August 6th, 1965

Born on August 6th, 1965

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What happened on August 6th, 1965?

August 6th, 1965

US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

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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.

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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 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, 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.

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

Born on August 6th, 1965

60

David Robinson

American basketball player

*August 6th, 1965, Key West

60

Thomas Schönlebe

German sprinter

*August 6th, 1965, Frauenstein

60

Yuki Kajiura

Japanese composer and music producer

*August 6th, 1965, Tokyo

60

Ulrich von Plettenberg

Vicar general of the Diocese of Trier

*August 6th, 1965, Birkenfeld

60

Cherno Jobatey

German television presenter and journalist

*August 6th, 1965, Berlin

60

Juliane Köhler

German actress

*August 6th, 1965, Göttingen

60

Olivier Megaton

French film director

*August 6th, 1965, Issy-les-Moulineaux

60

James Delingpole

English writer

*August 6th, 1965, Alvechurch

60

Jeremy Ratchford

Canadian actor

*August 6th, 1965, Kitchener

Same year
Born in 1965

61

Martin Sonneborn

German satirist, journalist and politician

*May 15th, 1965, Göttingen

61

Claudine Loquen

French painter and sculptor

*February 22nd, 1965, Sainte-Adresse

61

Jan Tore Sanner

Norwegian politician

*May 6th, 1965, Bærum Municipality

53

Jörg Stübner

German footballer (1965–2019)

*July 23rd, 1965, Freiberg †June 24th, 2019, Dresden

60

J. K. Rowling

British author and philanthropist (born 1965)

*July 31st, 1965, Yate

60

Norbert Röttgen

German politician (CDU)

*July 2nd, 1965, Meckenheim

61

Hansi Flick

German association football player and manager

*February 24th, 1965, Heidelberg

60

Dmitry Medvedev

President of Russia from 2008 to 2012

*September 14th, 1965, Saint Petersburg

60

Karl-Heinz Riedle

German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1965, Weiler-Simmerberg

60

Andreas Thom

German association football player and manager

*September 7th, 1965, Rüdersdorf bei Berlin

60

Bastian Sick

German journalist

*July 17th, 1965, Lübeck

60

Gero Miesenböck

Austrian neuroscientist

*July 15th, 1965, Braunau am Inn

48

Wolfgang Herrndorf

German novelist, painter, and illustrator (1965-2013)

*June 12th, 1965, Hamburg †August 26th, 2013, Berlin

60

Shah Rukh Khan

Indian actor, producer and television personality

*November 2nd, 1965, New Delhi

61

Brooke Shields

American actress (born 1965)

*May 31st, 1965, Manhattan

60

Viola Davis

American actress and producer (born 1965)

*August 11th, 1965, St. Matthews

60

Winfried Bausback

German politician

*October 22nd, 1965, Aschaffenburg

60

Salman Khan

Indian actor and producer (born 1965)

*December 27th, 1965, Indore

60

Petro Poroshenko

5th President of Ukraine

*September 26th, 1965, Bolhrad

60

Laurent Blanc

French association football player and manager

*November 19th, 1965, Alès

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No: With 365 days 1965 is a normal year and no leap year.

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