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August 6, 1997 Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc August 6, 1997 NHL Nashville, Tenne names Barry Trotz as its 1st coach August 6, 1996 NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars August 6, 1995 "Damn Yankees" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 510 performances August 6, 1995 Dottie Mochrie wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain August 6, 1995 Indians and Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose - Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition) August 6, 1995 Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb August 6, 1994 Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school/Universities August 6, 1993 Japan Hosokawa government begins August 6, 1993 Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical August 6, 1992 Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500 August 6, 1991 Debbie Doom (U.S.) pitches 2nd consecutive perfect game in women's softball at the Pan American Games, beats Nicaragua, 8-0 August 6, 1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats August 6, 1990 President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan August 6, 1990 U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 to place economic sanctions against Iraq August 6, 1989 "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 5959 performances August 6, 1989 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open August 6, 1989 Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8 August 6, 1989 Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia August 6, 1989 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines August 6, 1988 Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases August 6, 1988 Rich Gossage 300th career save, beats Phillies August 6, 1986 Orioles, Dwyer and Sheets, and Rangers, Harrah, hit record 3 grand slams August 6, 1986 Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM August 6, 1985 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB August 6, 1985 Major League Baseball Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day) August 6, 1985 STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad August 6, 1984 203.05 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange August 6, 1984 Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics August 6, 1983 Minnesota Vikings beat St. Louis Cardinals 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo) August 6, 1983 Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa August 6, 1982 22nd Curtis Cup: U.S., 14 -3 August 6, 1982 California Doug DeCinces hits 3 home runs again in game August 6, 1982 WQXI, Atlanta, is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system August 6, 1981 Argentina ex-president Isabel Peron freed August 6, 1981 Due to strike, Yanks, A's, Philles and Dodgers declared 1st champs August 6, 1981 NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed August 6, 1980 University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles and post-season play due to transcript and curriculum abuses August 6, 1979 61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills Mich August 6, 1979 Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel August 6, 1978 60th PGA Championship: John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont CC PA August 6, 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Europea Golf Open August 6, 1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate European Women's Golf Open August 6, 1974 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice August 6, 1974 Explosion and fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Washington August 6, 1973 Roberto Clemente and Warren Spahn inducted into Hall of Fame August 6, 1973 Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma August 6, 1972 Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament August 6, 1972 Hank Aaron hits 660th and 661st home runs for Braves, record for 1 team August 6, 1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Knoxville Ladies Golf Classic August 6, 1970 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island August 6, 1969 Baltimore Orioles pull their 3rd triple play, 5-4-3 vs Kansas City Royals August 6, 1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open August 6, 1967 Minnesota Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings August 6, 1967 Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play August 6, 1967 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Pro comperto sane August 6, 1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London August 6, 1966 Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title August 6, 1966 Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe) August 6, 1966 U.S. citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam August 6, 1965 32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000) August 6, 1965 Beatles release "Help" album in U.K. August 6, 1965 Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights August 6, 1965 Indian troops invade Pakistan August 6, 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks August 6, 1964 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam August 6, 1962 Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule August 6, 1961 Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits) August 6, 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open August 6, 1961 1st case of motion sickness in space reported August 6, 1960 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto August 6, 1958 Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles August 6, 1958 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island August 6, 1954 WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting August 6, 1953 Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military August 6, 1952 Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout August 6, 1951 Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria August 6, 1949 Luke Appling record of 2,154 (en route to 2,218) games at shortstop August 6, 1948 Bob Mathias, U.S., wins decathlon at London Olympics August 6, 1948 Dreesgovt (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) forms August 6, 1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics August 6, 1947 1st performance of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 8" August 6, 1946 U.S. officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court August 6, 1945 Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay" August 6, 1945 Keith Miller scores 110 in the 4 Victory Test Cricket at Lord's August 6, 1944 All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died August 6, 1944 Anti-German attack at Avranches fails August 6, 1944 Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins August 6, 1944 U.S. 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes August 6, 1943 U.S. 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily August 6, 1942 Riots by Dutch Jews August 6, 1942 Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210 August 6, 1942 Churchill fires Gen Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant August 6, 1942 Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder" August 6, 1941 Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning August 6, 1940 Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire August 6, 1939 1st broadcast of "Dinah Shore Show" on NBC-radio August 6, 1937 Franco-artillery fire on Madrid August 6, 1937 Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest August 6, 1937 U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign trade treaty August 6, 1936 1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson and Rabbit Warstler of Boston Bees-lead off with HRs August 6, 1934 U.S. troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915 August 6, 1930 Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in New York City August 6, 1930 Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen August 6, 1926 New York's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel August 6, 1926 Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system August 6, 1926 Don Juan with John Barrymore shown August 6, 1921 Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins August 6, 1919 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler) August 6, 1919 Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest August 6, 1918 Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France August 6, 1918 In WW I 2nd battle of the Marne ends August 6, 1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia and Serbia August 6, 1914 French cavalry enter Belgium August 6, 1914 German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed August 6, 1914 Serbia declares war against Germany August 6, 1910 New York City Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt August 6, 1908 St. Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn August 6, 1905 26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record) August 6, 1896 France annexes Madagascar August 6, 1890 Cy Young pitches and wins 1st game August 6, 1890 Denton True "Cy" Young pitched his 1st major league baseball game August 6, 1870 Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France August 6, 1870 White conservatives suppresed black vote and captured Tenn legislature August 6, 1864 Rebels evacuate Ft. Powell, Mobile Bayd August 6, 1862 Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack August 6, 1861 Lexington KY-Union milt camp forms in neutral state August 6, 1854 Congress passes Confiscation Act August 6, 1825 Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day) August 6, 1824 Battle at Junan - Simon Bolivars army beats Spanish August 6, 1821 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels August 6, 1815 U.S. flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli August 6, 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia begans debate August 6, 1774 Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY August 6, 1726 Emperor Karel VI and tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty August 6, 1675 Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut August 6, 1661 Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders August 6, 1625 Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen August 6, 1623 Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII August 6, 1601 Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius August 6, 1600 Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588 August 6, 1588 Spanish Armada under Medina Sidonia anchors August 6, 1497 John Cabot returns to Bristol from North-America August 6, 1181 Supernova observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers August 6, 939 Battle at Simancas-Spain beats Moors August 6, 768 [Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope August 6, 523 St. Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope August 6, 258 St. Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope |