📜 This Day in History

August 6

• 686Second Fitna: Pro-Alid forces defeated the Umayyad Caliphate at the Battle of Khazir, allowing them to take control of Mosul in present-day Iraq.
• 1892The Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company was founded in Antwerp to exploit natural rubber in the Congo Free State.
• 1945World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing about 70,000 people instantly.
• 1991British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee posted a public invitation to collaborate on a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessible via the Internet, known as the World Wide Web.
• 2008Mauritanian president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by a group of high-ranking generals that he had dismissed from office several hours earlier.
• 2013A gas leak caused an explosion that collapsed a building and led to the deaths of 22 people in Rosario, Argentina.

Born on this day

• 1809Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (died 1892)
• 1881Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
• 1928Andy Warhol, American painter, photographer and film director (died 1987)
• 1983Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer