August 6th, 1988

Born on August 6th, 1988

Age in days, weeks and months
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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 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

On approach to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport in Guam, Korean Air Flight 801 crashed into a hill, 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, 2015

A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.

August 6th, 2012

NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

August 6th, 2011

War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.

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

Born on August 6th, 1988

35

Mai Phuong Thuy

Miss Vietnam 2006

*August 6th, 1988, Hanoi

35

Spencer Matthews

British entrepreneur (born 1988)

*August 6th, 1988, Grantham

35

Jared Murillo

American dancer

*August 6th, 1988, Honolulu

35

Masataka Kubota

Japanese actor

*August 6th, 1988, Kanagawa Prefecture

35

Dane DiLiegro

American actor and basketball player

*August 6th, 1988, Lexington

35

Chelsee Healey

English actress

*August 6th, 1988, Salford

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 6th?

25

Einar Lurås Oftebro

Norwegian nordic combined skier

*August 6th, 1998, Norway

43

Roman Weidenfeller

German association football player

*August 6th, 1980, Diez

38

Bafétimbi Gomis

French-Senegalese association football player

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

40

Robin van Persie

Dutch association football player and manager

*August 6th, 1983, Rotterdam

84

Howard Hodgkin

British artist (1932-2017)

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

42

Leslie Odom Jr.

American actor and singer (born 1981)

*August 6th, 1981, Queens

61

Michelle Yeoh

Malaysian actress (born 1962)

*August 6th, 1962, Ipoh

30

Amin Younes

German association football player

*August 6th, 1993, Düsseldorf

37

Jérôme Coppel

Road bicycle racer

*August 6th, 1986, Annemasse

38

Mickaël Delage

Road bicycle racer

*August 6th, 1985, Libourne

78

Silvano Basagni

Italian sport shooter (1938-2017)

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

53

M. Night Shyamalan

American screenwriter, film director and producer

*August 6th, 1970, Mahé

39

Vedad Ibišević

Bosnian association football player

*August 6th, 1984, Vlasenica

70

Allan Holdsworth

British musician (1946–2017)

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

50

Asia Carrera

American pornographic actress

*August 6th, 1973, New York City

82

Jan Kubr

Czechoslovak biker

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

36

Aditya Narayan

Indian actor and singer

*August 6th, 1987, Mumbai

69

Jürgen Owczarzak

German association football player

*August 6th, 1954, Stuttgart

46

Ashlie Atkinson

American actress

*August 6th, 1977, Little Rock

58

Andy Warhol

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

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

Same year
Born in 1988

35

Adele

British singer

*May 5th, 1988, Tottenham

36

Wang Yihan

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1988, Shanghai

35

Mizuki Fujii

Badminton player

*August 5th, 1988, Ashikita

35

Ma Jin

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

35

Arun Vishnu

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Kozhikode

36

Line Damkjær Kruse

Badminton player

*January 7th, 1988, Aarhus

36

Chan Yun Lung

Badminton player

*February 29th, 1988, Hong Kong

35

Gzuz

German rapper

*June 29th, 1988, Hamburg

36

KC Rebell

German rapper

*January 26th, 1988, Pazarcık

36

Christian Meaas Svendsen

Norwegian musician

*February 26th, 1988, Kongsberg Municipality

35

Jérôme Boateng

German association football player

*September 3rd, 1988, West Berlin

35

Pramod Bhagat

Indian para-badminton player

*June 4th, 1988, Attabira

35

Mats Hummels

German association football player

*December 16th, 1988, Bergisch Gladbach

35

Sara Hjort Ditlevsen

Danish actress

*May 23rd, 1988, Copenhagen

35

Monika Lewczuk

Polish singer-songwriter and former model

*June 10th, 1988, Łomża

36

Gabi Tóth

Hungarian singer

*January 17th, 1988, Tapolca

35

Friðrik Dór

Icelandic singer

*October 7th, 1988, Hafnarfjörður

36

Marcel Schmelzer

German footballer

*January 22nd, 1988, Magdeburg

35

Lyna bonasera

Belgian actress

*May 17th, 1988, West Los Angeles

35

Savitree Amitrapai

Badminton player

*November 19th, 1988, Bangkok

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Leap year

Yes: 1988 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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