Public Holidays on August 6

• 🌍 Batalla de Junín (Peru)

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On This Day in History — August 6

• 2015 — A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.
• 2012 — NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
• 2011 — War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, 7 Afghan soldiers, and 1 Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the...
• 2010 — Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
• 2008 — A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
• 2001 — Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to a chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.

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Notable Births on August 6

• 1995 — Rebecca Peterson, Swedish tennis player
• 1992 — Tara Moore, British tennis player
• 1991 — Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
• 1986 — Mehmet Akgün, Turkish footballer
• 1986 — Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player
• 1985 — Viktoria Baškite, Estonian chess player

Notable Deaths on August 6

• 2017 — Darren Daulton, American baseball player (b. 1962)
• 2017 — Betty Cuthbert, Australian sprinter (b. 1938)
• 2015 — Ray Hill, American football player (b. 1975)
• 2015 — Frederick R. Payne, Jr., American general and pilot (b. 1911)
• 2015 — Orna Porat, German-Israeli actress (b. 1924)
• 2014 — Ralph Bryans, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1941)

Public Holidays on August 7

• 🌍 Batalla de Boyacá (Colombia)
• 🌍 Battle of Boyacá (Colombia)

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On This Day in History — August 7

• 2008 — The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.
• 1999 — The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
• 1998 — Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
• 1990 — First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
• 1989 — U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
• 1987 — Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union

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Notable Births on August 7

• 1993 — Martti Nõmme, Estonian ski jumper
• 1993 — Zaur Sizo, Russian footballer
• 1993 — Karol Zalewski, Polish sprinter
• 1992 — Ariel Camacho, Mexican singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1992 — Adam Yates, English cyclist
• 1992 — Simon Yates, English cyclist

Notable Deaths on August 7

• 2016 — Bryan Clauson, American racing driver (b. 1989)
• 2015 — Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (b. 1929)
• 2015 — Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian pharmacologist and physician (b. 1914)
• 2015 — Louise Suggs, American golfer, co-founded LPGA (b. 1923)
• 2014 — Víctor Fayad, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1955)
• 2014 — Perry Moss, American football player and coach (b. 1926)