Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
August 6
| 1497 | John Cabot returns to England after his first successful journey to the Labrador coast. | |
| 1863 | The CSS Alabama captures the USS Sea Bride near the Cape of Good Hope. | |
| 1888 | Martha Turner is murdered by an unknown assailant, believed to be Jack the Ripper, in London, England. | |
| 1890 | William Kemmler becomes the first man to be executed by the electric chair. | |
| 1904 | The Japanese army in Korea surrounds a Russian army retreating to Manchuria. | |
| 1914 | Ellen Louise Wilson, the first wife of the twenty-eighth president, Woodrow Wilson, dies of Barite's disease. | |
| 1927 | A Massachusetts high court hears the final plea from Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italians convicted of murder. | |
| 1942 | The Soviet city of Voronezh falls to the German army. | |
| 1945 | Paul Tibbets, the commander of Enola Gay, drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.It was the second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, that induced the Japanese to surrender. | |
| 1965 | President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, outlawing the literacy test for voting eligibility in the South. | |
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| 1809 | Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet laureate (1850), wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade." | |
| 1881 | Alexander Flemming, Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928. | |
| 1889 | Major General George Kenney, commander of the U.S. Fifth Air Force in New Guinea and the Solomons during World War II. | |
| 1911 | Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian. | |
| 1916 | Richard Hofstadter, historian who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work | |
| 1927 | Andy Warhol, American pop artist. | |
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In your list of birthdays for 6 August you list Richard Hofstadler, physicist etc., This is wrong. Robert Hofstadter was the Nobel laureate physicist and was born in Feb 1915.
Richard Hofstadter, born 6 Aug 1916, was a historian and professor at Columbia Univ.