August 6th, 1949

Born on August 6th, 1949

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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

Born on August 6th, 1949

76

Olli Ahvenlahti

Finnish musician, composer and conductor

*August 6th, 1949, Helsinki

Same year
Born in 1949

76

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

77

Joachim Witt

German rock musician

*February 22nd, 1949, Hamburg

70

Jahn Teigen

Norwegian singer, musician, and comedian (1949–2020)

*September 27th, 1949, Tønsberg †February 24th, 2020, Ystad

77

Åse Kleveland

Swedish-Norwegian singer and politician

*March 18th, 1949, Stockholm

76

David Rubenstein

American businessman

*August 11th, 1949, Baltimore

76

Sherman Howard

American actor

*June 11th, 1949, Chicago

77

Egon Flaig

German university teacher, Historian of classical antiquity and writer

*May 16th, 1949, Oberstenfeld

76

Meryl Streep

American actress (born 1949)

*June 22nd, 1949, Summit

66

Papa Wemba

Congolese singer, musician and actor (1949-2016)

*June 14th, 1949, Lubefu †April 24th, 2016, Abidjan

76

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Austrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher

*September 2nd, 1949, Peine

67

Denis Johnson

American writer (novel, drama, poetry, essay) (1949-2017)

*July 1st, 1949, Munich †May 24th, 2017, Sea Ranch

77

Hans Michelbach

German politician

*May 3rd, 1949, Gemünden am Main

76

Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999, 2009–2021, 2022–present)

*October 21st, 1949, Tel Aviv

76

Gloria Gaynor

American singer

*September 7th, 1949, Newark

76

Bruce Springsteen

American rock singer (born 1949)

*September 23rd, 1949, Long Branch

77

Jessica Lange

American actress

*April 20th, 1949, Cloquet

67

Carlos Slepoy

Argentinian lawyer (1949-2017)

*October 2nd, 1949, Buenos Aires †April 17th, 2017, Madrid

68

Stanley Greene

American photographer (1949-2017)

*February 14th, 1949, Brooklyn †May 19th, 2017, Paris

77

António Guterres

Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2017

*April 30th, 1949, Lisbon

67

Howard Schmidt

American computer security expert (1949-2017)

*October 5th, 1949, Philadelphia †March 2nd, 2017, Muskego

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No: With 365 days 1949 is a normal year and no leap year.

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