Talk:August 6

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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 the last emperor Francis II was forced to abdicate. 1890 – At Auburn Prison in the 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 an estimated 80,000 people. 1966 – Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan became emir and ruler of Abu Dhabi, succeeding his brother Shaikh Shakhbut Bin-Sultan Al Nahyan who was deposed in a bloodless coup d'état. 1991 – British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee suggested a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessible via the Internet, to be called a "World Wide Web". More events: August 5 – August 6 – August 7 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 12:45, June 14, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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I'm new to Wikipedia as well, and viewing the list of birhtday's, I missed my birthday. It's August 6, 1977, my name is George Brian Fox. Thank you.

Unless you meet the criteria outlined in WP:BIO and already have a Wikipedia article (not a user page) about yourself, your birthday should not be noted here. Fabricationary 02:23, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm brand new to Wikipedia, not brave enough to edit a page, but... The first link on the August 6 day in history links to the wrong Francis I. Yes, he was Francis I in his own domain, but he was Francis II as far as the Holy Roman Empire was concerned. The linked Francis I died in 1765 on his way back from the opera in Innspruck. If he waited until August 6, 1806 to abdicate as the last Holy Roman Emperor, then the HRE was moribund indeed.

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[edit] August 6, 2001

The way the event is worded for the daily posting is an NPOV violation. The briefing showed that there was a possibility that al-Qaeda may attack and what strategies they may employ, not that an attack was imminent. --Kitch 02:47, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing is not notable. Period.

I've removed this entry three times:

• 2005 - Hiroshima marks the 60th anniversary atomic bombing of the city.

How, exactly, is this notable? Unless something which was itself notable happened at an observation of this anniversary, then listing this anniversary — or any other Nth anniversary — serves no purpose but to clutter up the page.

Arguing "well, this is the sixtieth anniversary, and the sixtieth anniversary is significant, so therefore we should list it" fails. After all, this event has been commemorated annually starting in 1946; there is no listing for the tenth, twentieth, thirtieth, fortieth, or fiftieth anniversaries; and the actual, original, and highly notable event is listed on this very page.

Please stop putting this listing back. It is not necessary here. - jredmond 07:44, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Well said. The event is already listed in 1945, where it should be. we don't need to mark anniversaries here. Kingturtle 09:49, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Is this addition needed? It's minor, But it's weird how it doesn't talk about something that happened on August 6th. 72.10.110.107 (talk) 16:58, 14 January 2008 (UTC)