Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation. Date: August 6, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 6 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today)

Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom. Date: August 6, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 6 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today)

US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. Date: August 6, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 6 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today)

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. Date: August 6, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 6 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today)

Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Date: August 6, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 6 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today)

Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives. Date: August 6, 1991 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 6 📅 Events on this day in 1991 📅 On This Day (Today)

Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet. Date: August 6, 1991 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 6 📅 Events on this day in 1991 📅 On This Day (Today)

NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms. Date: August 6, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 6 📅 Events on this day in 1996 📅 On This Day (Today)

Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam, killing 229 of the 254 people on board. Date: August 6, 1997 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 6 📅 Events on this day in 1997 📅 On This Day (Today)

Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu. Date: August 6, 2001 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 6 📅 Events on this day in 2001 📅 On This Day (Today)