August 6 Holidays

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 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... ↗
• 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. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 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