1914<\/strong> – Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia. Serbia declared war against Germany.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> – Gertrude Ederle became the first American woman to swim the English Channel. She was 19 years old at the time. The swim took her 14 1\/2 hours.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> – Warner Brothers premiered its Vitaphone system in New York. The movie was “Don Juan,” starring John Barrymore.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – Dinah Shore started her own show on the NBC Blue radio network.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – The American B-29 bomber, known as the\u00a0Enola Gay<\/i>, 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. (8:16 am Japanese time)<\/p>\n 1949<\/strong> – Chicago White Sox player Luke Appling played in the 2,154th game of his 19-year, major league career.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – Satchel Paige, at age 46, became the oldest pitcher to complete a major league baseball game.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – Nationalization of U.S. and foreign-owned property in Cuba began.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – Jamaica became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – The Voting Rights Act was signed by\u00a0U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.<\/p>\n 1969<\/strong> – The first fair ball to be hit completely out of Dodger Stadium occurred. Willie “Pops” Stargell, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, hit the ball 506 feet from home plate.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – Firefighters in Indianapolis, IN, answered a false alarm. When they returned to their station it was ablaze due to a grease fire.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – Lee Trevino was disqualified from the PGA Championship in Duluth, GA when he had his scorecard signed by Tom Weiskopf instead of himself.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – The 40th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing brought tens of thousands of Japanese and foreigners to Hiroshima.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Timothy Dalton became the fourth actor to be named “James Bond.”<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – Jaime Paz Zamora was inaugurated as the president of Bolivia.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The U.N. Security Council ordered a worldwide trade embargo with Iraq. The embargo was to punish Iraq for invading Kuwait.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – The U.S. Senate confirmed Louis Freeh to be the director of the FBI.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – Morihiro Hosokawa was elected prime minister of Japan.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – Thousands of glowing lanterns were set afloat in rivers in Hiroshima, Japan, on the 50th anniversary of the first atomic bombing.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – NASA announced the discovery of evidence of primitive life on Mars. The evidence came in the form of a meteorite that was found in Antarctica. The meteorite was believed to have come from Mars and contained a fossil.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Apple Computer and Microsoft agreed to share technology in a deal giving Microsoft a stake in Apple’s survival.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1\/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with\u00a0U.S. President Clinton.<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong> – The Mars rover Curiosity landed on the floor of Gale Crater. The Mars Science Laboratory\/Curiosity spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, on November 26, 2011.<\/p>\n History of 6 August 1914 – Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia. Serbia declared war against Germany. 1926 – Gertrude Ederle became the first American woman to swim the English Channel. She was 19 years old at the time. 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