It happened on this day, August 6th.
events:
135 – The Roman Empire imposes a siege on Beitar to suppress the Bar Kochba revolt.
1284 – Victory of the Republic of Genoa over the Republic of Pisa at the Battle of Meloria, which leads to the decline of Pisa's naval influence in the Mediterranean.
1815 – Norway and Sweden unite as one country, and this union lasts until 1905.
1825 – Bolivia declares independence from Peru.
1896 – France annexes Madagascar to its sovereignty.
(1945-The United States drops an atomic bomb named Little Boy on the Japanese town of Hiroshima, killing 80,000 people
1962 – Jamaican independence.
1966 – Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan takes over as head of government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi after a peaceful coup against his brother Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
1977 – Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin decides to impose Israeli law in the West Bank.
1990 – The United Nations imposes an economic blockade on Iraq following the invasion of Kuwait.
1991 – Iran's last prime minister before the revolution, Shapur Bakhtiar, is assassinated at his home in Paris.
1998 – Hanan Ashrawi resigns from the Palestinian government.
2008 – A military coup in Mauritania led by General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz overthrows President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallah after dismissing a number of army soldiers. The military decides to consider President Ould Cheikh Abdallah a former president and forms a state council headed by General Ould Abdel Aziz.
2009 – The Sixth Conference of the Fatah movement issues a unanimous resolution holding Israel responsible for the assassination of Palestinian National Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. Israel rejects the resolution as ridiculous.
2010 – Polish President-elect Bronisław Komorowski is sworn in to officially take office after serving in an interim capacity since April 10, following the death of President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash.
2011 – Riots break out in the British capital, London, and several British cities after a man is killed in a shootout with police.
2012 – Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Farid Hijab leaves President Bashar al-Assad's regime and seeks refuge in Jordan, and the Syrian president appoints Omar Galawanji as interim prime minister.
✴️ The Curiosity rover lands on Mars in search of life.
2013 – An explosion results from a gas leak in the Argentine city of Rosario, killing 22 people and injuring more than 60 others, in addition to causing enormous material losses.
✴️ A Yemeni military transport plane crashed in Marib governorate, killing the commander of the 107th Infantry Brigade, Brigadier General Hussein Mashaba, and ten others.
2014 – The European space probe Rosetta enters the orbit of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko ten years after its launch.
2015 – Opening of a new branch of the Suez Canal named the “New Suez Canal”, 35 km long.
✴️ A suicide bombing at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha left 17 dead and 54 injured.
2016 – The 2016 Summer Olympics open in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, with 11,000 athletes from 206 countries participating.
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Births:
1775 – Daniel O'Connell, Irish lawyer and politician.
1809 – Alfred Tennyson, English poet.
1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945.
1891 – William Slim, British soldier.
1916 – Dom Mentoff, Prime Minister of Malta.
1924 – Philippe Washing, Belgian tennis player.
** Lamia Feghali, Lebanese actress.
1929 – Mutawa Ewais, Egyptian actor.
1934 – Pierce Anthony, American writer.
1939 – Ahmed Al-Hawan, an Egyptian agent of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service.
1943 – Bassam Faraj, Iraqi cartoonist.
1952 – Radwan Al-Kashef, Egyptian film director.
1961 – Takayuki Negishi, Japanese composer.
1965 – Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer.
1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, American film director.
1972 – Geri Hallowell, English singer and former member of the Spice Girls.
1976 – Hassan Al-Otaibi, Saudi footballer
1980 – Danny Collins, English footballer.
** Tarek Sabry, Egyptian actor.
1983 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer.
1984 – Widad Ibisevic, Bosnian footballer.
1985 – Bafetimbi Gomez, French footballer.
1987 – Rémy Rioux, French football goalkeeper.
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Death:
1414 – King Ladslau I, King of the Kingdom of Naples.
1458 – Pope Callistus III, pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1637 – Ben Jonson, English writer, poet and actor.
1660 – Diego Velazquez, Spanish painter.
1911 – Florentino Amveno, Argentine scientist.
1932 – Prince Kamal al-Din Hussein, son of Sultan Hussein Kamel
1936 – Hassan bin Ibrahim Bahr Al-Ulum, Iraqi Ottoman poet.
1955 – Rose Shehfa, Lebanese women's rights activist.
1963 – Saqr Al-Shabib, Kuwaiti poet.
1969 – Theodor Adorno, German philosopher.
1978 – Pope Paul VI, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1979 – Fyodor Lennen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1964.
1989 – Mikhail Baladi, Syrian poet and novelist.
1991 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian Prime Minister.
1993 – Adnan Mari, Palestinian soldier and one of the founders of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades in the northern West Bank.
1994 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer.
1999 – Gholam Ali Raadi Azarakhshi, Iranian poet, jurist and academic.
2001 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist and journalist.
2005 – Robin Cook, British politician. Talib Al-Furati, Iraqi actor.
2006 – Hirotaka Suzuki, Japanese voice actor.
2012 – Bernard Lovell, British physicist and radio astronomer.
2018 – Sanaa Mazhar, Egyptian actress.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Independence Day in Bolivia.
⬅️ Independence Day in Jamaica.
⬅️ The feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus.
