What day is August 6? Notable historical events that took place on August 6
August 6 in the Gregorian calendar marks the 219th day of the year (or 220th in leap years). Several notable historical events occurred on August 6.
Domestic events taking place on August 6
August 6, 1954:The death date of writer Nguyen Khoa Van, pen name Hai Trieu, was on January 1, 1908 in An Cuu, a suburb of Hue. He was an early member of the Indochinese Communist Party. During the resistance war against the French, he was the Director of the Propaganda Department of Inter-Zone IV, a member of the Executive Committee of the Literary and Artistic Association of Inter-Zone IV. His main works are: "Idealism or Materialism" (a treatise, published in 1935), "Writers and Society" (1937), "On Literature and Art" (collection - 1965).
August 6, 1972:Hai Phong's army and people shot down the 3,800th American plane in the North. In the fight against the American war of destruction against the North, Hai Phong's army and people shot down 270 American planes, burned and sank 8 American warships, deserving the title "City of Loyalty and Victory".
International events taking place on August 6
August 6, 1284:The Republic of Pisa was defeated on the island of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thereby losing maritime supremacy in the Mediterranean.
August 6, 1806:As a result of the War of the Third Coalition, Emperor Franz II abdicated, and the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist after 844 years.
August 6, 1945:World War II: The United States Air Force drops the atomic bomb Little Boy (pictured) on Hiroshima, Japan, killing tens of thousands of people instantly.
August 6, 1991:Programmer Tim Berners-Lee posted a public invitation to collaborate on a system of hypertext documents, linked together, accessible over the Internet, called the World Wide Web.
