History Of 6 August | On This Day In World

In the history of the World, some other important events recorded on the date of 6 August are as follows: -

➧ 1774: Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shekhar movement, arrives in New York.

➧ 1825: Bolivia gained independence from Peru.

➧ 1862: Establishment of Madras High Court.

➧ 1906: Leading freedom fighter Chittaranjan Das and other Congress leaders together start publishing Vande Mataram newspaper.

➧ 1914: Austria declares war against Russia.

➧ 1925: Indian National Congress leader Surendra Nath Banerjee passed away.

➧ 1937: National Cancer Institute was established in the United States.

➧ 1945: The US drops atomic bombs on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.

➧ 1960: Cuba nationalizes all the country's assets.

➧ 1962: Jamaica gained independence.

➧ 1964: Prometheus, the world's oldest tree, was cut down in Nevada, USA.

➧ 1986: Birth of India's first test tube baby.

➧ 1991: Tim Berners-Lee released files describing his idea for the world wide web. www debuted as a publicly available service on the Internet.

➧ 1996: NASA predicts life on Mars.

➧ 2007: An old Hindu temple in central Trinidad was damaged.

➧ 2007: Hungarian scientists claim to have found fossils of cedar trees about 8 million years old.

➧ 2010: At least 255 people were killed in flash floods in Jammu and Kashmir.

➧ 2011: Yingluck Shinawatra of the Pewia Thai Group in Thailand became the first woman Prime Minister of the country.

➧ 2012: NASA's Curiosity rover reaches Mars.

➧ 2015: A suicide bomb attack in a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha killed at least 15 people.