August 6
People born on this day are Leo.
- 1986
A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
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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.
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Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
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NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
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Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam, killing 229 of the 254 people on board.
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Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
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A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
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Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
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War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
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NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
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A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.
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2004Takhmina Ikromova, Uzbekistani rhythmic gymnast
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2002Nessa Barrett, American singer-songwriter
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1999Hunter Greene, American baseball player
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1999Rebeka Masarova, Spanish-Swiss tennis player
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1995Rebecca Peterson, Swedish tennis player
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1991Wilmer Flores, Venezuelan baseball player
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1987Leanne Crichton, Scottish footballer
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1986Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player
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1985Mickaël Delage, French cyclist
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1985Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer
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1985Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer
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1984Vedad Ibišević, Bosnian footballer
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