August 6th, 1944

Born on August 6th, 1944

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What happened on August 6th, 1944?

August 6th, 1944

The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising

August 6th, 1944

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

What else 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 Mohamed 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 (pictured with crew) dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, 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, 1623

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

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

Born on August 6th, 1944

80

Burt Blanca

Belgian singer

*August 6th, 1944, Brussels metropolitan area

80

Friedemann Schulz von Thun

German psychologist

*August 6th, 1944, Soltau

80

Martin Wharton

Anglican bishop (born 1944)

*August 6th, 1944, Ulverston

80

Michael Mingos

British chemist

*August 6th, 1944, Basra

59

Inday Badiday

Filipino actress

*August 6th, 1944, Manila †September 26th, 2003, Quezon City

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Who's birthday is on August 6th?

70

Allan Holdsworth

British musician (1946–2017)

*August 6th, 1946, Bradford †April 15th, 2017, Vista

84

Howard Hodgkin

British artist (1932-2017)

*August 6th, 1932, Hammersmith †March 9th, 2017, London

26

Einar Lurås Oftebro

Norwegian nordic combined skier

*August 6th, 1998, Norway

44

Roman Weidenfeller

German association football player

*August 6th, 1980, Diez

78

Silvano Basagni

Italian sport shooter (1938-2017)

*August 6th, 1938, Florence †May 10th, 2017, Florence

82

Jan Kubr

Czechoslovak biker

*August 6th, 1934, Krásný Dvůr †February 11th, 2017

62

Michelle Yeoh

Malaysian actress (born 1962)

*August 6th, 1962, Ipoh

70

Jürgen Owczarzak

German association football player

*August 6th, 1954, Stuttgart

58

Andy Warhol

American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)

*August 6th, 1928, Pittsburgh †February 22nd, 1987, New York City

72

Hans-Jörn Arp

German politician

*August 6th, 1952, Wacken

70

Byard Lancaster

American jazz musician (1942–2012)

*August 6th, 1942, Philadelphia †August 23rd, 2012, Wyndmoor

41

Robin van Persie

Dutch association football player and manager

*August 6th, 1983, Rotterdam

49

Mohammad Najibullah

4th General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

*August 6th, 1947, Gardēz †September 27th, 1996, Kabul

64

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)

*August 6th, 1960, Valladolid

55

Jon Postel

American computer scientist (1943–1998)

*August 6th, 1943, Altadena †October 16th, 1998, Santa Monica

39

Bafétimbi Gomis

French-Senegalese association football player

*August 6th, 1985, La Seyne-sur-Mer

76

Claudia Porsche

German lobbyiist and former prosecutor, professor and politician

*August 6th, 1948, Balingen

74

Dorian Harewood

American actor (born 1950)

*August 6th, 1950, Dayton

54

M. Night Shyamalan

American screenwriter, film director and producer

*August 6th, 1970, Mahé

73

Alexander Fleming

Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)

*August 6th, 1881, Lochfield †March 11th, 1955, London

Same year
Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

80

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

80

John Rhys-Davies

Welsh actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Gernot Erler

German politician

*May 3rd, 1944, Meissen

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

80

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

80

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

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Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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