All Events

Historical Events on August 6

  • Battle of Oriskany

    1777

    American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.

  • Constitutional Convention (United States)

    1787

    Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  • Ironclad warship

    1862

    American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

  • Serbia

    1914

    World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.

  • Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    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.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    1965

    US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

  • Gulf War

    1990

    Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

  • 2011 Chinook shootdown in Afghanistan

    2011

    War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, 7 Afghan soldiers, and 1 Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.

  • Curiosity (rover)

    2012

    NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

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Famous Deaths on August 6

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