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 219th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 147 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 24, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,715,040 minutes 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 ‘dihectadecaenneagon’ day.
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 176 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 4,246 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 6 Historical Events
- 1787 –Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
- 1819 –Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
- 1845 –The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
- 1914 –World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
- 1917 –World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
- 1926 –Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
- 1926 –Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
- 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.
- 1964 –Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world’s oldest tree, is cut down.
- 1990 –Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
Who were born on August 6?
- 1877 –Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (d. 1952)
- 1926 –Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
- 1944 –Inday Badiday, Filipina journalist and television personality (d. 2003)
- 1949 –Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman
- 1957 –Bob Horner, American baseball player
- 1973 –Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist
- 1980 –Danny Collins, Welsh footballer
- 1980 –Wilber Pan, American-born Taiwanese singer and actor
- 1982 –Romola Garai, British actress and model
- 1983 –C. J. Mosley, American football player
Who died on August 6?
- 1195 –Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)
- 1637 –Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)
- 1660 –Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
- 1757 –Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian painter (b. 1673)
- 1945 –Wu, Prince of Korea (b. 1912)
- 1964 –Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893)
- 1986 –Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (b. 1904)
- 2005 –Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
- 2008 –Angelos Kitsos, Greek lawyer and script writer (b. 1934)
- 2011 –Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist (b. 1911)
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