What happend on 6th August

05.08
07.08
1926

Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.

1915

World War I: Battle of Battle of Sari Bair begins

1914

Ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea, begining the First Battle of the Atlantic.

1901

Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.

1890

At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electric chair is performed, with murderer William Kemmler as the subject.

1862

American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

1861

British annexation of Lagos, Nigeria.

1825

Bolivia gains independence from Spain.

1819

Norwich University founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.

1806

Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.