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Events

• 1914 (112 years ago) World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
• 1917 (109 years ago) World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
• 1940 (86 years ago) Estonia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
• 1945 (81 years ago) 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.
• 1960 (66 years ago) Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
• 1990 (36 years ago) Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet.
• 2008 (18 years ago) A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

Births

• 1809 (217 years ago) Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (died 1892)
• 1868 (158 years ago) Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (died 1955)
• 1881 (145 years ago) Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
• 1911 (115 years ago) Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and businesswoman (died 1989)
• 1917 (109 years ago) Robert Mitchum, American actor (died 1997)
• 1928 (98 years ago) Andy Warhol, American painter, photographer and film director (died 1987)
• 1962 (64 years ago) Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer
• 1983 (43 years ago) Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer

Deaths

• 258 (1768 years ago) Pope Sixtus II,
• 1458 (568 years ago) Pope Callixtus III,
• 1637 (389 years ago) Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright (born 1572)
• 1660 (366 years ago) Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter and educator (born 1599)
• 1969 (57 years ago) Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (born 1903)
• 1973 (53 years ago) Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (born 1901)
• 1978 (48 years ago) Pope Paul VI,
• 2002 (24 years ago) Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch physicist, computer scientist, and academic (born 1930)

All 325 events, births and deaths of August 6