What happend on 6th August

05.08
07.08
2002

Manindra Agrawal et al prove the long standing number theory conjecture in the article entitled "Primes in P".

2002

Marquis de la Fayette is made Honorary Citizen of the United States

2001

White House briefing entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. delivered to George W. Bush. This document foreshadowed the September 11, 2001 attacks.

2000

The Roman Catholic Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under Prefect Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, publishes Dominus Iesus, notable for its lack of the filioque clause in the Latin text of the Nicene Creed.

1997

Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.

1997

Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled Apple Computer.

1996

NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

1993

The Fugitive opens in theaters, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.

1993

Louis Freeh is confirmed by the United States Senate to be the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

1991

Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.