History for August 6

History for August 6 - On-This-Day.com:
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809, Sir Alexander Fleming 1881, Lucille Ball 1911 


Robert Mitchum 1917, Andy Warhol 1928, Peter Bonerz 1938 


1806 - The Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis II abdicated. 


1890 - Cy Young achieved his first major league victory. He would accumulate 511 in his career. 


1939 - Dinah Shore started her own show on the NBC Blue radio network. 


1945 - The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed. (8:16am Japanese time) 


1965 - The Voting Rights Act was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. 


1981 - Fire fighters in Indianapolis, IN, answered a false alarm. When they returned to their station it was ablaze due to a grease fire. 


1986 - William J. Schroeder died. He lived 620 days with the Jarvik-7 manmade heart. He was the world's longest surviving recipient of a permanent artificial heart. 


1990 - The U.N. Security Council ordered a worldwide trade embargo with Iraq. The embargo was to punish Iraq for invading Kuwait. 


1997 - Apple Computer and Microsoft agreed to share technology in a deal giving Microsoft a stake in Apple's survival. 


1998 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with U.S. President Clinton.