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Events
1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
1506 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk.
1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1661 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
1777 – Patriot forces were ambushed on the New York frontier in what became known as the Battle of Oriskany. 800 Americans under General Nicholas Herkimer were attempting to retake British-held Fort Stanwix on Lake Ontario. A British force along with a contingent of Mohawk warriors ambushed Herkimer’s men while they were on the march, and General Herkimer was quickly wounded. Propping himself against a tree, Herkimer rallied his men despite his wounds, preventing a mass panic. Although they were forced back and unable to relieve the fort, the Patriots were not routed, and they fell back in good order. Unfortunately, General Herkimer was unable to recover from his wounds, and he died on August 16.
1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, ending the Holy Roman Empire.
1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
1824 – Battle of Junín Peru.
1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
1861 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.
1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
1901 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
1926 – In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
1940 – Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.
1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
1944 – The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
1960 – Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1960 – Chubby Checker appears on The Dick Clark Show and performs his version of "The Twist" starting a worldwide dance craze.
1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
1976 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
1988 – The Tompkins Square Park Riot in New York City spurs a reform of the NYPD, held responsible for the event.
1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1997 – Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 228 of 254 people on board.
2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
2011 – A march in protest of the death of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, London, ends in a riot, sparking off a wave of rioting throughout the country over the following four nights.
2011 – War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 38 U.S. special forces members and a working dog, making it the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Transfiguration of our Lord. Greater Double.
Commemoration of St. Xystus, Pope of Rome, and SS. Felicissimus and Agapitus, Martyrs.
Commemoration of St. Xystus, Pope of Rome, and SS. Felicissimus and Agapitus, Martyrs.
Contemporary Western
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
August 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ
(Second "Feast of the Savior" in August)[
The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ
(Second "Feast of the Savior" in August)[
Saints Justus and Pastor, two brothers, aged respectively thirteen and nine,
scourged and beheaded at Alcalá in Spain under Diocletian (c. 304)
Saint Hormisdas, Pope of Rome and Confessor,
author of the Formula of Hormisdas (523)
Saint Hardulf, a hermit at Breedon in Leicestershire in England
where the church is dedicated to him (7th century)
Saint Gezelin (Ghislain, Gisle, Joscelin), a hermit honoured in Slebusrode
(Schlebuschrath) near Cologne in Germany.
Saint Stephen of Cardeña and Companions,
Abbot of the Castilian monastery of Cardeña near Burgos in Spain,
where there were over two hundred monks, martyred by the Saracens (872)
Saint Theoctistus, Bishop of Chernigov (1123)
New Martyr Abbacum of Thessalonica (1628)
Saint Daniel Kushnir Mlievsky-Cherkasky, Martyr (1766)
Venerable Schema-Nun St Olympiada (Stryhaliv) of Kiev (1828)
New Hieromartyr Maxim Sandovich of Carpatho-Russia, priest,
protomartyr of the Lemko people, by the Latins (1914)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Prozorov, Priest (1930)
New Hieromartyr Peter Tokarev, Priest, of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1937)
New Hieromartyr Dimitry (Lyubimov), Archbishop of Gdov (1938)
Repose of Hieroschemamonk Nikon the Cave-dweller, of Valaam Monastery (1822)
Repose of Priest Basil Shoustin, disciple of Optina Elders (1968)
Repose of Elder Tryphon of Kapsala, Mt. Athos (1978)
scourged and beheaded at Alcalá in Spain under Diocletian (c. 304)
Saint Hormisdas, Pope of Rome and Confessor,
author of the Formula of Hormisdas (523)
Saint Hardulf, a hermit at Breedon in Leicestershire in England
where the church is dedicated to him (7th century)
Saint Gezelin (Ghislain, Gisle, Joscelin), a hermit honoured in Slebusrode
(Schlebuschrath) near Cologne in Germany.
Saint Stephen of Cardeña and Companions,
Abbot of the Castilian monastery of Cardeña near Burgos in Spain,
where there were over two hundred monks, martyred by the Saracens (872)
Saint Theoctistus, Bishop of Chernigov (1123)
New Martyr Abbacum of Thessalonica (1628)
Saint Daniel Kushnir Mlievsky-Cherkasky, Martyr (1766)
Venerable Schema-Nun St Olympiada (Stryhaliv) of Kiev (1828)
New Hieromartyr Maxim Sandovich of Carpatho-Russia, priest,
protomartyr of the Lemko people, by the Latins (1914)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Prozorov, Priest (1930)
New Hieromartyr Peter Tokarev, Priest, of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1937)
New Hieromartyr Dimitry (Lyubimov), Archbishop of Gdov (1938)
Repose of Hieroschemamonk Nikon the Cave-dweller, of Valaam Monastery (1822)
Repose of Priest Basil Shoustin, disciple of Optina Elders (1968)
Repose of Elder Tryphon of Kapsala, Mt. Athos (1978)
Coptic Orthodox
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