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Today in History ~ August 6
Independence Day, celebrated in Bolivia
Events1181 - Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
1588 - Spanish Armada under Medina Sidonia anchors
1661 - Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders
1675 - Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign haircuts
1774 - Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY
1787 - The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began to debate the articles contained in a draft of the United States Constitution. [H]
1806 - Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy Roman nor an empire as Emperor Francis I abdicated.
1815 - US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers Tunis & Tripoli
1824 - Battle at Jun - Simon Bolivar's army beats Spanish
1825 - Upper Peru declared its independence from Spain (and Peru) and changed its name to the Republic of Bolivar, in honor of military leader and statesman Simon Bolivar. A few days later, the country was officially renamed "Bolivia," the name it bears today.
1827 - Oregon Country to Remain Divided Representatives of the United States and Great Britain decided to continue their joint occupation of Oregon territory to which they first agreed in a border agreement of 1818.
1862 - Confederate ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged and scuttled, in Union attack [H]
1864 - Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bay
1870 - Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France
1870 - White conservatives suppress black vote & capture Tenn.legislature
1890 - First execution by electrocution in history was carried out at Auburn Prison in New York against William Kemmler, convicted of murdering his lover Matilda Ziegler with an axe [H]
1914 - German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed
1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia and Serbia declared war against Germany.
1918 - 2nd battle of the Marne ends
1926 - Gertrude Ederle of New York became the first American woman to swim the English Channel, in about 14 1/2 hours.
1930 - Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in NYC
1934 - US troops leave Haiti which had been occupied since 1915
1937 - Franco's artillery opens fire on Madrid
1937 - Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest
1940 - Italy invaded British Somaliland, starting the Battle of North Africa in World War II.
1942 - Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder"
1944 - All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died
1944 - Deportation of 70 000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
1945 - During World War II, the 'Enola Gay' of the United States dropped the atomic bomb, named Little Boy, on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare. [H]
1946 - US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
1951 - Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
1961 - Gherman S Titov second Russian in space aboard Vostok 2
1962 - Jamaica becomes an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth after 300 years of British rule
1965 - Beatles release "Help" album
1965 - Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
1965 - Indian troops invade Pakistan
1965 - LBJ signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks
1966 - Demonstrations against war in Vietnam become widespreadthroughout US
1974 - Explosion & fire destroy Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee Wash
1981 - Argentina ex-president Isabel Peron freed (deposed by militaryin 1976)
1985 - Nineteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 returns to Earth
1989 - "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 5959 performances
1990 - The U.N. Security Council voted to impose worldwide economic and military embargo on Iraq as punishment for its invasion of Kuwait.
1991 - The Justice Department joined forces with the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue in fighting a federal judge's order to keep two abortion clinics in Wichita, Kansas, open.
1992 - President Bush granted full diplomatic recognition to the former Yugoslav republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia and Croatia, the same day Britain's Independent Television News showed videotape of emaciated detainees at a pair of Serb prison camps.
1992 - Americans led by Carl Lewis swept the long jump at the Barcelona Summer Olympics, while Kevin Young won the 400 hurdles and Mike Marsh the 200 meters.
1994 - Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school/Universities
1995 - Some 100,000 people attended a memorial service in Hiroshima, Japan, to mark the 50th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing that helped end World War II.
1995 - Police in Columbia captured Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, the reputed co-leader of the Cali drug cartel.
1996 - Officials announced the Air Force had punished 16 officers in connection with the crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others the previous April.
1996 - NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin announced the discovery of evidence of a primitive life form on Mars. The evidence came from a fossil found on a meteorite in Antarctica believed to have come from Mars billions of years ago.
1997 - Korean Air Flight 801 crashed into a hillside a short distance from Guam International Airport, killing 228 of the 254 aboard the Boeing 747.
1997 - Ending years of impassioned rivalry, Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc. giving Microsoft a stake in Apple's survival.
2000 - Workers at Verizon, the nation's largest local telephone company, went on an 18-day strike over working conditions and union representation.
2002 - Doctors in Los Angeles, in a two-hour operation, separated two one-year-old Guatemala twin girls joined at the heads.
Birthdays Today
1504 - Matthew "Nosey" Parker archbishop of Canterbury
1651 - Francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time)
1664 - Johann Christoph Schmidt composer
1665 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer
1697 - Charles VII, Holy Roman emperor (1742-45)
1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson (English poet laureate: The Charge of the Light Brigade In Memoriam)
1811 - Judah Philip Benjamin, Secy War/Secy State (Confederacy)
1861 - Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt
1881 - Alexander Fleming, England, bacteriologist (penicillin; Nobel 1954) [T]
1881 - Leo Carrillo (actor: The Cisco Kid, Pancho Villa Returns, One Night in the Tropics, Phantom of the Opera [1943])
1881 - Louella Parsons (Oettinger) (gossip columnist: competed in print and on radio with nemesis Hedda Hopper)
1881 - Sir Alexander Fleming (Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist [1954]: discovered penicillin)
1883 - Scott Nearing, American sociologist pacifist author
1892 - Hoot (Edmund) Gibson (actor: Death Valley Rangers, Frontier Justice, The Marshal's Daughter, The Prairie King, Sonora Stagecoach, Wild Horse, Roaring Ranch Fighting Parson)
1902 - Arthur Flegenheimer, who will go on to become one of New York's most feared criminals under the name "Dutch Schultz," is born in the Bronx.
1906 - Ken Strong, NFL AFL halfback (Staten Island NY Yanks NY Giants)
1908 - Helen Hull Jacobs (tennis champion: Wimbledon [1936], U.S. Open [1932, 33, 34, 35])
1911 - Lucille Ball (Emmy Award-winning comedienne actress: I Love Lucy [1952 1953] The Lucy Show [1966-67 1967-68] 12th Annual Atlas Governor's Award [1988-89]; The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour, Yours Mine and Ours, Mame)
1916 - Michael Burke (baseball: head of New York Yankees; CBS broadcasting executive)
1917 - Robert Mitchum (actor: The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Cape Fear, A Family for Joe, African Skies, Night of the Hunter, The Story of G.I. Joe; commercials: "Beef. It's what's for dinner.")
1921 - Buddy (William) Collette (musician: reeds piano composer: LPs: Now and Then Blockbuster)
1921 - Ella Raines, actress
1922 - Doug Ford (golf champion: Masters [1957], PGA [1955])
1927 - William David Ford, (D-Mich-Rep)
1928 - Andy Warhol (Warhola) (filmmaker, pop artist: Campbell Soup; "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.")
1930 - Abbey Lincoln (Wooldridge) (actress: For Love of Ivy, Mo' Better Blues)
1938 - Bert Yancey (golfer)
1938 - Peter Bonerz (actor: The Bob Newhart Show, 9 to 5; director: Murphy Brown)
1941 - Ray Culp (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies pitcher)
1942 - Ray Buktenica (actor: Rhoda, House Calls, Life Goes On)
1944 - Ed Sneed (golfer)
1945 - Andy Messersmith (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies & others: pitcher)
1945 - Ken Norton, heavyweight boxer (or 0809)
1947 - Ken Riley (football: Cincinnati Bengals cornerback: Super Bowl XVI)
1947 - Sally Eaton, in Ill
1951 - Catherine Hicks (actress: Marilyn, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Bad News Bears, Ryan's Hope, Tucker's Witch, Star Trek 4)
1952 - Rep Carl C Perkins, D-Ky
1958 - Randy DeBarge (musician: bass vocals: group: DeBarge: Rhythm of the Night, I Like It. All this Love, Time Will Reveal)
1965 - David Robinson (Olympic Gold Medalist: 1992 basketball Dream Team; San Antonio Spurs center: NBA Rookie of the Year [1990])
1976 - Soleil Moon Frye (actress: Punky Brewster, The Liar's Club, The St. Tammany Miracle)
1990 - Jon Benet Ramsey, little beauty queen (murdered in 1996)
Famous deaths
0258 - Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded
1221 - St. Dominic, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans)
1623 - Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies
1637 - Ben Johnson, dramatist/playwright, dies at 65
1660 - Diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish (court)painter, dies at 61
1820 - M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca, dies at 43
1874 - Jim Reed, the first husband of the famous bandit queen Belle Starr.
1890 - William Kemmler convicted of murdering his lover Matilda Ziegler with an axe, first execution by electrocution in history. [H]
1959 - Preston Sturges, [Edmund Biden], US director/screenwriter, dies at 60
1973 - Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, dictator Cuba (1940-58), dies at 72
1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist, dies at 73
1978 - Paul VI, [Giovanni Montini], Italian Pope (1963-78), dies at 80 after a heart attack. He had led the Roman Catholic Church for 15 years
1986 - William J. Schroeder died after living 620 days with the "Jarvik -7" artificial heart. He was at the time, the person to live the longest with a completely artificial heart.
1991 - Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes), dies at 68
2001 - General Duong Van "Big" Minh, who was the president of South Vietnam for just a few days before the country fell to Communist invaders in 1975, died in Pasadena, Calif., at age 86.
2001 - Brazilian author Jorge Amado died at age 88.
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