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
- 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.
- 1926 –Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
- 1942 –Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
- 1953 –Venerable Pius XII establishes the Dioceses of Norwich and Bridgeport and makes the Diocese of Hartford an archdiocese.
- 1964 –Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world’s oldest tree, is cut down.
- 1966 –Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.
- 1991 –Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
- 1997 –Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
- 2011 –A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38.
Who were born on August 6?
- 1504 –Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1575)
- 1656 –Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d. 1733)
- 1881 –Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972)
- 1886 –Edward Ballantine, American composer (d. 1971)
- 1906 –Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
- 1928 –Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
- 1929 –Mike Elliott (saxophonist), Jamaican born ska, pop, jazz musician
- 1945 –Andy Messersmith, American baseball player
- 1950 –Dorian Harewood, American actor
- 1986 –Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player
Who died on August 6?
- 1657 –Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian-born Polish-Lithuanian noble
- 1753 –Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
- 1815 –James A. Bayard (elder), American Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)
- 1884 –Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812)
- 1890 –William Kemmler, American axe murderer (b. 1860)
- 1998 –André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
- 2001 –Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
- 2001 –Wilhelm Mohnke, one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard (b. 1911)
- 2002 –Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
- 2009 –Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (b. 1909)
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