WHAT HAPPENED ON 6. AUGUST
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World War I: Battle of Sari Bair – the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay. (6. August 1915)

World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins. (6. August 1917)

Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel. (6. August 1926)

In New York, New York, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore. (6. August 1926)

Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again. (6. August 1930)

Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union. (6. August 1940)

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress. (6. August 1942)

The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Krakow are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising--the Krakow Uprising (1944)-- that was planned but never carried out. (6. August 1944)

World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning. (6. August 1945)

After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series. (6. August 1956)

Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation. (6. August 1960)

Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom. (6. August 1962)

Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down. (6. August 1964)

US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. (6. August 1965)

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi. (6. August 1976)

A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. (6. August 1986)

The Tompkins Square Park Riot in New York City spurs a reform of the NYPD, held responsible for the event. (6. August 1988)

Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. (6. August 1990)

Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet. (6. August 1991)

Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives. (6. August 1991)