August 6: Feast of the Transfiguration (Gregorian calendar); Independence Day in Jamaica (1962)
Meteorite fragment ALH 84001
- 1506 – Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania achieved one of the greatest Lithuanian victories against the Tatars in the Battle of Kletsk.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Oriskany, one of the bloodiest battles in the North American theater of the war, was fought about six miles (10 km) east of Fort Stanwix, New York.
- 1806 – The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved by its last emperor, Francis II, during the aftermath of the War of the Third Coalition.
- 1956 – DuMont, one of the world's first television networks, aired its last program.
- 1996 – NASA announced that the meteorite known as ALH 84001 (pictured), discovered in the Allan Hills of Antarctica, may contain evidence of life on Mars, but further tests were inconclusive.
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