What happend on 6th August

05.08
07.08
1991

Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.

1990

Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait

1988

"Police riot" in New York City's Tompkins Square Park

1986

A low pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres of rain in a day on Sydney.

1984

Pop star Prince releases Purple Rain, the album which would launch him to superstardom.

1965

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

1962

Jamaica becomes independent.

1960

Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.

1945

World War II: the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 dead by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb.

1926

In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.