August 6
1806 - The Holy Roman Empire ended with the abdication of Emperor Francis II.
1825 - Bolivia declared independence from Peru.
1890 - The electric chair was used for the first time as a means of execution, to execute a convicted murderer at Auburn State Prison in New York.
1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia, and Serbia declared war against Germany at the outbreak of World War I.
1926 - Gertrude Ederle became the first U.S. woman to swim across the English Channel.
1945 - The first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped by the United States from the B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" over Hiroshima, Japan during World War II; an estimated 66,000 people were killed instantly in the blast.
1962 - Jamaica gained its independence in the British Commonwealth.
1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law, which outlawed poll taxes and literacy tests that had restricted Black voter registration in the South.
1978 - Pope Paul VI died at age 80.
1986 - William J. Schroeder died at Humana Hospital-Audubon in Louisville, Kentucky, after living 620 days with the Jarvik 7 artificial heart.
1991 - The World Wide Web made its public debut as a means of accessing webpages over he Internet.
1993 - Louis Freeh won Senate confirmation to be FBI director.
1997 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams meet -- the first time in 76 years that a British leader and an IRA ally meet.
2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy to replace Gray Davis as governor of California to Jay Leno on NBC's Tonight Show.
2005 - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier-son, Casey, was killed in Iraq, began a weeks-long protest outside President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch.
2007 - The Crandall Canyon Mine in central Utah collapsed, trapping six coal miners. (All six miners died, along with three rescuers.)
2008 - The government declared that Army scientist Bruce Ivins was solely responsible for the anthrax attacks that killed five in 2001. (Ivins had committed suicide on July 29.)
2008 - A U.S. military jury convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, of supporting terrorism in the first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay.
2009 - Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice by a Senate vote of 68-31.
2011 - Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter in Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the elite Navy commando unit that had slain Osama bin Laden; seven Afghan commandos also died.
2011 - Violence erupted in London amid anger over the fatal police shooting of a 29-year-old father of four; rioting and looting spread to other parts of the city and other English cities over the next several days, leaving five dead.
2012 - The NASA rover Curiosity landed on the surface of Mars.
2015 - Jon Stewart bade an emotional goodbye after 16 years as host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.”
Birthdays
28 - Charlotte McKinney (model)
31 - Ferne McCann (reality star)
39 - Romola Garai (actress)
40 - Leslie Odom Jr. (actor)
45 - Melissa George (actress)
45 - Soleil Moon Frye (actress)
48 - Vera Farmiga (actress)
48 - David Campbell (actor/singer)
49 - Jason O'Mara (actor)
49 - Geri Halliwell Horner (singer)
51 - M. Night Shyamalan (director)
53 - Lisa Stewart (country singer)
53 - Benito Martinez (actor)
56 - Jeremy Ratchford (actor)
56 - David Robinson (basketball player)
57 - Patsy Lynn (country singer)
57 - Peggy Lynn (country singer)
59 - Michelle Yeoh (actress)
61 - Leland Orser (actor)
63 - Randy DeBarge (singer)
64 - Faith Prince (actress)
65 - Stepfanie Kramer (actress)
70 - Catherine Hicks (actress)
78 - Michael Anderson Jr. (actor)
81 - Louise Sorel (actress)
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Today in Sports History - August 6
1890 - Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young made his major league debut with the Cleveland Spiders of the National League.
1949 - Chicago White Sox player Luke Appling played in the 2,154th game of his 19-year, major league career.
1952 - Satchel Paige of the St. Louis Browns, at age 46, became the oldest pitcher to complete a major league baseball game in a 1-0 complete game shutout over the Detroit Tigers.
1953 - Future Hall of Famer Ted Williams returns to the Boston Red Sox lineup from military service.
1963 - The NBA's Philadelphia Nationals changes its name to "76ers" in honor of the Declaration of Independence being signed in the city in 1776.
1972 - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 660th and 661st home runs, breaking Babe Ruth's record for most home runs hit for one team.
1973 - Roberto Clemente, Warren Spahn, Billy Evans, Monte Irvin, Mickey Welch and George Kelly are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1981 - Lee Trevino was disqualified from the PGA Championship in Duluth, Georgia when he had his scorecard signed by Tom Weiskopf instead of himself.
1989 - The Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yaztrzemski's #8.
1990 - Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1999 - Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres records his 3,000th career hit.
2001 - American sprinter Marion Jones has her streak of 42 consecutive 100 meter dash victories snapped by Zhanna Block of Ukraine at the World Championships in Edmonton, Canada.
2006 - At age 30, Tiger Woods becomes the youngest player in PGA history to accumulate 50 PGA Tour wins.
2011 - Deion Sanders, Marshall Faulk, Shannon Sharpe, Richard Dent, Chris Hanburger, Les Richter and NFL Films founder Ed Sabol were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2016 - Brett Favre, Tony Dungy, and Marvin Harrison were among an eight-member class inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
1806 - The Holy Roman Empire ended with the abdication of Emperor Francis II.
1825 - Bolivia declared independence from Peru.
1890 - The electric chair was used for the first time as a means of execution, to execute a convicted murderer at Auburn State Prison in New York.
1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia, and Serbia declared war against Germany at the outbreak of World War I.
1926 - Gertrude Ederle became the first U.S. woman to swim across the English Channel.
1945 - The first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped by the United States from the B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" over Hiroshima, Japan during World War II; an estimated 66,000 people were killed instantly in the blast.
1962 - Jamaica gained its independence in the British Commonwealth.
1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law, which outlawed poll taxes and literacy tests that had restricted Black voter registration in the South.
1978 - Pope Paul VI died at age 80.
1986 - William J. Schroeder died at Humana Hospital-Audubon in Louisville, Kentucky, after living 620 days with the Jarvik 7 artificial heart.
1991 - The World Wide Web made its public debut as a means of accessing webpages over he Internet.
1993 - Louis Freeh won Senate confirmation to be FBI director.
1997 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams meet -- the first time in 76 years that a British leader and an IRA ally meet.
2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy to replace Gray Davis as governor of California to Jay Leno on NBC's Tonight Show.
2005 - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier-son, Casey, was killed in Iraq, began a weeks-long protest outside President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch.
2007 - The Crandall Canyon Mine in central Utah collapsed, trapping six coal miners. (All six miners died, along with three rescuers.)
2008 - The government declared that Army scientist Bruce Ivins was solely responsible for the anthrax attacks that killed five in 2001. (Ivins had committed suicide on July 29.)
2008 - A U.S. military jury convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, of supporting terrorism in the first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay.
2009 - Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice by a Senate vote of 68-31.
2011 - Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter in Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the elite Navy commando unit that had slain Osama bin Laden; seven Afghan commandos also died.
2011 - Violence erupted in London amid anger over the fatal police shooting of a 29-year-old father of four; rioting and looting spread to other parts of the city and other English cities over the next several days, leaving five dead.
2012 - The NASA rover Curiosity landed on the surface of Mars.
2015 - Jon Stewart bade an emotional goodbye after 16 years as host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.”
Birthdays
28 - Charlotte McKinney (model)
31 - Ferne McCann (reality star)
39 - Romola Garai (actress)
40 - Leslie Odom Jr. (actor)
45 - Melissa George (actress)
45 - Soleil Moon Frye (actress)
48 - Vera Farmiga (actress)
48 - David Campbell (actor/singer)
49 - Jason O'Mara (actor)
49 - Geri Halliwell Horner (singer)
51 - M. Night Shyamalan (director)
53 - Lisa Stewart (country singer)
53 - Benito Martinez (actor)
56 - Jeremy Ratchford (actor)
56 - David Robinson (basketball player)
57 - Patsy Lynn (country singer)
57 - Peggy Lynn (country singer)
59 - Michelle Yeoh (actress)
61 - Leland Orser (actor)
63 - Randy DeBarge (singer)
64 - Faith Prince (actress)
65 - Stepfanie Kramer (actress)
70 - Catherine Hicks (actress)
78 - Michael Anderson Jr. (actor)
81 - Louise Sorel (actress)
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Today in Sports History - August 6
1890 - Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young made his major league debut with the Cleveland Spiders of the National League.
1949 - Chicago White Sox player Luke Appling played in the 2,154th game of his 19-year, major league career.
1952 - Satchel Paige of the St. Louis Browns, at age 46, became the oldest pitcher to complete a major league baseball game in a 1-0 complete game shutout over the Detroit Tigers.
1953 - Future Hall of Famer Ted Williams returns to the Boston Red Sox lineup from military service.
1963 - The NBA's Philadelphia Nationals changes its name to "76ers" in honor of the Declaration of Independence being signed in the city in 1776.
1972 - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 660th and 661st home runs, breaking Babe Ruth's record for most home runs hit for one team.
1973 - Roberto Clemente, Warren Spahn, Billy Evans, Monte Irvin, Mickey Welch and George Kelly are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1981 - Lee Trevino was disqualified from the PGA Championship in Duluth, Georgia when he had his scorecard signed by Tom Weiskopf instead of himself.
1989 - The Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yaztrzemski's #8.
1990 - Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1999 - Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres records his 3,000th career hit.
2001 - American sprinter Marion Jones has her streak of 42 consecutive 100 meter dash victories snapped by Zhanna Block of Ukraine at the World Championships in Edmonton, Canada.
2006 - At age 30, Tiger Woods becomes the youngest player in PGA history to accumulate 50 PGA Tour wins.
2011 - Deion Sanders, Marshall Faulk, Shannon Sharpe, Richard Dent, Chris Hanburger, Les Richter and NFL Films founder Ed Sabol were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2016 - Brett Favre, Tony Dungy, and Marvin Harrison were among an eight-member class inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
