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Events on the 6th of August in history

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06 Aug 0258 St. Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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06 Aug 0523 St. Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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06 Aug 0768 [Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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06 Aug 0939 Battle at Simancas-Spain beats Moors
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06 Aug 1181 Supernova observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers
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06 Aug 1284 The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
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06 Aug 1497 John Cabot returns to Bristol from North-America
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06 Aug 1506 The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk
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06 Aug 1538 Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
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06 Aug 1588 Spanish Armada under Medina Sidonia anchors
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06 Aug 1600 Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588
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06 Aug 1601 Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to Earl Mauritius
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06 Aug 1623 Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII
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06 Aug 1625 Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as Viceroy of Groningen
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06 Aug 1661 Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders
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06 Aug 1661 The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
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06 Aug 1675 Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut
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06 Aug 1726 Emperor Karel VI and tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty
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06 Aug 1774 Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in New York
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06 Aug 1777 American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
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06 Aug 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia begans debate
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06 Aug 1787 Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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06 Aug 1806 Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
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06 Aug 1806 Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, ending the Holy Roman Empire.
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06 Aug 1815 US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli
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06 Aug 1819 Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
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06 Aug 1821 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels
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06 Aug 1824 Battle of Junin Peru.
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06 Aug 1825 Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
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06 Aug 1825 Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
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06 Aug 1845 The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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06 Aug 1854 Congress passes Confiscation Act
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06 Aug 1861 Lexington KY-Union milt camp forms in neutral state
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06 Aug 1861 The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.
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06 Aug 1862 Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack
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06 Aug 1862 American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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06 Aug 1864 Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bayd
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06 Aug 1870 Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France
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06 Aug 1870 White conservatives suppresed black vote and captured Tenn legislature
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06 Aug 1870 Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
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06 Aug 1870 Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
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06 Aug 1890 Cy Young pitches andwins 1st game
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06 Aug 1890 Denton True "Cy" Young pitched his 1st major league baseball game
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06 Aug 1890 At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
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06 Aug 1896 France annexes Madagascar
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06 Aug 1901 Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
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06 Aug 1905 26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record)
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06 Aug 1910 New York City Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt
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06 Aug 1912 The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
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06 Aug 1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia and Serbia
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06 Aug 1914 French cavalry enter Belgium
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06 Aug 1914 German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed
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06 Aug 1914 Serbia declares war against Germany
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06 Aug 1914 World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
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06 Aug 1914 World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
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06 Aug 1915 World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
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06 Aug 1917 World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
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06 Aug 1918 Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France
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06 Aug 1918 In WWI 2nd battle of the Marne ends
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06 Aug 1919 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
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06 Aug 1919 Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest
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06 Aug 1921 Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins
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06 Aug 1926 Don Juan with John Barrymore shown
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06 Aug 1926 Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system (NY)
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06 Aug 1926 Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
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06 Aug 1926 In New York, New York, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
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06 Aug 1930 Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in New York City
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06 Aug 1930 Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
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06 Aug 1934 US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915
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06 Aug 1936 1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson and Rabbit Warstler of Boston Bees-lead off with HRs
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06 Aug 1937 Franco-artillery fire on Madrid
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06 Aug 1937 US and the USSR sign trade treaty
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06 Aug 1939 1st broadcast of "Dinah Shore Show" on NBC-radio
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06 Aug 1940 Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire
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06 Aug 1940 Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.
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06 Aug 1941 Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning
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06 Aug 1942 Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210
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06 Aug 1942 Churchill fires General Auchinlek as Middle-East Commandant
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06 Aug 1942 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
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06 Aug 1943 US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily
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06 Aug 1944 All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died
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06 Aug 1944 Anti-German attack at Avranches fails
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06 Aug 1944 Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
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06 Aug 1944 US 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes
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06 Aug 1944 The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
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06 Aug 1945 Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay"
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06 Aug 1945 World War II: Hiroshima, Japan 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.
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06 Aug 1946 US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
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06 Aug 1948 Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics
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06 Aug 1948 Dreesgovt (KVP / Social Democratics / CHU / Liberal) forms
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06 Aug 1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics
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06 Aug 1949 Luke Appling record of 2,154 (en route to 2,218) games at shortstop
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06 Aug 1951 Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
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06 Aug 1952 Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout
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06 Aug 1953 Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military
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06 Aug 1954 WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Aug 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.
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06 Aug 1958 Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles
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06 Aug 1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
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06 Aug 1960 Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto
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06 Aug 1960 Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
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06 Aug 1961 1st case of motion sickness in space reported
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06 Aug 1961 Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits)
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06 Aug 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
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06 Aug 1962 Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule
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06 Aug 1962 Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
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06 Aug 1964 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam
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06 Aug 1964 Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
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06 Aug 1965 32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000)
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06 Aug 1965 Beatles release "Help" album in the UK
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06 Aug 1965 Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
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06 Aug 1965 Indian troops invade Pakistan
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06 Aug 1965 LBJ signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks
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06 Aug 1965 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
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06 Aug 1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London
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06 Aug 1966 Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
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06 Aug 1966 Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe)
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06 Aug 1966 US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam
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06 Aug 1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
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06 Aug 1967 Minn Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings
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06 Aug 1967 Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play
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06 Aug 1967 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Pro comperto sane
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06 Aug 1969 Baltimore Orioles pull their 3rd triple play (5-4-3 vs. Kansas City Royals)
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06 Aug 1972 Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament
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06 Aug 1972 Hank Aaron hits 660th and 661st HRs for Braves (record for 1 team)
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06 Aug 1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Knoxville Ladies Golf Classic
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06 Aug 1973 Roberto Clemente and Warren Spahn inducted into Hall of Fame
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06 Aug 1973 Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma
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06 Aug 1974 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice
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06 Aug 1974 Explosion and fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Washington
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06 Aug 1976 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
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06 Aug 1978 60th PGA Championship: John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont Country Club - Pennsylvania
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06 Aug 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Europea Golf Open
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06 Aug 1979 61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills, Michigan
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06 Aug 1979 Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel
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06 Aug 1980 University administration declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles and post-season play due to transcript and curriculum abuses
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06 Aug 1981 Crowned Miss National Teen-Ager
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06 Aug 1981 NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed
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06 Aug 1982 California Doug DeCinces hits 3 HRs again in game (did it 5 days ago also)
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06 Aug 1982 WQXI (Atlanta) is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system
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06 Aug 1983 Minnesota Vikings beat St. Louis Cardinals 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo)
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06 Aug 1983 Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa
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06 Aug 1984 203.05 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
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06 Aug 1984 Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics
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06 Aug 1985 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB
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06 Aug 1985 Major League Baseball Players Association go on strike
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06 Aug 1985 STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad
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06 Aug 1986 Orioles (Dwyer & Sheets) and Rangers (Harrah) hit record 3 grand slams
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06 Aug 1986 Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM
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06 Aug 1986 Record 3 grand slams hit in game Tx vs. Baltimore (Harrah, Sheets & Dwyer)
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06 Aug 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, New South Wales, Australia.
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06 Aug 1988 Oakland Athletics Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 HRs and steal 30 bases
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06 Aug 1988 Rich Gossage 300th career save (beats Phillies)
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06 Aug 1988 The Tompkins Square Park Riot in New York City spurs a reform of the NYPD, held responsible for the event.
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06 Aug 1989 "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 5959 performances
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06 Aug 1989 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open
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06 Aug 1989 Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as President of Bolivia
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06 Aug 1989 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines
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06 Aug 1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats
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06 Aug 1990 President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses Premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan
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06 Aug 1990 UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq
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06 Aug 1990 Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
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06 Aug 1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
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06 Aug 1991 Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
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06 Aug 1993 Japan Hosokawa government begins
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06 Aug 1993 Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical
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06 Aug 1994 Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school / Universities
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06 Aug 1995 "Damn Yankees" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 510 performances
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06 Aug 1995 Indians and Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose - Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition)
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06 Aug 1995 Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb
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06 Aug 1996 NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars (ALH84001)
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06 Aug 1996 NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
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06 Aug 1997 Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc
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06 Aug 1997 NHL Nashville Tenn names Barry Trotz as its 1st coach
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06 Aug 1997 Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam. (228 died, 26 lived)
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06 Aug 2008 A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
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06 Aug 2011 A march in protest of the death of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, London, ends in a riot, sparking off a wave of rioting throughout the country over the following four nights.
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06 Aug 2012 NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
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