Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on August 6 throughout history.
The 2015 Abha mosque bombing occurred on 6 August 2015, when a suicide bomb attack killed 17 people at a mosque in the south-western Saudi Arabian city of Abha.
A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program, as well as resear…
NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
The war in Afghanistan was a prolonged armed conflict lasting from 2001 to 2021. It began with an invasion by a United States–led coalition under the name Operation Enduring Freed…
War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a…
The 2010 Ladakh floods occurred on 6 August 2010 across a large part of Ladakh, then part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. 71 towns and villages were damaged, including the main…
Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is a retired Mauritanian military officer and politician who served as the 8th President of Mauritania from 2009 to 2019.
A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould…
The Erwadi fire incident was an incident that occurred on 6 August 2001, when 28 inmates of a faith-based mental asylum died in the fire. All these inmates were bound by chains at…
Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based…
Korean Air Flight 801 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Korean Air, from Gimpo International Airport, Seoul to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, G…
Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam, killing 229 of the 254 people on board.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program, as well as resear…
NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a profe…
Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a…
Takako Doi was a Japanese politician. She was leader of the Japan Socialist Party from 1986 to 1991 and its successor party the Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2003. In the …
Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States. The coalition's efforts were in two phases: Operation Desert Shield, which mar…
Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's…
New South Wales is a state on the east coast of Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Coral …
A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of…
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's…
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean, covering 10,991 square kilometres (4,244 sq mi). It is the third-largest island in the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean, after Cub…
Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
The Cuban Revolution was the military and political movement that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who had ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959. The revolution began after…
Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
In 1948, on the initiative of Chilean President Gabriel González Videla, the Chilean National Congress enacted the Permanent Defense of Democracy Law, referred to by many as the D…
Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy, outlawing the Communist Party of Chile and banning 26,650 persons from the…
1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1955th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 955th year of the 2nd …
After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing…
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many en…
World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29…
Wilhelmina was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, making her the longest-reigning monarch in Dutch history, as well …
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States…
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the w…
Estonia is annexed by the Soviet Union.