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''Knowing the past, we can make wise
choices for a brighter, and more positive future.''
| 1497 | John Cabot returns to England after his first successful journey to the Labrador coast. | |
| 1863 | The CSS Alabama captures the USS Sea Bride near the Cape of Good Hope. | |
| 1888 | Martha Turner is murdered by an unknown assailant, believed to be Jack the Ripper, in London, England. | |
| 1890 | William Kemmler becomes the first man to be executed by the electric chair. | |
| 1904 | The Japanese army in Korea surrounds a Russian army retreating to Manchuria. | |
| 1914 | Ellen Louise Wilson, the first wife of the twenty-eighth president, Woodrow Wilson, dies of Bright's disease. | |
| 1927 | A Massachusetts high court hears the final plea from Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italians convicted of murder. | |
| 1942 | The Soviet city of Voronezh falls to the German army. | |
| 1945 | Paul Tibbets, the commander of Enola Gay, drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, that induced the Japanese to surrender. | |
| 1962 | Jamaica becomes independent, after 300 years of British rule. | |
| 1965 | President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, outlawing the literacy test for voting eligibility in the South. | |
| 1972 | Atlanta Braves' right fielder Hank Aaron hits his 660th and 661st home runs, setting the Major League record for most home runs by a player for a single franchise. | |
| 1973 | Singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder is in an automobile accident and goes into a four-day coma. | |
| 1979 | Twelve-year-old Marcus Hooper becomes the youngest person to swim the English Channel. | |
| 1981 | Argentina's ex-president Isabel Peron is freed from house arrest. | |
| 1988 | A melee that became known as the Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City leads to NYPD reforms. | |
| 1991 | Tim Berners-Lee publishes the first-ever website, Info.cern.ch. | |
| 1993 | Pope John Paul II publishes "Veritatis splendor encyclical," regarding fundamentals of the Catholic Church's role in moral teachings. | |
| 1997 | Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in troubled rival Apple Computer, Inc. | |
| 2012 |
New Zealand's Mount Tongariro erupts for the first time since 1897.
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Born on August 6
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| 1809 | Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet laureate (1850), wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade." | |
| 1881 | Alexander Flemming, Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928. | |
| 1889 | Major General George Kenney, commander of the U.S. Fifth Air Force in New Guinea and the Solomons during World War II. | |
| 1911 | Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian. | |
| 1916 | Richard Hofstadter, historian who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. | |
| 1927 | Andy Warhol, American pop artist. | |
| 1934 | Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, science fiction and fantasy author (Xanth series). | |
| 1950 | Winston E. Scott, US Navy commander and astronaut. | |
| 1970 | M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American screenwriter, director and producer (The Sixth Sense, The Village). | |
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