II dies
• 0523 - Saint Pope Hormisdas dies
• 1162 - Ramon Berenguer IV dies. Count of Barcelona
• 1221 - Saint Dominic dies / Morre São Domenico de Guzman teólogo espanhol. Foi canonizado em 13 Julho de 1234 pelo Papa Gregorio IX.
• 1272 - King Stephen V of Hungary dies
• 1414 - King Ladislas of Naples dies (b. 1377)
• 1458 - Pope Callixtus III dies
• 1504 - Matthew Parker was born (d. 1575). Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
• 1539 - Capitão Gonzalo Suárez Rondón funda a cidade de Tunja - Colômbia
• 1619 - Barbara Strozzi was born (d. 1677). Italian singer and composer
• 1637 - Ben Jonson dies (b. 1572). English dramatist and poet
• 1638 - Nicolas Malebranche was born (d. 1715). French philosopher.
• 1644 - Louise de la Vallière was born (d. 1710). French mistress of Louis XIV of France
• 1656 - Claude de Forbin was born (d. 1733). French naval commander.
• 1660 - Diego Velázquez dies (b. 1599). Spanish painter.
• 1666 - D. Maria Sofia Isabel de Neuburgo was born. Queen of Portugal.
• 1667 - Johann Bernoulli was born. Matematician who was a Major member of the Bernoulli family of Swiss mathematicians. He investigated the then new mathematical calculus, which he applied to the measurement of curves, to differential equations, and to mechanical problems
• 1679 - John Snell dies (b. 1629). English royalist.
• 1695 - François de Harlay de Champvallon dies (b. 1625). Archbishop of Paris.
• 1697 - Niccolo Salvi was born (d. 8 Feb 1751). Italian sculptor.
• 1700 - Johann Beer dies (b. 28. Febr. 1655). Composer.
• 1715 - Luc de Clapier, Marquis de Vauvenargues, was born (d. 1747) . French moralist and essayist.
• 1766 - William Hyde Wollaston was born († 22 Dec 1828). English scientist who discovered palladium (1803) and rhodium (1804), during his investigation of platinum ore.
• 1776 - Amedeo Avogadro was born (d. 9 Jul 1856). Italian chemist.
• 1787 - The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began to debate a draft of the U.S. Constitution.
• 1806 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire. / Francisco II (1768-1835), imperador Habsburgo do Sacro Império Romano-Germânico da Nação Alemã, renunciou ao título, criando o título de Imperador da Áustria, com o nome de Francisco I. Devido à criação da Confederação do Reno, por Napoleão Bonaparte, o Sacro Império tinha de facto deixado de existir
• 1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson was born (d. 6 Oct 1892). English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry : The Charge of the Light Brigade, In Memoriam
• 1813 - Venezuela Simón Bolívar ("El libertador") liberates Caracas.
• 1819 - Norwich University founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States
• 1824 - Perú: batalla de Junín las fuerzas de Simón Bolívar derrotan a las españolas comandadas por Cantarec.
• 1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Peru.
• 1828 - Andrew Taylor Still was born (d. 12 Dec 1917). American founder of osteopathy
• 1838 - George James Symons was born. British meteorologist who strove to provide reliable observational data by imposing standards of accuracy and uniformity on meteorological measurements and by substantially increasing the number of reporting stations.
• 1840 - Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier was born († 18 Mar 1914) . American archeologist, anthropologist and historian who was among the first to study the American Indian cultures of the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Peru-Bolivia.
• 1844 - James Henry Greathead was born (d. 21 Oct 1896). British civil engineer who improved the tunneling shield, the basic tool of underwater tunneling, essentially to its modern formEngineer.
• 1844 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was born (d. 1900)
• 1851 - Uruguay: llega a Montevideo, procedente de Southampton, el primer barco a vapor, el "Prince". Se establece así el servicio regular entre Europa y el Río de la Plata.
• 1861 - British annexation of 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.
• 1868 - Paul Claudel was born (d. 23 Feb 1955). French poet and playwright.
• 1869 - Frank Cobb was born (d. 21 Dec 1923). American journalist and editor of the New York World
• 1872 - Colombia: se funda la Academia Colombiana de la Lengua, la más antigua de las Correspondientes de la Real Academia Española.
• 1874 - Charles Fort was born (d. 1932). Writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena
• 1875 - Francisco Javier León assume a presidência do Equador.
• 1875 - Gabriel García Moreno dies assassinated. President of Ecuador.
• 1877 - Wallace H. White, Jr. was born (d. 1952). U.S. Senator from Maine.
• 1879 - Johann Von Lamont dies (b. 13 Dec 1805). Scottish-born German astronomer noted for discovering (1852) that the magnetic field of the Earth fluctuates with a 10.3-year activity cycle, but does not correlate it with the period of the sunspot cycle
• 1880 - Hans Moser was born in Vienna († 6 Aug 1964). Actor.
• 1881 - Leo Carrillo was born (d. 1961). Actor.
• 1881 - Alexander Fleming was born (d. 11 Mar 1955). Scottish bacteriologist; discovered penicillin in 1928. Laureated in 1945 with the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
• 1881 - Louella Parsons was born (d. 1972). Gossip columnist.
• 1883 - Scott Nearing was born (d. 1983). American conservationist, peace activist, educator and writer.
• 1889 - John Middleton Murry was born (d. 1957). English poet.
• 1890 - At Auburn Prison in New York, the convicted murdetr, with murderer William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in the electric chair.
• 1890 - Renuncia do presidente argentino Miguel Juárez Celman
• 1892 - Hoot Gibson was born (d. 1962). Actor.
• 1893 - Wright Patman was born (d. 1976). American politician.
• 1900 - Cecil H. Green was born (d. 2003). American geophysicist and businessman.
• 1902 - Dutch Schultz was born (d. 1935). American bootlegger and gangster.
• 1904 - Jean Desses was born (d. 1970). French couturier.
• 1904 - Aleksander Bocheński was born († 2001) . Polish publicist and essayst (DZIEJE GLUPOTY W POLSCE - Pamflety dziejopisarskie )
• 1904 - Eduard Hanslick dies. Music critic
• 1906 - Cátulo Castillo was born in Buenos Aires (d. 19 Oct 1975). Argentine dramatist, composer and writer of lyrics for tangos.
• 1911 - Lucille Ball was born (d. 1989). American radio, film and television actress and comedy star.
• 1911 - Florentino Ameghino dies (b. 18 Sep 1854). Argentinian Paleontologist , naturalist.
• 1914 - Ronald Duncan was born (d. 3 Jun 1982). English playwright, poet and writer
• 1915 - Portugal: Bernardino Machado is elected to President of Republic
• 1915 - World War I: Battle of Battle of Sari Bair begins - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
• 1916 - Richard Hofstadter was born (d. 24 Oct 1970). Physicist who won the Nobel prize in 1961 for his studies of neutrons and protons.
• 1916 - Michael Burke was born.
• 1917 - Robert Mitchum was born (d. 1 Jul 1997). Actor.
• 1918 - Otto Wolff von Amerongen was born. Industrialist.
• 1919 - António José de Almeida is elected to President of Republic.
• 1922 - Sir Freddie Laker was born. Entrepreneur.
• 1925 - Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro dies (b. 12 Jan 1853). Italian mathematician instrumental in the development of the absolute differential calculus (also called the Ricci calculus), now known as tensor analysis.
• 1926 - Jackie Presser was born (d. 9 Jul 1988). American Teamsters Union leader (1983-88)
• 1926 - Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
• 1926 - In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
• 1928 - Jan Kucera was born. Author .
• 1928 - Chung Se Yung was born. Korean automobile manufacturer
• 1928 - Andy Warhol was born (d. 1987). American artist best known for initiating the Pop art movement.
• 1928 - Herb Moford was born (d. 2005). Baseball player.
• 1929 - Luis García Morales was born in Ciudad Bolívar. Venezuelan poet and intelectual.
• 1930 - Abbey Lincoln was born. Singer, actress
• 1930 - Joseph-Achille Le Bel dies (b. 24 Jan 1847). French chemist who was the first to present a theory on the relationship between molecules and how they absorb or reflect light.
• 1931 - Bix Beiderbecke dies (b. 1903). Jazz musician.
• 1931 - Fundação do Club Atlético Independiente - Uruguai
• 1932 - Howard Hodgkin was born. Painter and print-maker.
• 1932 - Italia - First Venice film festivals
• 1932 - Václav Vojtech dies. Czech explorer.
• 1934 - Haití: las tropas estadounidenses se retiran de la isla, que ocupaban desde 1915 (habían sido invadidas cruentamente por Woodrow Wilson).
• 1934 - Piers Anthony was born. Writer
• 1937 - Baden Powell was born. Brazilian musician.
• 1938 - Paul Bartel was born (d. 2000). American actor, writer and director.
• 1938 - Peter Bonerz was born. Actor-director
• 1940 - União Soviética anexa a Letónia
• 1941 - Cezar Ivănescu was born. Romanian poet "Rod", "La Baad", "Muzeon", "Doina", "Sutrele muţeniei", "Jeu d'amour", "Rosarium".
• 1942 - Jonathan Campbell dies (b. 1875). Film pioneer.
• 1943 - Jon Postel was born (d. 16 Oct 1988). American computer scientist, creator of DNS
• 1943 - Dan Grigore was born. Romanian pianist
• 1945 - World War II: 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 died by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb. / Com a Segunda Guerra Mundial já vencida de fato, os Estados Unidos da América lançam uma bomba atómica sobre a cidade japonesa de Hiroshima. Oitenta mil pessoas morrem imediatamente e mais sessenta mil morreram até o fim do ano de doenças causadas por poeira radioativa.
• 1946 - Roh Moo-hyun was born. President of South Korea
• 1946 - Masaaki Sakai was born. Japanese comedian.
• 1946 - Tony Lazzeri dies. Major League Baseball player.
• 1949 - Clarence Richard Silva was born in Honolulu, Haway. Roman Catholic Bishop of Honolulu.
• 1950 - Melico Salazar dies in San Jose. Costa Rican tenor
• 1950 - Dorian Harewood was born. American actor
• 1951 - Catherine Hicks was born. American actress
• 1951 - Daryl Somers was born. Australian television personality
• 1954 - David Grandison Fairchild dies (b. 7 Apr 1869). American botanist and plant explorer who supervised the introduction of over 20,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the U.S., including soya beans, mangos, alfalfa, nectarines, horseradish, and flowering cherries
• 1957 - Jim McGreevey was born. American politician, Governor of New Jersey
• 1959 - Joyce Sims was born. American singer and songwriter
• 1959 - Argentina: el Partido Comunista es declarado ilegal.
• 1959 - Preston Sturges dies. Playwright, screenwriter, director
• 1960 - Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
• 1962 - Jamaica becomes independent.
• 1962 - Michelle Yeoh was born. Malaysian actress.
• 1963 - Kevin Mitnick was born. Computer hacker
• 1964 - Sir Cedric Hardwicke dies. Actor
• 1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United States law.
• 1966 - Portugal - Inauguração da ponte sobre o Tejo, de 2278 m de comprimento, baptizada na época por Ponte Salazar e após a revolução de 25 de Abril de 1974, denominada Ponte 25 de Abril. de 2278 metros de longitud.
• 1966 - Portugal - São postos em circulação os selos da Emissão Comemorativa da Inauguração da Ponte Salazar.
• 1966 - Cordwainer Smith dies. Writer
• 1968 - Pope Paul VI issues his Encyclical Ecclesiam Suam.
• 1968 - Independência da Suazilândia
• 1969 - Elliott Smith was born (d. 2003). American musician.
• 1969 - Theodor W. Adorno dies (b. 1903). German philosopher
• 1970 - M. Night Shyamalan was born. Film director, writer, producer, and actor ''The Village,'' ''The Sixth Sense''
• 1971 - Merrin Dungey was born. American actress.
• 1972 - Geri Halliwell was born. British singer (Spice girls)
• 1973 - Asia Carrera was born. American pornographic actress.
• 1973 - Fulgencio Batista dies. Cuban dictator
• 1975 - Renate Götschl dies. Austrian alpine skier
• 1975 - Giorgio Rocca dies. Italian alpine skier
• 1975 - Peter Hodgson dies (b. 15 Aug 1912). A marketing executive and entrepreneur who named "Silly Putty" and promoted it as a toy.
• 1976 - Melissa George was born. Australian actress
• 1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky dies (b. 1903). Russian cellist.
• 1978 - Pope Paul VI dies. 263th Pope
• 1978 - Billy Klippert was born. Singer.
• 1981 - Liliana Domínguez was born. Mexican supermodel
• 1982 - Adrianne Curry was born. Reality television
• 1983 - Chile: los partidos de oposición forman la Alianza Democrática.
• 1983 - Klaus Nomi dies. Singer
• 1984 - Pop star Prince releases Purple Rain, the album which would launch him to superstardom.
• 1985 - In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.
• 1985 - Victor Paz Estenssoro takes place on the Presidency of Bolivia.
• 1985 - Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés dies. President of Honduras (1971-1972)
• 1985 -Manoel de Oliveira recebe o Prémio Leão de Ouro Especial do Festival Internacional de Cinema de Veneza, pelo seu filme O Sapato de Cetim, sendo igualmente agraciado com o Prémio Navicella de Ouro pelo Instituto Católico do Cinema Italiano.
• 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.
• 1986 - William J. Schroeder died after living 620 days with the Jarvik 7 artificial heart.
• 1988 - "Police riot" in New York City's Tompkins Square Park
• 1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
• 1990 - Benazir Bhutto government dismissed by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan of India.
• 1990 - JonBenét Ramsey was born (d. 1996). Beauty queen and murder victim.
• 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.
• 1991 - Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
• 1991 - Harry Reasoner dies. Reporter
• 1993 - Tex Hughson dies (b. 1916). Major League Baseball player.
• 1993 - Louis Freeh is confirmed by the United States Senate to be the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• 1993 - The Fugitive opens in theaters, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
• 1994 - Domenico Modugno dies (9 Jan 1928). Italian singer & songwriter
• 1996 - NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
• 1996 - Australian census conducted.
• 1996 - Hernán Siles Zuazo dies. President of Bolivia (1956-1960 e 1982-1985)
• 1997 - Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled Apple Computer.
• 1997 - Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
• 1998 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with President Bill Clinton.
• 1998 - Teodor Yivkov dies. Bulgarian Chief of State.
• 1998 - Andre Weil dies. Mathematician
• 2001 - Jorge Amado dies. Brazilian writer
• 2001 - President George W. Bush receives President's Daily Briefing entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US.
• 2001 - Renúncia do presidente boliviano Hugo Banzer. Jorge Quiroga sucede-lhe na Presidencia
• 2002 - Marquis de la Fayette is made Honorary Citizen of the United States
• 2002 - Manaindra Agrawal et al prove the long standing number theory conjecture in the article entitled "Primes in P".
• 2002 - Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada takes place on the Presidency of Bolivia.
• 2002 - Edsger Dijkstra dies (b. 1930). Dutch computer scientist. Turing Award in 1972
• 2004 - Rick James dies. Musician.
• 2004 - Posse de Antônio Carlos Secchin na Academia Brasileira de Letras.
• 2005 - Em San Jose da California, Estados Unidos, começa a disputar-se o 37º. Campeonato do Mundo de Hóquei em Patins.
• 2005 - Inauguração em Helsínquia, Finlândia, do Campeonato do Mundo de Atletismo.
• 2005 - Keter Betts dies (b. 1928). American jazz bassist.
• 2005 - Robin Cook dies (b. 1946). British politician
• 2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer dies (b. 1927). Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club).
• Christianity - Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ
• Bolivia - Independence Day
• Jamaica - Independence Day
• United Arab Emirates - H.H. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day.