August 6th, 1983

Born on August 6th, 1983

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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, 1983

42

Robin van Persie

Dutch association football player and manager

*August 6th, 1983, Rotterdam

42

Björn Kircheisen

German Nordic combined skier

*August 6th, 1983, Erlabrunn

42

Landon Pigg

Actor, singer-songwriter

*August 6th, 1983, Nashville

42

Loreto Aravena

Chilean actress

*August 6th, 1983, Santiago

Same year
Born in 1983

42

Kamilla Rytter Juhl

Danish badminton player

*November 23rd, 1983, Skagen

42

Loreen

Moroccan and Swedish singer and songwriter

*October 16th, 1983, Danderyd

42

Katrina Kaif

British-Indian actress (born 1983)

*July 16th, 1983, Hong Kong

42

Petya Nedelcheva

Bulgarian badminton player

*July 30th, 1983, Stara Zagora

43

John Lundvik

Swedish singer, songwriter, and former sprinter

*January 27th, 1983, London

43

Kaisa Mäkäräinen

Finnish biathlete

*January 11th, 1983, Ristijärvi

43

Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen

Member of the Danish parliament

*May 4th, 1983, Brovst

42

Carsten Mogensen

Danish badminton player

*July 24th, 1983, Roskilde

43

Bao Chunlai

Chinese badminton player

*February 17th, 1983, Changsha

43

Lee Jae-jin

South Korean badminton player

*January 26th, 1983, Miryang

43

Summer Cem

German rapper

*April 11th, 1983, Mönchengladbach

43

Liisi Koikson

Estonian singer

*June 4th, 1983, Kilingi-Nõmme

43

Seth Sentry

Australian rapper

*January 4th, 1983, Sorrento

42

Philipp Lahm

German association football player

*November 11th, 1983, Munich

42

Matthias Mangiapane

*September 29th, 1983, Langen

43

Laura de Boer

Dutch actress

*February 26th, 1983, Amsterdam

42

Daniel Norgren

Swedish singer

*July 18th, 1983, Borås

42

Mila Kunis

Ukrainian-American actress

*August 14th, 1983, Chernivtsi

43

Julius Onah

American film director

*February 10th, 1983, Makurdi

42

Andrew Garfield

British-American actor

*August 20th, 1983, Los Angeles

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No: With 365 days 1983 is a normal year and no leap year.

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