August 6
Today is the 218th day of 2015; there are 147 days left in the year.
1806 - The Holy Roman Empire came to an end with the abdication of Emperor Francis II.
1825 - Upper Peru became the autonomous republic of Bolivia.
1890 - The electric chair was used for the first time, to execute a convicted murderer at Auburn State Prison in New York.
1911 - Actress Lucille Ball was born.
1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war on Russia, and Serbia declared war against Germany at the outbreak of World War I.
1945 - The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, that instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
1962 - Jamaica became an independent dominion within the Commonwealth of Nations.
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.
2003 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy to replace Gray Davis as governor of California.
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 rover Curiosity landed on the surface of Mars.
Birthdays
21 - Charlotte McKinney (model)
32 - Adrianne Curry (model)
33 - Travie McCoy (rapper)
36 - Marissa Miller (model)
38 - Soleil Moon Frye (actress)
41 - Vera Farmiga (actress)
42 - Geri Halliwell (singer)
44 - M Night Shyamalan (director)
49 - David Robinson (basketball player)
63 - Catherine Hicks (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.
1908 - John Lush of the St. Louis Cardinals no-hits the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1937 - The Cleveland Indians overturn New York Yankees' 7-6 win by way of a protest.
1952 - Satchel Paige, at age 46, became the oldest pitcher to play in a major league baseball game.
1960 - The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL 43-16 in Toronto.
1967 - Dean Chance of the Minnesota Twins throws a shortened 5-inning perfect game in a 2-0 win over the Boston Red Sox.
1980 - The Pac-10 Conference ruled half of their membership (USC, UCLA, Oregon, Oregon State and Arizona State) were ineligible for the conference football championship that year due to various violations or league rules and other standards.
1981 - Lee Trevino was disqualified from the PGA Championship in Duluth, Georgia when he had his scorecard signed by Tom Weiskopf instead of himself.
1986 - The Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers combine for a major league record three grand slams in one game.
1989 - The Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8.
Today is the 218th day of 2015; there are 147 days left in the year.
1806 - The Holy Roman Empire came to an end with the abdication of Emperor Francis II.
1825 - Upper Peru became the autonomous republic of Bolivia.
1890 - The electric chair was used for the first time, to execute a convicted murderer at Auburn State Prison in New York.
1911 - Actress Lucille Ball was born.
1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war on Russia, and Serbia declared war against Germany at the outbreak of World War I.
1945 - The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, that instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
1962 - Jamaica became an independent dominion within the Commonwealth of Nations.
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.
2003 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy to replace Gray Davis as governor of California.
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 rover Curiosity landed on the surface of Mars.
Birthdays
21 - Charlotte McKinney (model)
32 - Adrianne Curry (model)
33 - Travie McCoy (rapper)
36 - Marissa Miller (model)
38 - Soleil Moon Frye (actress)
41 - Vera Farmiga (actress)
42 - Geri Halliwell (singer)
44 - M Night Shyamalan (director)
49 - David Robinson (basketball player)
63 - Catherine Hicks (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.
1908 - John Lush of the St. Louis Cardinals no-hits the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1937 - The Cleveland Indians overturn New York Yankees' 7-6 win by way of a protest.
1952 - Satchel Paige, at age 46, became the oldest pitcher to play in a major league baseball game.
1960 - The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL 43-16 in Toronto.
1967 - Dean Chance of the Minnesota Twins throws a shortened 5-inning perfect game in a 2-0 win over the Boston Red Sox.
1980 - The Pac-10 Conference ruled half of their membership (USC, UCLA, Oregon, Oregon State and Arizona State) were ineligible for the conference football championship that year due to various violations or league rules and other standards.
1981 - Lee Trevino was disqualified from the PGA Championship in Duluth, Georgia when he had his scorecard signed by Tom Weiskopf instead of himself.
1986 - The Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers combine for a major league record three grand slams in one game.
1989 - The Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8.
