Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 6
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This is a list of selected August 6 anniversaries that appears on 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 may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.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".
