Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 6

1483: England's King Richard III crowned
1491: Opening ceremony of Daitokuji's Shinju at subtemple
1495: Battle at Fornovo] French king Charles VIII beats St League
1560: England/Scotland signs Treaty of Edinburgh
1573: Pacificatie of Boulogne: new peace treaty with huguenots
1590: English admiral Francis Drake takess Portuguese Forts at Taag
1609: Majesteitsbrief: Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of re
1621: Dutch gov-gen John Pieterszoon Coen takes Banda-islands, 15,000
1630: Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf land at Peenemnde
1634: Johan van Walbeecks ships bypass St-Anna Bay, Cura‡ao
1641: Battle at La Marf‚e Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French govt army
1652: Fire on Dutch Dam (Amsterdam's city hall burns)
1669: LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River
1673: French troops conquer Maastricht
1685: Battle at Sedgemoor: King James II beats duke of Monmouth
1687: Newton publishes Principia
1699: Pirate Capt William Kidd is captured in Boston
1762: Earl of Sandwich invents the sandwich at 5 a.m
1770: Battle at Cesme: Russian fleet beats Turkish
1774: First Shakers arrive in New York from Liverpool, England.
1775: Arms, listing grievances but denying intent to be independent
1775: Congress issues Declaration of the Causes & Necessity of Takin
1776: Dec of Ind announced on front page of PA Evening Gazette
1777: British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
1782: British-French sea battle at Negapatam (South-Indies)
1785: Congress resolves US currency named dollar & adopts decimal c
1787: French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax
1787: Orange troops occupy Area at Duurstede
1798: removed as alien enemies
1798: US law makes aliens liable to be apprehended, restrained, ...
1801: Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British
1806: Following the abdication of Emperor Francis II, The Holy Roman
1840: Christian Hebbel's Judith, premieres in Berlin
1848: Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalg
1853: National Black convention meets (Rochester NY)
1853: William Wells Brown publishes Clotel, 1st novel by black Amer
1854: 1st Republican state convention (Ripon Wisc)
1858: Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
1862: Skirmish at Devall's Bluff Arkansas (106 casualties)
1863: Battle of Williamsport, MD [-Jul 07]
1863: Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Austral
1864: Battle of Chattahoochee River, GA [->JUL 10] US730 CS600
1869: Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr J H Harris, defeated
1882: 14 Russian Jews of Bilu, arrive in Jaffa Palestine
1885: Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine
1886: Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public
1889: Savoy Hotel opens in London
1890: First execution by electric chair at Auburn Prison, N.Y.- mistr
1892: Dr Jos‚ Rizal forms League Filipina
1892: Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pa fire on scabs, killing
1893: British King George V marries princess Victoria of Teck (Queen
1894: Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman str
1896: Madagascar declared a French Colony
1903: George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of SF
1908: Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for north pole
1912: 5th Olympic games in Stockholm opens
1912: Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)
1917: T E Lawrence captures Port of Agaba from Turkey
1919: British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr
1919: William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs pre
1922: Dutch auto/airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptc
1923: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form
1924: 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-Engl
1926: Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim English Channel; be
1928: 1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY)
1928: Worlds largest hailstone 1« lbs (17') falls in Potter Nebraska
1932: 1st class postage back up to 3› from 2›
1932: Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room
1932: spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli
1935: Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens
1936: 114øF (46øC), Moorhead, Minnesota (state record)
1936: 121øF (49øC), Steele, North Dakota (state record)
1939: German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises
1941: Austria declares war on Russia, Serbia on Germany
1941: NY Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield
1942: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam
1942: Von Hoth' IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj
1943: 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed
1943: US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched
1944: 170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford Conn
1944: French General De Gaulle arrives in Washington, DC
1944: US General Patton lands in France
1945: Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept UN Charter
1945: Pres Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom
1945: U.S. bombs Hiroshima with first nuclear weapon code-named Littl
1946: St Louis Woman closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 pe
1949: Cin Red Walker Cooper gets 10 RBIs
1949: Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158øF for 2 m
1950: German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland
1952: Last tram ride in London
1953: J Churms discovers asteroid #1701 Okavango
1954: Elvis Presley records his 1st hit, That's All Right
1954: KMOS TV channel 6 in Sedalia-Warrensburg, MO (PBS) begins broad
1954: Tunisian govt of M'zali, resigns
1956: Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honor to outstanding
1956: Indians' Jim Busby hits a grand slam in two consecutive at bats
1957: Beatle John Lennon 1st meets Paul McCartney
1957: Harry S Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri
1958: Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected pres of Mexico
1958: Alaska becomes 49th state
1959: Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic
1959: WENH TV channel 11 in Durham, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960: Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC
1961: Portuguese ship explode near Mozambique, kills 300
1962: Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria
1962: Mantle hits his 3rd & 4th consecutive homer
1963: South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1964: Beatles' film Hard Day's Night premieres in London
1964: Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from UK
1965: Rock group Jefferson Airplane forms
1966: Malawi becomes a republic, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes pre
1967: Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade
1968: Sacharov publishes Manifest of 10,000 words
1969: Filming begins on Ned Kelly starring Mick Jagger
1969: Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Cura‡ao
1970: California passes 1st no fault divorce law
1971: Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Mala
1971: White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
1975: Argentine government falls
1975: Comoros declare independence from France (most of them)
1975: Dmitri Shostakovitch completes Sonate for alto opus 147
1976: Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station
1978: Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut
1979: IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp
1980: France performs nuclear test
1980: Steve Carlton (14-4) pitches most strikeouts by a lefty (2,836)
1983: Fred Lynn of Angels hits All Star game 1st grand slam (AL wins
1983: Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
1986: Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a game
1986: Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in Philippines
1986: Premier Nakasones Liberal Democr Party wins Japan's election
1987: 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
1987: USSR performs nuclear test
1988: Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico
1988: North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die
1988: Wrestler Jake Roberts convicted of battery
1989: Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star
1989: US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn
1990: After pitching a no-hitter lose, NY Yankee Andy Hawkins pitches
1990: complete 12 inn game & loses 2-0
1990: Jetson's the Movie with Tiffany, premieres
1991: H Debehogne discovers asteroid #5918
1992: Cards, Braves & Marlins in East
1992: Fay Vincent realigns NL, putting Cubs, Cards & Rockies in West
1993: John F Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan
1994: Irina Privalova runs 100m European Record (10.77)
1994: Lerou Burrell runs world record 100m (9.85)
1994: Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL game (vs Ottawa)
1996: Yankee John Weteland sets record of 20th cons saves en route to
1997: Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical, closes at Royale NYC after 109 p
1997: Jamie Farr Kroger Classic
1997: Montreal Expos retire Andre Dawson's uniform #10
2002: 9 pilgrims on way to Amarnath were killed by Lashkar-e-Taiba mi
2002: India beats Vietnam Under-23 side and reaches Semifinals of LG

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