On this day...
August 6: Feast of the Transfiguration in Christianity; Independence Day in Bolivia (1825) and Jamaica (1962)
- 1538 – Spanish Conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada founded a European urban settlement in what is today Bogotá, Colombia.
- 1806 – The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved by its last emperor Francis II during the aftermath of the War of the Third Coalition.
- 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb named Little Boy (pictured) on Hiroshima, Japan, killing as many as 140,000 people.
- 1991 – British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee first posted files describing his ideas for a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessible via the Internet, to be called a "World Wide Web".
- 2008 – Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by a group of high ranking generals that he had dismissed from office several hours earlier.
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