August 6: Feast of the Transfiguration (Gregorian calendar); Independence Day in Jamaica (1962)
Crew of the Enola Gay
- 1506 – Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania achieved one of the greatest Lithuanian victories against the Tatars in the Battle of Kletsk.
- 1890 – At Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York, US, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in an electric chair.
- 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay (pictured with crew) dropped an atomic bomb named "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan, killing as many as 140,000 people.
- 1966 – Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan became emir and ruler of Abu Dhabi, succeeding his brother, Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who was deposed in a bloodless coup d'état.
- 2011 – Following the death of a Tottenham man by the Metropolitan Police of London, thousands of mostly young males rioted in several London boroughs and in cities and towns across England.
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