Yesterday's History, Today's Stories, Today's Events in History 14th Century 16th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century 21st Century Births and Deaths Holidays and Customs

Yesterday's History, Today's Story, Historical Today(25)

August 6 is the 218th day of the solar year, with 147 days remaining until the end of the year.

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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" >14th century</h1>

1399: Zhu Di, the King of Yan, raised an army in Beiping and launched the "Battle of Jingnan" under the name of "Qing Junfang".

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1538: Gonzalo Gimenez de Quesada, the Spanish conquista, officially proclaims the establishment of Bogotá in present-day Colombia.

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1726: The Holy Roman Empire and Russia conclude an anti-Turkish military alliance.

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1806: Franz II formally abdicated the Holy Roman Empire after the end of the Third Coalition, retaining only the Austrian throne, ending the Holy Roman Empire.

1890: The first electric chair execution of murderer William Kemler is executed in the U.S. state of New York.

1898: A major flood occurred in Taiwan.

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1914: In World War I, Austria-Hungary declares war on the Russian Empire and Serbia declares war on Germany.

1915: German forces occupy Warsaw in World War I.

1932: The first international film festival, the Venice International Film Festival, is founded.

1942: Janusz Kozak and two hundred children are deported from Warsaw to the Treblinka concentration camp and poisoned.

1945: The U.S. Army Air Force's Anora Gai bomber drops an atomic bomb on a young boy over Hiroshima, Japan, causing a violent explosion that kills at least 80,000 people.

1962: Jamaica, the Island of the West Indies in Latin America, formally declares its independence and joins the Commonwealth after the British acquired land from Spanish colonizers in 1665 and continued to rule for 300 years.

1991: British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee publishes a summary of the World Wide Web, a hypertext system he designed to be accessible via the Internet, on a newsgroup.

1993: Japan's New Party leader Hosokawa Yoshihito is elected prime minister, the first non-Liberal Democratic and non-communist coalition regime in 38 years since 1955, ending the Liberal Democratic Party's long reign since 1955.

1995: U.S.-Vietnam relations are normalized and the U.S. representative office in Vietnam is upgraded to an embassy.

1996: NASA announces the discovery of the allen Hills meteorite 84001 in Antarctica, which may contain evidence of life on Mars.

1997: Korean Air Flight 801 crashed

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2008: Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan hard.

2012: NASA's Curiosity rover lands on Mars.

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1697: Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)

1881: Alexander Fleming, British bacteriologist, invention of penicillin, 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (d. 1955)

1890: Jiang Weishui (1931)

1898: Huang Minglong, organic chemist (died 1979)

1911: Lucille Bauer, American actor (died 1989)

1927: Arturo Armando Molina, 36th President of El Salvador (d. 2021)

1928: Andy Warhol, American artist and founder of Pop Art (died 1987)

1947: Mohammed Najibura, President of Afghanistan (1996)

1952: Lee Siu-yin, Hong Kong actor

1958: Gao Zhisen, Hong Kong male director, screenwriter, producer and host

1959: Ko Wen-che, Taiwanese physician, professor at the Faculty of Medicine, National Taiwan University, and mayor of Taipei.

1962: Yang Ziqiong, Malaysian actress

1965: Qian Jiale, Hong Kong actor and action director

1980: Pan Weibai, Taiwanese male singer and host

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1935: Fang Zhimin, Member of the Communist Party of China (born 1899)

1966: Zhao Chenggao, Chinese medicinal chemist (b. 1885)

1978: Pope Paul VI (born 1897)

2017: Li Shengjiao, diplomat and international jurist (born 1935)

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International Film Festival.

Bolivia: Independence Day

Jamaica: Independence Day