Public Holidays on August 5

• 🌍 July Mass Uprising Day (Bangladesh)

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On This Day in History — August 5

• 2015 — The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases 3 million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado.
• 2012 — The Oak Creek shooting took place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people; the perpetrator was shot dead by police.
• 2010 — The Copiapó mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners approximately 2,300 ft (700 m) below the ground.
• 2010 — Ten members of International Assistance Mission Nuristan Eye Camp team are killed by persons unknown in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan.
• 2003 — A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
• 1995 — Yugoslav Wars: The city of Knin, Croatia, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day.

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Notable Births on August 5

• 1997 — Jack Cogger, Australian rugby league player
• 1996 — Takakeishō Mitsunobu, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1995 — Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Danish footballer
• 1991 — Esteban Gutiérrez, Mexican race car driver
• 1991 — Konrad Hurrell, Tongan rugby league player
• 1991 — Andreas Weimann, Austrian footballer

Notable Deaths on August 5

• 2015 — Arthur Walter James, English journalist and politician (b. 1912)
• 2015 — Tony Millington, Welsh footballer (b. 1943)
• 2014 — Harold J. Greene, American general (b. 1962)
• 2014 — Vladimir Orlov, Russian author (b. 1936)
• 2014 — Chapman Pincher, Indian-English historian, journalist, and author (b. 1914)
• 2014 — Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1927)

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)