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[[image:Bolivia flag large.png|100x100px|Flag of Bolivia]]
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[[Image:Jamaica coat medium.gif|100x100px|Jamaican coat of arms]]
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[[Image:Bin-ladin-pdb-corner.jpg|100x100px|Title: "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US"]]
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[[Image:Berners-Lee.jpg|100x100px|Tim Berners-Lee]]
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-10212, Gertrud Ederle.jpg|Gertrud Ederle
[[Image:Francis II.jpg|100x100px|Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (filename refers to WCommons)
File:Zayed bin Al Nahayan (cropped).jpg|Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
[[Image:Little boy.jpg|100x100px|Little Boy, the first atomic bomb used in warfare]]
File:B-29 Enola Gay w Crews.jpg|Crew of the ''Enola Gay''
[[Image:A-bomb dome closeup.jpg|100x100px|The Genbaku Dome, a standing memorial of the bombing of Hiroshima]]
File:Tibbets-wave.jpg|Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, waving from its cockpit
[[Image:Atomic cloud over Hiroshima.jpg|100x100px|The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima after the dropping of Little Boy.]]
[[Image:Hiroshima aftermath.jpg|100x100px|Effects of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima]]
File:Atombombe Little Boy 2.jpg|Little Boy, the first atomic bomb used in warfare
File:A-bomb dome closeup.jpg|The Genbaku Dome, a standing memorial of the bombing of Hiroshima
* [[1915]] - [[World War I]]: The [[Allies]] launched the '''[[Battle of Sari Bair]]''' at [[Gallipoli]].
File:Hiroshima aftermath.jpg|Effects of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima
* [[2001]] - [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[George W. Bush]] received a '''[[President's Daily Briefing|daily briefing]]''' warning of an imminent attack by [[Osama bin Laden]].
File:Atomic cloud over Hiroshima - NARA 542192 - Edit.jpg|[[Mushroom cloud]] over Hiroshima after the Little Boy explosion
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File:Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.jpg|Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
'''[[August 6]]''': [[Independence Day]] in '''[[Bolivia]]''' ([[1825]]) and '''[[Jamaica]]''' ([[1962]])
File:Sir Tim Berners-Lee (cropped).jpg|Tim Berners-Lee
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File:Franz I von Österreich.jpg|Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
[[Image:Atombombe Little Boy 2.jpg|100x100px|Little Boy, the first atomic bomb used in warfare]]
File:LyndonJohnson signs Voting Rights Act of 1965.jpg|Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act into law
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* [[1806]] - The '''[[Holy Roman Empire]]''' was dissolved when [[Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor|Francis II]], the last [[Holy Roman Emperor]], was forced to [[Abdication|abdicate]].
* [[1890]] - [[William Kemmler]] became the first person to be [[Execution (legal)|executed]] in an '''[[electric chair]]'''.
* [[1945]] - [[World War II]]: ''[[Enola Gay]]'', a [[B-29 Superfortress]] of the [[United States Army Air Forces|U.S. Army Air Force]], '''[[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|dropped an atomic bomb]]''' named ''[[Little Boy]]'' ''(pictured)'' on [[Hiroshima, Hiroshima|Hiroshima]], [[Japan]], killing an estimated 80,000 people.
* [[1966]] - [[Shaikh]] '''[[Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan]]''' became [[emir]] and ruler of [[Abu Dhabi]].
* [[1991]] - '''[[Tim Berners-Lee]]''' released files describing his idea for a "[[World Wide Web]]."


==Ineligible==
Recent days: [[August 5]] &ndash; [[August 4]] &ndash; [[August 3]]
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| '''[[Feast of the Transfiguration]]''' ([[Gregorian calendar]]);
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| [[List of national independence days|Independence Day]] in '''[[Bolivia]]''' ([[1825]]) and '''[[Jamaica]]''' ([[1962]])
| Bolivia: refimprove section; Jamaica: lots of CN tags (24)
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| [[1538]] – Spanish [[conquistador]] [[Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada]] founded a European urban settlement in what is today '''[[Bogotá]]''', Colombia.
| refimprove sections
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| [[1806]] – The [[Holy Roman Empire]]<!--not bolded, needs more footnotes--> was dissolved by its last emperor, '''[[Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor|{{nowrap|Francis II}}]]''', during the aftermath of the [[War of the Third Coalition]].
| unreferenced section
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| [[1870]] – [[Franco-Prussian War]]: At the '''[[Battle of Wörth]]''', [[North German Confederation|German]] troops under [[Frederick III, German Emperor|Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm]] defeated the French under Marshal [[Patrice de MacMahon]] near the village of [[Wœrth]].
| single source
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| [[1890]] – At [[Auburn Correctional Facility|Auburn Prison]] in the U.S. state of New York, [[William Kemmler]] became the first person to be executed by '''[[electric chair]]'''.
|Referencing issues
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| [[1914]] – [[World War I|First World War]]: Germany's '''[[Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I|Atlantic U-boat campaign]]''' began when ten [[U-boat]]s sailed from their base in [[Heligoland]] to attack [[Royal Navy]] warships in the [[North Sea]], the first ever [[submarine]] war patrol in history.
| refimprove section
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| [[1915]] – [[World War I|First World War]]: The [[Allies of World War II|Allied Powers]] launched the '''[[Battle of Sari Bair]]''' at [[Gallipoli]].
| needs more footnotes
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| [[1926]] – American competitive swimmer '''[[Gertrude Ederle]]''' became the [[List of successful English Channel swimmers|first woman]] to swim across the [[English Channel]].
| refimprove section
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| [[1956]] – '''[[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]]''', one of the world's first [[television network]]s, aired its last program.
| Referencing issues
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| [[1964]] – American researcher [[Donald Rusk Currey|Donald Currey]] had a [[Pinus longaeva|bristlecone pine]] tree known as '''[[Prometheus (tree)|Prometheus]]''' cut down, only to find that it was the [[List of longest-living organisms|oldest]] known [[clonal colony|non-clonal]] organism ever discovered, at least 4,862 years old at the time.
| refimprove section
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| [[1966]] – Sheikh '''[[Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan]]''' became [[emir]] and ruler of [[Abu Dhabi]], succeeding his brother, Sheikh [[Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan]], who was deposed in a bloodless ''coup d'état''.
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| [[1988]] – [[New York City Police Department|New York City Police]] officers charged a crowd protesting a curfew for the previously 24-hour [[Tompkins Square Park]], '''[[Tompkins Square Park riot (1988)|sparking a riot]]''' that led to more than 100 complaints of police brutality.
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| '''[[Bulstrode Whitelocke]]'''<!--English lawyer--> |b|1605
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|* [[1861]] – Under the threat of military bombardment, [[Dosunmu]], [[Oba of Lagos]], '''[[Lagos Treaty of Cession|ceded the island of Lagos]]''' to British forces.
|Date not cited
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* [[1777]] – The '''[[Battle of Oriskany]]''', one of the bloodiest battles of the [[American Revolutionary War]], was fought about {{cvt|6|mi|km|0}} east of [[Fort Stanwix]], [[New York (state)|New York]].
* [[1945]] – [[World War II|World War&nbsp;II]]: The [[United States Army Air Forces|U.S. Army Air Force]] bomber '''''[[Enola Gay]]''''' ''(pictured with crew)'' dropped the '''[[Little Boy]]''' [[Nuclear weapon|atomic bomb]] on [[Hiroshima]], Japan<!-- ''(mushroom cloud pictured)''-->, [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|killing about 70,000 people instantly]]<!--not bold, this article applies to both the August 6 and August 9 (Nagasaki) events-->.
* [[1965]] – U.S. president [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] signed the '''[[Voting Rights Act of 1965|Voting Rights Act]]''' into law<!--''(pictured)''-->, outlawing [[literacy test]]s and other discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread [[disfranchisement]] of [[African Americans]].
* [[1991]] – British [[Programmer|computer programmer]] '''[[Tim Berners-Lee]]''' posted a public invitation to collaborate on a system of interlinked, [[hypertext]] documents accessible via the [[Internet]], known as the [[World Wide Web]].
* [[1997]] – On approach to [[Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport]] in [[Guam]], '''[[Korean Air Flight 801]]''' crashed into a hill, killing 228 of the 254 people aboard.
* [[2008]] – Mauritanian President [[Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi|Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi]] '''[[2008 Mauritanian coup d'état|was ousted from power]]''' by a group of high-ranking generals that he had dismissed from office several hours earlier.
* [[2010]] – '''[[2010 Ladakh floods|Flash floods]]''', [[Mudflow|mudslides]], and [[debris flow]]s across the [[Ladakh]] region of Indian-administered [[Kashmir]] <!--caused by a [[cloudburst]] and heavy overnight rains -->left at least 255 people dead.
* [[2011]] – [[2011 England riots|A series of riots]]<!-- Not bolded, tagged for {updated} --> broke out in several [[London boroughs]] and in cities and towns across England in response to the '''[[shooting of Mark Duggan]]''' by [[Metropolitan Police]] officers.

* Born this day: | '''[[Saint Dominic]]'''<!--Spanish priest--> |d|1221| '''[[Stephen V of Hungary|{{nowrap|Stephen V}} of Hungary]]'''<!--King--> |d|1272| '''[[Diego Velázquez]]'''<!--Spanish painter--> |d|1660| '''[[Daniel O'Connell]]'''<!--Irish politician--> |b|1755| '''[[James Henry Greathead]]'''<!--English engineer--> |b|1844| '''[[George Kenney]]'''<!--American general--> |b|1889| '''[[Lucille Ball]]'''<!--American actress--> |b|1911| '''[[Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier]]'''<!--American physician--> |d|1915|'''[[Bix Beiderbecke]]'''<!--American musician--> |d|1931| '''[[John Richard Clark Hall]]'''<!--British scholar--> |d|1931| '''[[William McCrea, Baron McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown|William McCrea]]'''<!--Northern Ireland politician--> |b|1948|'''[[Vera Farmiga]]'''<!--American actress--> |b|1973 '''[[Shapour Bakhtiar]]'''<!--Iranian prime minister--> |d|1991| '''[[Edsger W. Dijkstra]]'''<!--Dutch computer scientist--> |d|2002
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* [[686]] – [[Second Fitna]]: Pro-[[Alids|Alid]] forces defeated the [[Umayyad Caliphate]] in the '''[[Battle of Khazir]]''', allowing them to take control of [[Mosul]] in present-day Iraq.
* [[1892]] – The '''[[Abir Congo Company|Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company]]''' was founded in Antwerp to exploit [[natural rubber]] in the [[Congo Free State]].
* [[1930]] – [[New York Supreme Court]] judge '''[[Joseph Force Crater]]''' disappeared in [[Manhattan]], in a case that was never solved.
* [[1996]] – Researchers announced that the [[meteorite]] '''[[Allan Hills 84001|ALH84001]]''' ''(pictured)'', discovered in the [[Allan Hills]] of Antarctica, may contain evidence of [[life on Mars]], but further tests were inconclusive.
* [[2013]] – A gas leak '''[[2013 Rosario gas explosion|caused an explosion]]''' that collapsed a building and led to the deaths of 22 people in [[Rosario, Santa Fe|Rosario]], Argentina.
{{Born and died list| '''[[Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg|Josias&nbsp;I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg]]'''|d|1588|'''[[Maria Simon (sociologist)|Maria Simon]]'''|b|1918| '''[[Aniru Conteh]]'''|b|1942|'''[[Michelle Yeoh]]'''<!--Malaysian actress--> |b|1962}}
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  • Gertrud Ederle
    Gertrud Ederle
  • Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
    Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
  • Crew of the Enola Gay
    Crew of the Enola Gay
  • Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, waving from its cockpit
    Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, waving from its cockpit
  • Little Boy, the first atomic bomb used in warfare
    Little Boy, the first atomic bomb used in warfare
  • The Genbaku Dome, a standing memorial of the bombing of Hiroshima
    The Genbaku Dome, a standing memorial of the bombing of Hiroshima
  • Effects of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima
    Effects of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima
  • Mushroom cloud over Hiroshima after the Little Boy explosion
    Mushroom cloud over Hiroshima after the Little Boy explosion
  • Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
    Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
  • Tim Berners-Lee
    Tim Berners-Lee
  • Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
    Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act into law
    Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act into law

Ineligible

Blurb Reason
Feast of the Transfiguration (Gregorian calendar); refimprove
Independence Day in Bolivia (1825) and Jamaica (1962) Bolivia: refimprove section; Jamaica: lots of CN tags (24)
1538 – Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada founded a European urban settlement in what is today Bogotá, Colombia. refimprove sections
1806 – The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved by its last emperor, Francis II, during the aftermath of the War of the Third Coalition. unreferenced section
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: At the Battle of Wörth, German troops under Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm defeated the French under Marshal Patrice de MacMahon near the village of Wœrth. single source
1890 – At Auburn Prison in the U.S. state of New York, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed by electric chair. Referencing issues
1914 – First World War: Germany's Atlantic U-boat campaign began when ten U-boats sailed from their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea, the first ever submarine war patrol in history. refimprove section
1915 – First World War: The Allied Powers launched the Battle of Sari Bair at Gallipoli. needs more footnotes
1926 – American competitive swimmer Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. refimprove section
1956 – DuMont, one of the world's first television networks, aired its last program. Referencing issues
1964 – American researcher Donald Currey had a bristlecone pine tree known as Prometheus cut down, only to find that it was the oldest known non-clonal organism ever discovered, at least 4,862 years old at the time. refimprove section
1966 – Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan became emir and ruler of Abu Dhabi, succeeding his brother, Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who was deposed in a bloodless coup d'état. refimprove section
1988 – New York City Police officers charged a crowd protesting a curfew for the previously 24-hour Tompkins Square Park, sparking a riot that led to more than 100 complaints of police brutality. refimprove section
Bulstrode Whitelocke |b|1605 lead too short
* 1861 – Under the threat of military bombardment, Dosunmu, Oba of Lagos, ceded the island of Lagos to British forces. Date not cited

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