Sunday Open Thread: August 6th is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony

World History

On August 6, 1661, The Treaty of The Hague was signed On August 6, 1806, The Holy Roman Empire ended with the abdictation of Francis II On August 6, 1825, Bolivia won independence from Spain. On August 6, 1914, Serbia declared war on Germany and Austria declared war on Russia. On August 6, 1945, The US dropped the world's first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima. On August 6, 1960, Cuba nationalized foreign property. Everybody but the US eventually got over it. On August 6, 1990, The UN Security Council ordered a global trade embargo against Iraq

US History

On August 6, 1787, Proofs of the Constitution were deliveed to the Constitutional Convention On August 6, 1901, Kiowa land in Oklahoma was opened for white settlement, destroying the Kiowa reservation On August 6, 1912, The Bull Moose Party met at the Chicago Coliseum. On August 6, 1965, LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Science & Technology

On August 6, 1926, The Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premiered, presaging 33 & 1/3 rpm LPs On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee released files describing the World Wide Web. On August 6, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars

The Arts

Misc.

ON August 6, 2001, 28 mentally ill persons died in a fire, chained to their beds awaiting devine instruction at a faith based mental institutuion in Erwadi Village in Tamil Nadu.

Birthdays of Note

August 6, 1619, Barbara Strozzi, singer and composer August 6, 1766, William Hyde Wollaston, chemist, discovered rhodium and palladium. August 6, 1775, Daniel O'Connell, politician August 6, 1809, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet August 6, 1881, Leo Carrillo, Pancho. Vamanos, muchachos. August 6, 1881, Alexander Fleming, biologist, botanist, pharmacologist. August 6, 1881, Louella Parsons, journalist August 6, 1895, Ernesto Lecuona, pianist and composer August 6, 1902, Dutch Schultz, businessman with famous last words "a boy has never wept ..." August 6, 1906, Vic Dickenson, trombonist August 6, 1908, Lajos Vajda, painter and illustrator August 6, 1916, Richard Hofstadter, historian August 6, 1928, Andy Warhol, painter, photographer, pop-artist with a diverse, iconoclastic coeterie August 6, 1929, Mike Elliott, saxophonist August 6, 1931, Chalmers Johnson, spook, author and academic. [1] August 6, 1934, Piers Anthony, sci-fi author August 6, 1937, Charlie Haden, bassist and composer August 6, 1937, Baden Powell de Aquino, guitarist and composer August 6, 1946, Allan Holdsworth, guitarist August 6, 1963, Kevin Mitnick, hacker

[1] "A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship." --- Chalmers Johnson

Deaths of Note

August 6, 1637, Ben Jonson, playwright and poet August 6, 1660, Diego Velazquez, painter August 6, 1931, Bix Beiderbecke, cornet player August 6, 1973, Fulgencio Batista, corrupt, repressive, authoritarian dictator loved by the US govt and many citizens. August 6, 1991, Harry Reasoner, journalist

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