Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 6
This is a list of selected August 6 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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August 6: Feast of the Transfiguration in Christianity; Independence Day in Bolivia (1825) and Jamaica (1962)
- 1806 – The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved after its last emperor Francis II was forced to abdicate.
- 1890 – In Auburn, New York, USA, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in an electric chair.
- 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force dropped an atomic bomb named Little Boy (pictured) on Hiroshima, Japan, killing as many as 140,000 people.
- 1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for widespread disfranchisement of African Americans in the United States.
- 1991 – British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee first posted files describing his ideas for a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessible via the Internet, to be called a "World Wide Web".