August 6th, 1509

Born on August 6th, 1509

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 188,000 days old!

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What happened on August 6th?

August 6th, 2013

A gas leak caused an explosion that collapsed a building and led to the deaths of 22 people in Rosario, Argentina.

August 6th, 2011

A series of riots broke out in several London boroughs and in cities and towns across England in response to the shooting of Mark Duggan by Metropolitan Police officers.

August 6th, 2010

Flash floods, mudslides, and debris flows across the Ladakh region of Indian-administered Kashmir left at least 255 people dead.

August 6th, 2008

Mauritanian president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by a group of high-ranking generals that he had dismissed from office several hours earlier.

August 6th, 1997

Korean Air Flight 801 crashed into a hill on approach to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport in Guam, killing 228 of the 254 people aboard.

August 6th, 1996

Researchers announced that the meteorite ALH84001 (pictured), discovered in the Allan Hills of Antarctica, may contain evidence of life on Mars, but further tests were inconclusive.

August 6th, 1991

British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee posted a public invitation to collaborate on a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessible via the Internet, known as the World Wide Web.

August 6th, 1965

U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disfranchisement of African Americans.

August 6th, 1945

World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (mushroom cloud pictured), killing about 70,000 people instantly.

August 6th, 1892

The Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company was founded in Antwerp to exploit natural rubber in the Congo Free State.

August 6th, 1777

The Battle of Oriskany, one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolutionary War, was fought about 6 mi (10 km) east of Fort Stanwix, New York.

August 6th, 0686

Second Fitna: Pro-Alid forces defeated the Umayyad Caliphate in the Battle of Khazir, allowing them to take control of Mosul in present-day Iraq.

August 6th, 1944

World War II: Allied forces attacked German fortifications at Saint-Malo, France, beginning the Battle of Saint-Malo (pictured).

August 6th, 1623

After the death of Gregory XV, a papal conclave in Rome elected Maffeo Barberini as Pope Urban VIII.

August 6th, 1585

Toyotomi Hideyoshi is officially appointed kampaku (Imperial Regent).

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 6th

Same year
Born in 1509

54

John Calvin

French Protestant reformer (1509–1564)

*July 10th, 1509, Noyon †May 27th, 1564, Geneva

69

Wolrad II, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg

Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1539-1578)

*March 27th, 1509, Bad Arolsen †April 15th, 1578, Eilhausen

52

Joachim I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

German prince

*August 7th, 1509, Dessau †December 6th, 1561, Dessau

85

Pasquale Cicogna

Doge of Venice (1509-1595)

*May 27th, 1509, Venice †April 2nd, 1595, Venice

37

Étienne Dolet

French translator and scholar (1509-1546)

*August 3rd, 1509, Orléans †August 3rd, 1546, Paris

57

Jean Goujon

French artist

*November 30th, 1509, Rouen †November 30th, 1566, Bologna

82

Gian Girolamo Albani

Italian cardinal (1509-1591)

*January 3rd, 1509, Bergamo †April 25th, 1591, Rome

71

Giovanni Morone

Cardinal

*January 25th, 1509, Milan †December 1st, 1580, Rome

63

Ippolito II d'Este

Catholic cardinal

*August 25th, 1509, Ferrara †December 2nd, 1572, Rome

51

Melchor Cano

Spanish theologian (1509-1560)

*January 6th, 1509, Tarancón †September 30th, 1560, Toledo

26

John of Leiden

Anabaptist leader, King of Munster (1509-1536)

*February 2nd, 1509, Zevenhoven †January 22nd, 1536, Münster

49

Cornelius Wischaven

*October 2nd, 1509, Mechelen †August 25th, 1559, Loreto

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1509 is a normal year and no leap year.

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