August 6 historical events
686 — Battle of Khazir
The Battle of Khazir (Arabic: يوم الخازر, romanized: Yawm Khāzir) took place in August 686 near the Khazir River in Mosul's eastern environs, in modern-day Iraq. The battle occurred during the Second Fitna between the Syria-based Umayyad Caliphate and the Kufa-based pro-Alid forces under Mukhtar al-Thaqafi. It ended with the Umayyad forces being routed and resulted in the expansion of Mukhtar's rule into the Mosul region.
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1181 — Battle of Sunomata-gawa
The Battle of Sunomata-gawa (墨俣川の戦い Sunomata-gawa no Tatakai) took place in Japan on 6 August 1181 (or by the Japanese calendar, Jishō-5 year, 4-month, 25-day), in the present-day town of Sunomata, Gifu Prefecture. The battle started when Minamoto no Yukiie attempted a sneak attack against his enemies during the night. He found Taira no Tomomori and his army directly opposite from his, along the Sunomata River, near the borders of Owari and Mino provinces. The Minamoto warriors waded across, but their ambush failed when the Taira clan could distinguish dry friend from soaking, dripping wet foe, even in the pitch dark of night.
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1284 — Battle of Meloria (1284)
The Battle of Meloria was fought near the islet of Meloria in the Ligurian Sea on 5 and 6 August 1284 between the fleets of the Republics of Genoa and Pisa as part of the Genoese-Pisan War. The victory of Genoa and the destruction of the Pisan fleet marked the decline of the Republic of Pisa.
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1332 — Battle of Kinghorn
The Battle of Kinghorn was fought on 6 August 1332 at Wester Kinghorn (now Burntisland), Fife, Scotland. An invading seaborne force of 1,500 men was commanded by Edward Balliol and Henry Beaumont, Earl of Buchan. A Scottish army, possibly 4,000 strong, commanded by Duncan, Earl of Fife, and Robert Bruce, Lord of Liddesdale (an illegitimate son of King Robert the Bruce) was defeated with heavy loss.
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1332 — Second War of Scottish Independence
The Second War of Scottish Independence broke out in 1332, when Edward Balliol led an English-backed invasion of Scotland. Balliol, the son of former Scottish king John Balliol, was attempting to make good his claim to the Scottish throne. He was opposed by Scots loyal to the occupant of the throne, eight-year-old David II. At the Battle of Dupplin Moor Balliol's force defeated a Scottish army ten times their size and Balliol was crowned king.
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1409 — Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War
The Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War, also known as the Great Teutonic War, occurred between 1409 and 1411 between the Teutonic Knights and the allied Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Inspired by the local Samogitian uprising, the war began with a Teutonic invasion of Poland in August 1409. As neither side was ready for a full-scale war, Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia brokered a nine-month truce.
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1538 — Bogotá’s traditional founding date
6 August 1538 is accepted as the traditional founding date of Bogotá, Colombia. The city government distinguishes this date from the legal confirmation of the settlement and formation of its first town council on 27 April 1539.
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1539 — Siege of Castelnuovo
The siege of Castelnuovo was an engagement during the Ottoman-Habsburg struggle for control of the Mediterranean, which took place in July 1539 at the walled town of Castelnuovo, present-day Herceg Novi, Montenegro. Castelnuovo had been conquered by elements of various Spanish tercios the year before during the failed campaign of the Holy League against the Ottoman Empire in Eastern Mediterranean waters.
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1566 — Siege of Szigetvár
The siege of Szigetvár or the Battle of Szigeth (pronunciation: [ˈsiɡɛtvaːr]; Hungarian: Szigetvár ostroma; Croatian: Bitka kod Sigeta, Sigetska bitka; Turkish: Zigetvar Kuşatması) was an Ottoman siege of the fortress of Szigetvár in the Kingdom of Hungary. The fort had blocked Sultan Suleiman's line of advance towards Vienna in 1566.
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1585 — Toyotomi Hideyoshi is officially appointed kampaku (Imperial Regent)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (豊臣 秀吉; Japanese pronunciation: [to.jo.to.mʲi (|) çi.de(ꜜ).jo.ɕi], 16 February 1537 – 18 September 1598), otherwise known as Kinoshita Tōkichirō (木下 藤吉郎) and Hashiba Hideyoshi (羽柴 秀吉), was a Japanese samurai and daimyō (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods, regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.
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1623 — Battle of Stadtlohn
The Battle of Stadtlohn was fought on 6 August 1623 between the armies of Christian of Brunswick and of the Catholic League during the Thirty Years' War. The League's forces were led by Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly.
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1657 — The Ruin (Ukrainian history)
The Ruin (Ukrainian: Руїна, romanized: Ruyina) is a historical term introduced by the Cossack chronicle writer Samiilo Velychko (1670–1728) for the political situation in Ukrainian history during the second half of the 17th century. The timeframe of the period varies among historians: Some historians such as Mykola Kostomarov define the period between 1663 and 1687, associating it with the three Moscow-appointed hetmans of Left-bank Ukraine (Briukhovetsky, Mnohohrishny and Samoylovych).
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1661 — Treaty of The Hague (1661)
The Treaty of The Hague (also known as the Treaty of Den Haag) was signed on 6 August 1661 between representatives of the Dutch Republic and Portugal. Based on the terms of the treaty, the Dutch Republic recognized Portuguese sovereignty over New Holland (Dutch Brazil) in exchange for an indemnity of 4 million reis, conversion from 2 million caroli guilders, over the span of 16 years.
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1684 — Siege of Santa Maura (1684)
The siege of Santa Maura took place on 21 July – 6 August 1684 between the forces of the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire, and was the opening battle of the Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War. From his base at Corfu the Venetian commander-in-chief, Francesco Morosini, led a fleet of 38 galleys, 8 galleasses and several auxiliary vessels to besiege the Fortress of Santa Maura on the island of Lefkada (also known as Santa Maura), that was under Ottoman rule.
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1734 — Siege of Gaeta (1734)
The Siege of Gaeta was a siege during the War of Polish Succession fought at Gaeta, Italy. The Habsburgs at Gaeta withstood four months of siege from the Bourbon armies under the Duke of Parma (the future Charles III of Spain). They were defeated on 6 August 1734 when the Spanish and French stormed the city. Twenty-seven years earlier, Austrian troops under Count Wirich Philipp von Daun had laid siege to Gaeta during the War of the Spanish Succession. The Jacobite pretender Charles Edward Stuart was present for a time as an observer, his first exposure to war.
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1777 — Battle of Oriskany
The Battle of Oriskany ( or ) was a major engagement of the Saratoga campaign during the American Revolutionary War. On August 6, 1777, an American column of Tryon County militia and Oneidas marching to relieve the siege of Fort Stanwix was ambushed by a contingent of Britain's Indigenous allies and Loyalists. It was one of the few battles of the war in which most non-Indigenous participants were settlers born in the Thirteen Colonies.
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1780 — Battle of Hanging Rock
The Battle of Hanging Rock (August 6, 1780) was a battle in the American Revolutionary War that occurred between the American Patriots and the British. It was part of a campaign by militia General Thomas Sumter to harass or destroy British outposts in the South Carolina backcountry that had been established after the fall of Charleston in May 1780.
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1787 — Constitution of the United States
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally including seven articles, the Constitution defined the foundational structure of the federal government. The drafting of the Constitution by many of the nation's Founding Fathers, often referred to as its framing, was completed at the Constitutional Convention, which assembled at Independence Hall in Philadelphia between May 25 and September 17, 1787.
Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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1796 — Battle of Peschiera
The Battle of Peschiera was a minor clash that occurred on 6 August, 1796 between the Austrian troops of General Anton Lipthay and the French division of General André Masséna.
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1804 — 1804 Kentucky gubernatorial election
The 1804 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1804, in order to elect the Governor of Kentucky. Democratic-Republican nominee and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 1st district Christopher Greenup was easily elected as he ran unopposed.
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1806 — Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares the moribund empire to be dissolved, although he retains power in the Austrian Empire
Francis II and I (German: Franz II; 12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor as Francis II from 1792 to 1806, and the first Emperor of Austria as Francis I from 1804 to 1835. He was also King of Germany, Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, and served as the first president of the German Confederation following its establishment in 1815.
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1806 — End of Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity comprising and controlling much of Central Europe and Western Europe, headed by the Holy Roman Emperor and characterized by a decentralized political structure. It developed in the Early Middle Ages (beginning in either 800 or 962), and lasted for a millennium until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.
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1814 — Battle of Rakkestad
The Battle of Rakkestad was fought in the Swedish–Norwegian War of 1814, at the village of Rakkestad, Norway, between 2,000–3,000 Swedes force under Eberhard von Vegesack, and a slightly smaller Norwegian force, led by Frederik Wilhelm Stabell. The Swedish forces drove the Norwegians back from their fortified positions with a disciplined bayonet-attack and dealt them considerable losses.
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1819 — Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States
Norwich University is a private university in Northfield, Vermont, United States. The university was founded in 1819 as the "American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy". It is the oldest of six senior military colleges and is recognized by the United States Department of Defense as the "Birthplace of ROTC".
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1821 — 1821 Alabama gubernatorial election
The 1821 Alabama gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1821, to elect the third governor of Alabama. Democratic-Republican candidate Israel Pickens defeated fellow Democratic-Republican candidate Henry H. Chambers with 57.43% of the vote.
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1821 — 1821 Mississippi gubernatorial election
The 1821 Mississippi gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1821, to elect the governor of Mississippi. Walter Leake, a Democratic-Republican won against Charles B. Green, another Democratic Republican.
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1824 — Battle of Junín
The Battle of Junín was a large cavalry engagement of the Peruvian War of Independence, fought in the highlands of the Junín Region on 6 August 1824. The preceding February the royalists had regained control of Lima, and having regrouped in Trujillo, Simón Bolívar in June led his rebel forces south to confront the Spanish under Field Marshal José de Canterac.
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1825 — Bolivian Declaration of Independence
Bolivia's independence was definitively proclaimed on 6 August 1825 at a congress held in Chuquisaca.
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1825 — Bolivian–Peruvian territorial dispute
The Bolivian–Peruvian territorial dispute was a territorial dispute between Bolivia and Peru that lasted from the former's independence in 1825 to the signing of the Polo–Bustamante Treaty in 1909.
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1827 — 1827 Alabama gubernatorial election
The 1827 Alabama gubernatorial election was an uncontested election held on August 6, 1827, to elect the governor of Alabama. Jacksonian candidate John Murphy ran unopposed and won 99.25% of the vote. Various write-in candidates made up the other 0.75%.
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1827 — 1827 Mississippi gubernatorial election
The 1827 Mississippi gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1827, to elect the governor of Mississippi. Gerard Brandon, a Democratic-Republican won against Daniel Williams and Beverely R. Grayson, two other Democratic Republicans.
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1831 — Battle of Houthalen
The Battle of Houthalen was a battle of the Ten Days' Campaign during the Belgian Revolution. The battle took place on 6 August 1831. The Dutch army defeated the Belgian rebels and continued further to the Belgian inlands.
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1831 — Naning War
The Naning War (6 August 1831 – 15 June 1832), also known as the Naning Conflict or Naning Revolt, was a conflict in the region surrounding Malacca, which was part of the Straits Settlements under British control. The conflict was fought between British East India Company (EIC), which had taken over Malacca and its neighbouring areas from the Dutch in 1824, against the Malay chiefdom of Naning, located adjacent to Malacca.
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1832 — 1832 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election
The 1832 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1832, in order to elect the lieutenant governor of Missouri. Democratic nominee and incumbent member of the Missouri Senate Lilburn Boggs defeated National Republican nominee James McClelland.
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1832 — 1832 Missouri gubernatorial election
The 1832 Missouri gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1832. Lt. Governor Daniel Dunklin, the Jacksonian candidate was elected over John Bull, the Anti-Jacksonian candidate.
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1832 — 1832 Kentucky gubernatorial election
The 1832 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1832. Incumbent National Republican Governor Thomas Metcalfe was term-limited, and could not seek a second consecutive term. Democratic nominee John Breathitt defeated National Republican nominee Richard A. Buckner with 50.77% of the vote. Breathitt died on February 21, 1834, and was succeeded by Lieutenant Governor Whig James T. Morehead.
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1835 — 1835 Tennessee gubernatorial election
The 1835 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1835, to elect the Governor of Tennessee. Whig nominee, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 5th district and candidate for Governor in 1827 Newton Cannon defeated Democratic nominee and incumbent Governor William Carroll and member of the Tennessee House of Representatives West Hughes Humphreys.
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1838 — 1838 Mormon War
The Mormon War is a name sometimes given to the 1838 conflict which occurred between Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and their neighbors in the northwestern region of the US state of Missouri. This conflict is also sometimes referred to as the Missouri Mormon War to differentiate it from the Utah Mormon War (also known as the "Utah War") and the lesser known Illinois Mormon War. The specific dates of the war are from August 6, 1838, (the Gallatin election battle) to November 1, 1838, when Joseph Smith surrendered at Far West.
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1838 — 1838 Illinois lieutenant gubernatorial election
The 1838 Illinois lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1838, in order to elect the lieutenant governor of Illinois. Democratic nominee and former member of the Illinois House of Representatives Stinson Anderson defeated Whig nominee and incumbent acting lieutenant governor William H. Davidson.
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1838 — 1838 Illinois gubernatorial election
The 1838 Illinois gubernatorial election was the sixth quadrennial election for this office. Democratic nominee Thomas Carlin was elected by a bare majority of the voters in a close election. He defeated Whig nominee Cyrus Edwards, the brother of former governor Ninian Edwards, for the office. Originally, the Democratic Party had nominated James W. Stephenson to be their candidate.
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1840 — 1840 North Carolina gubernatorial election
The 1840 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1840, in order to elect the Governor of North Carolina. Whig nominee and former member of the North Carolina House of Representatives John Motley Morehead defeated Democratic nominee and former Attorney General of North Carolina Romulus M. Saunders.
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1844 — Bombardment of Tangier
The Bombardment of Tangier took place on 6 August 1844, when French Navy forces under the command of François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville attacked the Moroccan city of Tangier. The campaign was part of the First Franco-Moroccan War. The bombardment was a consequence of Morocco's alliance with Algeria's Abd-El-Kader against France following several incidents at the border between Algeria and Morocco, and the refusal of Morocco to abandon its support for Algeria.
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1846 — 1846 North Carolina gubernatorial election
The 1846 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1846, in order to elect the governor of North Carolina. Incumbent Whig governor William Alexander Graham won re-election against Democratic nominee James B. Shepard.
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1849 — Texas gubernatorial election, 1849
The 1849 Texas gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1849 to elect the Governor of Texas. Incumbent Governor George Tyler Wood was running for reelection, but was defeated by Peter Hansborough Bell, winning 40% of the vote to Bell's 48%.
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1849 — 1849 Indiana gubernatorial election
The 1849 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1849. This was the last election held in August, and the last election for a three-year term, until a new state constitution came into effect in 1851. Incumbent Democratic Governor James Whitcomb was term-limited, and could not seek a third consecutive term. Democratic nominee Joseph A. Wright defeated Whig nominee John A. Matson and Free Soil nominee James H. Cravens with 52.27% of the vote.
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1849 — 1849 Alabama gubernatorial election
The 1849 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on August 6, 1849, in order to elect the governor of Alabama. Democrat Henry W. Collier won his first term with over 98.18% of the votes.
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1854 — Battle of Kurekdere
The Battle of Kürekdere took place on 6 August 1854 as part of the Crimean War. The battle occurred when an Ottoman army from the Ottoman fortress of Kars marched out to confront a marauding Russian detachment near the village of Kürekdere in the Trans-Caucasus.
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1855 — Texas gubernatorial election, 1855
The 1855 Texas gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1855 to elect the Governor of Texas. Incumbent Governor Elisha M. Pease was reelected to a second term, winning 57% of the vote.
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1855 — 1855 Kentucky gubernatorial election
The 1855 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1855. Know Nothing Charles S. Morehead defeated Democratic nominee Beverly L. Clarke with 51.63% of the vote.
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1855 — 1855 Alabama gubernatorial election
The 1855 Alabama gubernatorial election was held on August 6, in order to elect the governor of Alabama. incumbent governor John A. Winston won his second term as governor.
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1860 — Missouri gubernatorial election, 1860
The Missouri gubernatorial election of 1860 was the thirteenth such election in Missouri's history. It was held on August 6, 1860, and resulted in a victory for the Democratic nominee, Claiborne Fox Jackson. Jackson defeated the nominee of the Constitutional Union Party, Sample Orr, and Southern "Brekenridge" Democrat Former Gov. Hancock Lee Jackson to become the fifteenth governor of Missouri. Republican James B. Gardenhire also ran in the election, but received a negligible amount of votes. Before the next election in 1864, three men would serve as Governor of Missouri: first, Claiborne Fox Jackson until his defection to the Confederacy in July 1861, then Hamilton Rowan Gamble until his death in January 1864, and finally Lt. Gov Willard Preble Hall.
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1860 — 1860 Arkansas gubernatorial election
The 1860 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1860, in order to elect the Governor of Arkansas. Incumbent two-term governor Elias Conway, member of the powerful Conway-Johnson family (known as "The Family") which had controlled Arkansas politics since creation of Arkansaw Territory, decided to retire from politics. His chosen successor, Richard H. Johnson, won a Democratic nomination heavily influenced by The Family.
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1860 — 1860 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election
The 1860 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on August 6, 1860, in order to elect the lieutenant governor of Missouri. Democratic nominee Thomas Caute Reynolds defeated Constitutional Union nominee T. J. C. Fagg, Southern Democratic nominee Monroe Parsons and Republican nominee James Lindsay.
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1860 — 1860–61 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1860–61 United States House of Representatives elections took place between August 6, 1860, and October 24, 1861, to elect 180 representatives and seven non-voting delegates to the 37th United States Congress. The Republican Party lost seats but gained a majority in the chamber following the withdrawal of the representatives from the Confederate States of America.
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1861 — Lagos Treaty of Cession
The Treaty of Cession, 6 August 1861 or the Lagos Treaty of Cession was a treaty between the British Empire and Oba Dosunmu of Lagos (spelt 'Docemo' in English documents) wherein Dosunmu, under the threat of military bombardment, ceded Lagos Island to Britain, whilst retaining the title and powers of Oba, subject to English laws.
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1862 — Battle of Kirksville
The Battle of Kirksville was a battle in the American Civil War, fought in the town of Kirksville, Missouri, on August 6, 1862. The Union victory helped consolidate Federal control over northeastern Missouri.
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1870 — Battle of Wörth
The Battle of Wörth, also known as the Battle of Reichshoffen or as the Battle of Frœschwiller, refers to the second battle of Wörth, which took place on 6 August 1870 in the opening stages of the Franco-Prussian War. (The first Battle of Wœrth occurred on 23 December 1793 during the Napoleonic Wars.) In the second battle, troops from Germany commanded by Crown Prince Frederick and directed by his Chief of Staff, General Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, defeated the French under Marshal Mac-Mahon near the village of Wœrth in Alsace, on the Sauer River, 10 km north of Haguenau.
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1870 — Battle of Spicheren
The Battle of Spicheren (also known as the Battle of Forbach) was fought on 6 August 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. German forces won a victory compelled the French to withdraw to the defenses of Metz. The battle was the second of three critical French defeats.
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1888 — 1888 Alabama gubernatorial election
The 1888 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on August 6, 1888, in order to elect the governor of Alabama. Incumbent Democrat Thomas Seay ran for reelection to a second term.
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1890 — At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair
William Francis Kemmler (May 9, 1860 – August 6, 1890) was an American murderer who was the first person executed by electric chair. He was convicted of murdering Matilda "Tillie" Ziegler, his common-law wife, a year earlier. Although electrocution had previously been successfully used to kill a horse, Kemmler's execution did not go smoothly.
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1898 — Birth of Huang Minlon
On 6 August 1898, Huang Minlon, a scholar, was born.
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1898 — Typhoon rains trigger severe flooding in Taiwan
A typhoon brought heavy rain and severe flooding to Taiwan. In the center of the island, the natural dam at Caoling Lake gave way, sending floodwater into the old channel of the Zhuoshui River.
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1900 — 1900 Alabama gubernatorial election
The 1900 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on August 6, 1900, in order to elect the governor of Alabama. Incumbent Democrat Joseph F. Johnston decided not to run for a third term in office. For the last time, the Governor of Alabama was elected to a two-year term. Afterwards, Alabama governors would be elected for terms of four years.
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1900 — Battle of Yangcun
The Battle of Yangcun was a battle during the march of Eight-Nation Alliance forces from Tianjin to Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion. The Alliance forces defeated the Qing and were able to continue their march towards Peking.
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1904 — 1904 Reading by-election
The 1904 Reading by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 6 August 1904. The constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
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1904 — 1904 New South Wales state election
The 1904 New South Wales state election was held on 6 August 1904 for all of the 90 seats in the 20th New South Wales Legislative Assembly and it was conducted in single-member constituencies with a first past the post voting system. For the first time, women were entitled to vote. Both adult males and females were entitled to vote, but not Indigenous people.
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1907 — 1906–07 United States Senate elections
The 1906–07 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, senators were chosen by state legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1906 and 1907, and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative deadlock.
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1914 — Kamerun campaign
The Kamerun campaign took place in the German colony of Kamerun in the African theatre of the First World War when the British, French and Belgians invaded the German colony from August 1914 to March 1916. Most of the campaign took place in Kamerun but skirmishes also broke out in British Nigeria.
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1915 — August 1915 Portuguese presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Portugal on 6 August 1915. Following Portugal's 1911 constitution, the Congress of the Republic must elect the president in Lisbon instead of the Portuguese people. There were a total of seven candidates. One of the Democratic Party candidates, Bernardino Machado won against his opponents and he was elected as the new President of Portugal.
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1915 — 1915 Manitoba general election
The 1915 Manitoba general election was held August 6, 1915 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. Liberals under Norris took a slight majority of votes and won a landslide majority in the Legislature. They replaced the Conservative government that had ruled the province since 1899 but had lost power after investigation for corruption.
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1915 — Attack of the Dead Men
The Attack of the Dead Men, or the Battle of Osowiec Fortress, was a battle of World War I that took place at Osowiec Fortress (in present-day northeastern Poland), at 4:00 AM on August 6, 1915. The incident received its grim name from the bloodied, corpse-like appearance of the Russian combatants after German artillery had bombarded them with a mixture of poison gases, chlorine and bromine.
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1915 — Battle of Sari Bair
The Battle of Sari Bair (Turkish: Sarı Bayır Harekâtı), also known as the August Offensive (Ağustos Taarruzları), represented the final attempt made by the British in August 1915 to seize control of the Gallipoli peninsula from the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. At the time of the battle, the Gallipoli Campaign had raged on two fronts – Anzac and Helles – for three months since the Allied land invasion of 25 April 1915.
World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
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1916 — Battle of Doberdò
The Battle of Doberdò took place near Doberdò del Lago (Slovene: Doberdob) in August 1916 between armies of Kingdom of Italy and Austria-Hungary. The Austro-Hungarian army was primarily made up of regiments filled with Hungarians and Slovenians. The battle was a part of the sixth battle of the Isonzo, and occurred in a strategic area of westernmost edge of the Karst Plateau.
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1917 — The Battle of Mărășești begins
On August 6, 1917, the Battle of Mărășești began on the Romanian front of World War I. Romanian and Russian forces resisted a Central Powers offensive. The battle continued into September.
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1923 — Portuguese presidential election, 1923
Presidential elections were held in Portugal on 6 August 1923. The Congress of the Republic elected the president in Lisbon instead of the Portuguese people. However the new president Manuel Teixeira Gomes was elected In absentia, meaning that he wasn't present during the election. There were a total of 5 candidates, 2 from the Democratic Party (Portugal) and 3 from the Republican Party (Portugal). Of these candidates, only the 2 Democratic Party (Portugal) members were left in which Manuel Teixeira Gomes won in a landslide victory against old president and party colleage Bernardino Machado.
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1926 — Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel
Gertrude Ederle swam across the English Channel from France to Kingsdown Beach in England. She completed the crossing in less than fifteen hours, setting a new record.
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1931 — 1931 Prince Edward Island general election
The 1931 Prince Edward Island general election was held on 6 August 1931 in the Canadian Province of Prince Edward Island. The governing Liberals of Premier Walter Lea were defeated by the Conservatives led by James D. Stewart.
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1932 — The first Venice Film Festival opens
On 6 August 1932, the first Venice Film Festival opened on the terrace of the Hotel Excelsior on the Lido in Venice, Italy. The opening screening was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The festival continued until 21 August.
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1944 — Battle for Caen
The Battle for Caen (June to August 1944) was a military engagement between the British Second Army and the German Panzergruppe West in the Second World War for control of the city of Caen and its vicinity during the Battle of Normandy. Caen is about 9 mi (14 km) inland from the Calvados coast astride the Orne River and Caen Canal, at the junction of several roads and railways.
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1945 — Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, during the final days of World War II. The aerial bombings killed 150,000 to 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the first and only uses of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.
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1956 — DuMont airs its final network broadcast
The DuMont Television Network aired a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in its final official network broadcast. The boxing show continued on local television after DuMont stopped airing it.
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1957 — 1957 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship final
The 1957 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final was the 26th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1957 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, an inter-county camogie tournament for the top teams in Ireland. Antrim led 2–1 to 0–2 at half-time but Dublin gradually wore them down, Bríd Reid scoring a last-minute winning goal after Eilish Campbell, Antrim's star player, had gone off injured.
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1962 — Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom
On August 6, 1962, Jamaica became independent from the United Kingdom and its new constitution took effect. Alexander Bustamante became the country’s first prime minister.
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1965 — Battle of Dongshan
The Battle of Dongshan (Chinese: 東山海戰), also known as the Battle of August Sixth (Chinese: 八六海戰), was a naval battle fought between the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China on 6 August 1965.
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1965 — U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disfranchisement of African Americans
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark U.S. federal statute that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965. Congress later amended the act five times to expand its protections.
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1966 — 1966 Dhabyani coup d'état
On August 6, 1966, Zayed Al Nahyan, the younger brother of ruling Sheikh of Abu Dhabi Shakhbut Al Nahyan, staged a bloodless palace coup with direct military assistance from the United Kingdom, then Abu Dhabi's colonial overlord via the Trucial States.
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1966 — Death of Zhao Chenggu
On 6 August 1966, Zhao Chenggu, a scholar, died.
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1967 — Battle of Suoi Chau Pha
The Battle of Suối Châu Pha (6 August 1967) was fought during the Vietnam War between Australian troops and the Việt Cộng. The battle took place during Operation Ballarat, an Australian search and destroy operation in the eastern Hát Dịch area, north-west of Núi Đất in Phước Tuy province.
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1969 — Kou Kiet
Kou Kiet (translation: Redeem Honor; also called Operation About Face) was a major Laotian Civil War victory for the anti-communist troops of the Kingdom of Laos. Patterned after prior Operation Raindance, it depended upon extensive air strikes blasting communist units and clearing them from the path of the Royalist offensive.
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1970 — Operation Gordian Knot
Operation Gordian Knot (Operação Nó Górdio) was the largest and most expensive Portuguese military campaign in the Portuguese overseas province of Mozambique, East Africa. The operation was carried out in 1970, during the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1974). The objectives of the campaign were to close down the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO)'s infiltration routes across the Tanzanian border and to destroy permanent FRELIMO bases inside the liberated zones in Northern Mozambique.
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1971 — 24th Locarno Film Festival
The 24th Locarno Film Festival was held from 6 to 15 August 1971 in Locarno, Switzerland. Following the resignation of Sandro Bianconi and Freddy Buache the year before the directors of the festival became a committee of seven. The festival returned to is traditional summer schedule and open-air screenings. The festival featured the first screenings on the Piazza Grande, which would become a staple of the festival.
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1977 — Indian presidential election, 1977
The Election Commission of India held indirect 7th presidential elections of India on August 6, 1977. Even though 37 candidates filed their nominations, 36 of them were rejected, leading to Neelam Sanjiva Reddy being the only President of India winning unopposed.
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1982 — 35th Locarno Film Festival
The 35th Locarno Film Festival was held from 6 to 15 August 1982 in Locarno, Switzerland. This was David Strieff's first year as director following the departure of Jean-Pierre Brossard. A retrospective of Powell and Pressburger films was screened, which coincided with the burgeoning recognition of their work as "auteurs" in film circles.
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1983 — Nigerian presidential election, 1983
Presidential elections were held in Nigeria on 6 August 1983. The result was a victory for incumbent Shehu Shagari, who won 47.5% of the vote. His National Party of Nigeria had won the parliamentary elections held later in August.
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1987 — 40th Locarno Film Festival
The 40th Locarno Film Festival was held from 6 to 16 August 1987 in Locarno, Switzerland. It featured films and television movies from around the globe. To celebrate the 40th Anniversary, a retrospective of 40 years of films at the Locarno Film Festival was organized. Jean-Luc Godard, opened the festival with a lecture on cinema as a guest of honor.
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1991 — 1991 DFB-Supercup final
The 1991 DFB-Supercup Final decided the winner of the 1991 edition of the DFB-Supercup, a football competition contested by the winners of the previous season's West German league and cup winners, along with the East German league and cup champions. The match was played at the Niedersachsenstadion in Hanover, and contested by both West German teams, league champions 1. FC Kaiserslautern and cup winners Werder Bremen.
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1991 — Tim Berners-Lee announces the World Wide Web software on a public newsgroup
Tim Berners-Lee posted about the World Wide Web software in the alt.hypertext newsgroup. The announcement introduced the project to people outside the physics community.
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1993 — Takako Doi becomes the first woman to preside over Japan’s lower house
Japan’s House of Representatives elected Takako Doi as its speaker. She was the first woman to hold the office.
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1994 — 1994 J.League Cup final
1994 J.League Cup final was the 3rd final of the J.League Cup competition. The final was played at Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium in Hyogo on August 6, 1994. Verdy Kawasaki won the championship.
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1995 — The United States opens its embassy in Hanoi
Secretary of State Warren Christopher inaugurated the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi after the United States and Vietnam signed documents to reestablish diplomatic relations.
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1996 — NASA reports possible signs of ancient life in a Martian meteorite
On August 6, 1996, NASA said researchers had found features in the Martian meteorite ALH 84001 that could indicate ancient microbial life. The findings did not establish that life had existed on Mars.
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1997 — Korean Air Flight 801
Korean Air Flight 801 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Korean Air, from Gimpo International Airport, Seoul to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, Guam. On August 6, 1997, the Boeing 747-300 operating the flight crashed on Bijia Peak, south of Nimitz Hill, in Asan-Maina, Guam, while on approach to the destination airport, killing 229 of the 254 people aboard, making it the deadliest aviation accident to occur in American dependent territory, and the fourth-deadliest aviation accident on American soil overall.
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1997 — 1997 Belgian Super Cup
The 1997 Belgian Super Cup was a football match which was played on 6 August 1997, between the winner of the 1996–97 Belgian First Division, Lierse, and the winner of the 1996–97 Belgian Cup, Germinal Ekeren. Lierse won the match 1-0, their first Super Cup victory.
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1997 — 50th Locarno Film Festival
The 50th Locarno Film Festival was held from 6 to 16 August 1997 in Locarno, Switzerland. The opening film of the festival was the international premiere of Men In Black. The closing film of the festival was Last Tango in Paris in honor of its director Bernardo Bertolucci who was awarded the Leopard of Honor for his career in cinema at the festival this year.
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2001 — Erwadi fire incident
The Erwadi fire incident was an incident that occurred on 6 August 2001, when 28 inmates of a faith-based mental asylum died in the fire. All these inmates were bound by chains at the Moideen Badusha Mental Home in Erwadi village in Tamil Nadu, India. A large number of mental homes existed in Erwadi which was famous for the dargah of Quthbus Sultan Syed Ibrahim Shaheed Valiyullah, a Moroccan who came to India to propagate Islam.
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2002 — 2002 Flint mayoral special election
The 2002 Flint mayoral special election took place on August 6, 2002. On March 5, 2002, voters recalled Mayor Woodrow Stanley, and city administrator Darnell Earley became temporary mayor. A special election was originally scheduled for May 7, 2002, but the state legislature cancelled the election to allow Governor John Engler to appoint a financial review team to evaluate the city's finances.
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2003 — 56th Locarno Film Festival
The 56th Locarno Film Festival was held from 6 to 16 August 2003 in Locarno, Switzerland. There were 27 world premieres and films from 17 countries were screened. The festival opened with a screening on the Piazza Grande of the restored print of Vincente Minnelli's The Band Wagon (1953). The Piazza Grande is the 7,000 seat open-air theater assembled in the town square each year.
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2005 — 2005 in UFC
The year 2005 was the 13th year in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. In 2005 the UFC held 10 events beginning with, UFC 51: Super Saturday. The reality TV series The Ultimate Fighter and the first UFC Ultimate Fight Night both premiered on Spike TV.
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2006 — 2006 Nagano gubernatorial election
A gubernatorial election was held on 6 August 2006 to elect the next governor of Nagano (長野県, Nagano-ken), a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu island.
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2006 — 2006 Christy Ring Cup final
The 2006 Christy Ring Cup final was a hurling match played at Croke Park on 6 August 2006 to determine the winners of the 2006 Christy Ring Cup, the 2nd season of the Christy Ring Cup, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the second tier hurling teams. The final was contested by Antrim of Ulster and Carlow of Leinster, with Antrim winning by 5–13 to 1–7.
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2008 — 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état
A coup d'état took place in Mauritania on 6 August 2008 when Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by a group of high-ranking generals he had dismissed from office earlier that day.
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2008 — 2008 North American SuperLiga final
The 2008 North American SuperLiga final was a soccer match played on August 6, 2008, at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts in the United States. The match determined the winner of the 2008 North American SuperLiga, the second edition of the North American SuperLiga, which was a tournament contested by teams from Major League Soccer and Liga MX.
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2008 — 61st Locarno Film Festival
The 61st Locarno Film Festival was held from 6 to 16 August 2008 in Locarno, Switzerland. The opening film of the festival was the European premiere of Brideshead Revisited directed by Julian Jarrold. The closing film of the festival was the European premiere of Back Soon directed by Solveig Anspach. This was a successful year at the festival for distribution deals with five of 18 films in-competition getting international distribution deals at the festival.
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2010 — 2010 Libyan Super Cup
The 2010 Libyan Super Cup was the 14th edition of the Libyan Super Cup, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous year's Libyan Premier League and Libyan Cup competitions. The match took place on August 6, 2010 at the 11 June Stadium in the capital, Tripoli, contested by league champions Ittihad Tripoli, seeking an eighth successive title, and cup winners Nasr.
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2010 — 2010 Ladakh floods
The 2010 Ladakh floods occurred on 6 August 2010 across a large part of Ladakh, then part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. 71 towns and villages were damaged, including the main town in the area, Leh.
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2011 — UFC 133
UFC 133: Evans vs. Ortiz was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on August 6, 2011 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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2011 — 2011 Chinook shootdown in Afghanistan
On 6 August 2011, a U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopter was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Rangers in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. The resulting crash killed all 38 people on board—25 American special operations personnel, five United States Army National Guard and Army Reserve crewmen, seven Afghan commandos, and one Afghan interpreter—as well as a U.S. military working dog.
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2011 — 2011 Supercoppa Italiana
The 2011 TIM Supercoppa Italiana was the 24th edition of the Supercoppa, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Serie A and Coppa Italia competitions. The match, the curtain raiser to the new football season in Italy, was the 208th Derby della Madonnina between AC Milan and defending champions Inter Milan, marking the first time these two sides have met in this competition. The match was played at the National Stadium in Beijing on Saturday 6 August 2011.
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2012 — Canada v United States (2012 Summer Olympics)
The 2012 Olympic women's soccer semifinal between Canada and the United States was played at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, on 6 August 2012. In a match that went into extra time, the U.S. won 4–3 to advance to the final against Japan. In the 22nd minute, Christine Sinclair opened the scoring for Canada, who remained up 1–0 into halftime.
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2012 — NASA’s Curiosity rover lands in Gale Crater on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover landed in Gale Crater. A rocket-powered descent stage lowered it the last part of the way to the surface, where it began a mission to study the crater’s geology.
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2014 — 2014 Suruga Bank Championship
The 2014 Suruga Bank Championship (Japanese: スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2014; Spanish: Copa Suruga Bank 2014) was the seventh edition of the Suruga Bank Championship, the club football match co-organized by the Japan Football Association, the football governing body of Japan, CONMEBOL, the football governing body of South America, and J. League, the professional football league of Japan, between the winners of the previous season's J. League Cup and Copa Sudamericana. The match was contested between Japanese team Kashiwa Reysol, the 2013 J. League Cup champion, and Argentine team Lanús, the 2013 Copa Sudamericana champion. It was hosted by Kashiwa Reysol at the Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium in Kashiwa on August 6, 2014.
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2014 — 2014 MLS All-Star Game
The 2014 AT&T Major League Soccer All-Star Game was the 19th annual Major League Soccer All-Star Game. It took place on August 6, 2014 at Providence Park, the home of MLS club Portland Timbers. The game was televised live on ESPN2 and UniMás in the United States, TSN and RDS in Canada, and in more than 130 other countries worldwide.
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2014 — 67th Locarno Film Festival
The 67th Locarno Film Festival was held from 6 to 16 August 2014 in Locarno, Switzerland. There were 17 films in the main competition. The opening film, held on Piazza Grande the 8,000 seat open-air theater, was Lucy directed by Luc Besson. There was a retrospective for film studio Titanus, which has featured directors such as Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda.
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2015 — 2015 Abha mosque bombing
The 2015 Abha mosque bombing occurred on 6 August 2015, when a suicide bomb attack killed 17 people at a mosque in the south-western Saudi Arabian city of Abha. Responsibility for the attack, in a city near Saudi Arabia's southern border with Yemen, a country presently torn apart by the Yemeni Civil War, was claimed by a self-described affiliate of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria calling itself Wilāyat al-Ḥijāz.
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2015 — 2015 Nashville mayoral election
The 2015 Nashville mayoral election took place on August 6, 2015, to elect the next mayor of Nashville, Tennessee. Incumbent Democratic Mayor Karl Dean was term limited and could not run for re-election to a third term in office. Since there was no candidate that received a majority of votes in the initial round of the election, a runoff election was held.
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2016 — UFC Fight Night: Rodríguez vs. Caceres
UFC Fight Night: Rodríguez vs. Caceres (also known as UFC Fight Night 92) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on August 6, 2016 at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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2016 — Aleppo offensive (July–August 2016)
The Aleppo offensive (July–August 2016) refers to a military operation launched on the southern outskirts of Aleppo at the end of July 2016 by rebel forces in Syria. The aim of the offensive was to establish a new supply line into Aleppo city, after a previous Army offensive had cut off all rebel access to Aleppo.
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2016 — 2016 Trophée des Champions
The 2016 Trophée des Champions (English: 2016 Champions Trophy) was the 21st edition of the French super cup. The match was contested by the 2015–16 Ligue 1 and Coupe de France champions Paris Saint-Germain, and the runners-up of Ligue 1, Lyon. The match was played at the Wörthersee Stadion in Klagenfurt, Austria. PSG were the three-time defending champions, having defeated Lyon in the 2015 edition, which was played in Canada.
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2017 — Attack on Fort Paramacay
The attack on Fort Paramacay (code name Operation David), was a military assault carried out in the morning of Sunday, August 6, 2017, between 3:50 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. in the Venezuelan town of Naguanagua, Carabobo.
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2017 — UEFA Women's Euro 2017 final
The final of UEFA Women's Euro 2017 took place on 6 August 2017 at De Grolsch Veste in Enschede, Netherlands, and was contested by the winners of the semi-finals, the Netherlands and Denmark. The Netherlands won the final 4–2 for their first UEFA Women's Championship title.
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2017 — 2017 FA Community Shield
The 2017 FA Community Shield (also known as The FA Community Shield supported by McDonald's for sponsorship reasons) was the 95th FA Community Shield, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's Premier League and FA Cup competitions. It was held at Wembley Stadium on 6 August 2017. The match was played between Chelsea, champions of the 2016–17 Premier League and Arsenal, who beat their opponents to win the 2017 FA Cup final.
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2017 — 2017 Arab Club Championship final
The 2017 Arab Club Championship final was the final match of the 2017 Arab Club Championship, the 27th season of the Arab League's main club football tournament organised by UAFA, and the 1st season since it was renamed from the UAFA Club Cup to the Arab Club Championship. The match was played by Espérance Sportive de Tunis of Tunisia and Al-Faisaly SC of Jordan, and held at the Alexandria Stadium in Alexandria, Egypt.
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2017 — 2017 Turkish Super Cup
The 2017 Turkish Super Cup (Turkish: TFF Süper Kupa) was the 44th edition of the Turkish Super Cup since its establishment as Presidential Cup in 1966, the annual Turkish football season-opening match contested by the winners of the previous season's top league and cup competitions (or cup runner-up in case the league- and cup-winning club is the same).
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2017 — 2017 Amazonas gubernatorial special election
The 2017 Amazonas gubernatorial special election was summoned by the Superior Electoral Court after the sentence that removed the Governor and Vice Governor of Amazonas from office, under the accusation of vote pairing. After that, the President of the Legislative Assembly of Amazonas assumed as Acting Governor until a new election could decide who would be the new head of Rio Negro Palace.
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2018 — OLA insurgency
The OLA insurgency is an armed insurgency between the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), which split from the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) in 2018, and the Ethiopian government, continuing in the context of the long-term Oromo conflict, typically dated to have started with the formation of the Oromo Liberation Front in 1973. The insurgency has gained strength in recent years, though it is not sufficiently armed or organized enough to pose a serious threat to the government.
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2019 — 2019 Flint mayoral election
The 2019 Flint mayoral election was held on November 5, 2019, following a primary election on August 6, 2019. Incumbent Mayor Karen Weaver, who was first elected in 2015 and retained in a recall election in 2017, ran for re-election to a second term. She was challenged by State Representative Sheldon Neeley, contractor Don Pfeiffer, and former city administrator Gregory Eason.
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2021 — Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament final
The 2020 Summer Olympic women's football final was a football match that took place at International Stadium Yokohama in Yokohama, Japan, on 6 August 2021 to determine the winner of women's football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Canada won their first gold medal by defeating Sweden 3–2 in the penalty shoot-out after both teams drew 1–1 after extra time in the final.
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2021 — 2021 Five Star Movement leadership election
The 2021 Five Star Movement leadership election was an Italian online primary election held on 6 August 2021 that determined the president of the M5S. The election was de facto a plebiscite in which party's members were asked to approve or reject the candidacy of former prime minister Giuseppe Conte as new leader. Conte easily won the election with 92.8% of votes.
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2021 — Capture of Zaranj
The capture of Zaranj, the capital of Nimruz Province, Afghanistan, by the Taliban occurred on 6 August 2021. According to local officials, only the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and its forces had put up a fight against the Taliban, but they too eventually surrendered to the Taliban. Local officials had been requesting reinforcements but received no response.
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2021 — 20th New York Asian Film Festival
The 20th New York Asian Film Festival was held in New York from 6 August to 22 August 2021. The opening film of the festival was Escape from Mogadishu, a South Korean film by Ryoo Seung-wan. Seventy titles were screened both online, as well as in person.
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2021 — Liu Shiying wins China’s first Olympic javelin gold
Liu Shiying won the women’s javelin at the Tokyo Olympics with a throw of 66.34 metres. It was China’s first Olympic gold in the javelin.
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2022 — 2022 Indian vice presidential election
The election for the 14th vice president of India was held on 6 August 2022. The announcement was made by the Election Commission of India. Article 67 of the Constitution of India provides that the vice president of India shall remain in office for a period of five years. The winner of this election was Jagdeep Dhankhar, who succeeded Venkaiah Naidu as vice president on 11 August 2022.
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2022 — UFC on ESPN: Santos vs. Hill
UFC on ESPN: Santos vs. Hill (also known as UFC on ESPN 40 and UFC Vegas 59) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on August 6, 2022, at the UFC Apex facility in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.
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2022 — 2022 Thailand Champions Cup
The 2022 Thailand Champions Cup was the 6th Thailand Champions Cup, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's Thai League 1 and Thai FA Cup. As Buriram United won both competitions in 2021–22, their opponents were the 2021–22 Thai League 1 runners-up, BG Pathum United. It was sponsored by Daikin, and known as the Daikin Thailand Champions Cup (Thai: ไดกิ้น ไทยแลนด์แชมเปียนส์คัพ) for sponsorship purposes. The match was played on 6 August 2022 at the His Majesty the King's 80th Birthday Anniversary Stadium in Mueang, Nakhon Ratchasima.
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2023 — 2023 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship final
The 2023 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final, the 92nd event of its kind and the culmination of the 2023 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, was played at Croke Park on 6 August 2023. The finals of the 2023 All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie Championship and All-Ireland Junior Camogie Championship took place earlier that day at Croke Park. It was won by Cork, who defeated Waterford.
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2023 — 2023 FA Community Shield
The 2023 FA Community Shield was the 101st FA Community Shield, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's Premier League and FA Cup competitions. It took place at Wembley Stadium on 6 August 2023. As Manchester City won both the 2022–23 Premier League and the 2022–23 FA Cup, their opponents were the Premier League runners-up, Arsenal.
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2024 — 2024 Grand Rapids mayoral election
The 2024 Grand Rapids mayoral election took place on November 5, 2024, following a primary election on August 6, 2024. Incumbent Mayor Rosalynn Bliss was ineligible to run for re-election to a third term. Former State Representative David LaGrand ran to succeed her, and placed first in the primary by a wide margin, winning 60 percent of the vote to former City Commissioner Senita Lenear's 20 percent.
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2024 — 2024 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection
Incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 2024, considered several prominent individuals as potential running mates. On August 6, 2024, she chose Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota as her candidate for vice president. After formally accepting their nomination during the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Harris and Walz went on to lose the general election to the Republican ticket of former President Donald Trump and U.S. Senator JD Vance.
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2024 — Kursk campaign
On 6 August 2024, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched an incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast and clashed with the Russian Armed Forces and Russian border guard. A state of emergency was declared in Kursk Oblast, and Russian reserves were rushed to the area. By the end of the first week, the Ukrainian military said it had captured 1,000 km2 (390 sq mi) of Russian territory, while Russian authorities acknowledged that Ukraine had captured 28 settlements.
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2024 — Death of Tseng Kuei-hai
On 6 August 2024, Tseng Kuei-hai, a doctor, died.
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2025 — 78th Locarno Film Festival
The 78th Locarno Film Festival took place from 6 to 16 August 2025, in Locarno, Switzerland. Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh served as the jury president for the main competition. Japanese drama film Two Seasons, Two Strangers by Sho Miyake was the winner of the Golden Leopard, the festival's main prize. Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter's White Snail was the winner of the Special Jury Prize.
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2026 — 2026 Tennessee county mayoral elections
2026 Tennessee county mayoral elections were held on August 6, 2026, to determine the mayor (or county executive) of 94 of the 95 counties in the state, including several of the most populous; Shelby, Knox, Hamilton, Rutherford, Montgomery, and Williamson County. Local county primary elections were held on May 5, 2026. The general elections for county mayor were held concurrently with primary elections for various state offices, including the gubernatorial and senatorial primaries.
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