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538 relations: A. G. Kripal Singh, Abbey Lincoln, Abha, Accession day, Acute radiation syndrome, Adhar Kumar Chatterji, Adoniran Barbosa, Alexander Fleming, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Allan Hills 84001, Allan Holdsworth, Allies of World War I, Alvin Williams, American Civil War, American Revolutionary War, Ananda W. P. Guruge, André Weil, Andy Warhol, Angelos Kitsos, Anna Haining Bates, Anna Maria Rubatto, Antoine Arnauld, Anya Krugovoy Silver, Associated Press, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Auburn Correctional Facility, August 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), Austrian Empire, Ádám Mányoki, Baden Powell (guitarist), Bafétimbi Gomis, Barbara Cooney, Barbara Strozzi, Barbara Windsor, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Battle of Junín, Battle of Mărășești, Battle of Meloria (1284), Battle of Oriskany, Battle of Sari Bair, Battle of Spicheren, Battle of Wörth, Ben Jonson, Bernard Lovell, Bert Yancey, Betty Allan, Betty Cuthbert, Bill Emmott, Billy Boston, ... Expand index (488 more) »
A. G. Kripal Singh
Amritsar Govindsingh Kripal Singh (6 August 1933 – 22 July 1987) was an Indian Test cricketer.
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Abbey Lincoln
Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist.
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Abha
Abha (أَبْهَا) is the capital of 'Asir Region in Saudi Arabia.
Accession day
An accession day is usually the anniversary of the date on which a monarch or executive takes office.
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Acute radiation syndrome
Acute radiation syndrome (ARS), also known as radiation sickness or radiation poisoning, is a collection of health effects that are caused by being exposed to high amounts of ionizing radiation in a short period of time.
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Adhar Kumar Chatterji
Admiral Adhar Kumar Chatterji (4 March 1914 – 6 August 2001) was an Admiral in the Indian Navy.
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Adoniran Barbosa
Adoniran Barbosa, artistic name of João Rubinato (6 August 1910 – 23 November 1982), was a noted Brazilian São Paulo style samba singer and composer.
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Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin.
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Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Alfred (Alfred Ernest Albert; 6 August 184430 July 1900) was sovereign Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 22 August 1893 until his death in 1900.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet.
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Allan Hills 84001
Allan Hills 84001 (ALH84001) is a fragment of a Martian meteorite that was found in the Allan Hills in Antarctica on December 27, 1984, by a team of American meteorite hunters from the ANSMET project.
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Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth (6 August 1946 – 15 April 2017) was a British jazz fusion and progressive rock guitarist, violinist and composer.
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Allies of World War I
The Allies, the Entente or the Triple Entente was an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918).
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Alvin Williams
Alvin Leon Williams Jr. (born August 6, 1974) is an American former professional basketball player who played for Villanova University and in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1997 to 2007.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
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American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
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Ananda W. P. Guruge
Ananda Wahihana Palliya Guruge (28 December 1928 – 6 August 2014), known as Ananda W. P. Guruge, was a Sri Lankan diplomat, Buddhist scholar and writer.
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André Weil
André Weil (6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998) was a French mathematician, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry.
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.
Angelos Kitsos
Angelos Kitsos (Άγγελος Κίτσος; 1934 – 6 August 2008) was the president of Rizarios Foundation (Ριζάρειο Ίδρυμα).He was a Greek from Monodendri, Zagori.
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Anna Haining Bates
Anna Haining Bates (née Swan; August 6, 1846 – August 5, 1888) was a Canadian woman notable for her great stature of.
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Anna Maria Rubatto
Anna Maria Rubatto (14 February 1844, Carmagnola – 6 August 1904, Montevideo) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun who assumed the name Maria Francesca of Jesus.
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Antoine Arnauld
Antoine Arnauld (6 February 16128 August 1694) was a French Catholic theologian, philosopher and mathematician.
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Anya Krugovoy Silver
Anya Krugovoy Silver (December 22, 1968 – August 6, 2018) was an American poet.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Auburn Correctional Facility
Auburn Correctional Facility is a state prison on State Street in Auburn, New York, United States.
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August 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
August 5 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 7 All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 19 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
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Austrian Empire
The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a multinational European great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs.
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Ádám Mányoki
Ádám Mányoki (1673, Szokolya – 6 August 1757, Dresden) was a Hungarian Baroque portrait painter.
Baden Powell (guitarist)
Baden Powell de Aquino (6 August 1937 – 26 September 2000), known professionally as Baden Powell, was a Brazilian guitarist.
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Bafétimbi Gomis
Bafétimbi Gomis (born 6 August 1985) is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for J1 League club Kawasaki Frontale.
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Barbara Cooney
Barbara Cooney (August 6, 1917 – March 10, 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of 110 children's books, published for over sixty years.
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Barbara Strozzi
Barbara Strozzi (also called Barbara Valle; baptised 6 August 1619 – 11 November 1677) was an Italian composer and singer of the Baroque Period.
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Barbara Windsor
Dame Barbara Windsor (born Barbara Ann Deeks; 6 August 193710 December 2020) was an English actress, known for her roles in the ''Carry On'' films and for playing Peggy Mitchell in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders.
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge (French: Baton Rouge or Bâton-Rouge,; Batonrouj) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Battle of Junín
The Battle of Junín was a military engagement of the Peruvian War of Independence, fought in the highlands of the Junín Region on 6 August 1824.
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Battle of Mărășești
The Battle of Mărășești (6 August 1917 – 3 September 1917) was the last major battle fought by the Central Powers against the Kingdom of Romania and Russia on the Romanian front during World War I. Romania was mostly occupied by the Central Powers, but the Battle of Mărășești kept the northern region of the country free from occupation.
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Battle of Meloria (1284)
The Battle of Meloria was fought near the islet of Meloria in the Ligurian Sea on 5 and 6 August 1284 between the fleets of the Republics of Genoa and Pisa as part of the Genoese-Pisan War.
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Battle of Oriskany
The Battle of Oriskany was a significant engagement of the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolutionary War, and one of the bloodiest battles in the conflict between Patriot forces and those loyal to Great Britain.
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Battle of Sari Bair
The Battle of Sari Bair (Sarı Bayır Harekâtı), also known as the August Offensive (Ağustos Taarruzları), represented the final attempt made by the British in August 1915 to seize control of the Gallipoli peninsula from the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.
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Battle of Spicheren
The Battle of Spicheren, also known as the Battle of Forbach, was a battle during the Franco-Prussian War.
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Battle of Wörth
The Battle of Wörth, also known as the Battle of Reichshoffen or as the Battle of Frœschwiller, refers to the second battle of Wörth, which took place on 6 August 1870 in the opening stages of the Franco-Prussian War (the first Battle of Wörth occurred on 23 December 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars).
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Ben Jonson
Benjamin Jonson was an English playwright and poet.
Bernard Lovell
Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell (31 August 19136 August 2012) was an English physicist and radio astronomer.
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Bert Yancey
Albert Winsborough Yancey (August 6, 1938 – August 26, 1994) was an American professional golfer who won seven times on the PGA Tour and later played on the Senior PGA Tour.
Betty Allan
Frances Elizabeth Allan (11 July 1905 – 6 August 1952) was an Australian statistician.
Betty Cuthbert
Elizabeth Alyse Cuthbert (20 April 1938 – 6 August 2017), was an Australian athlete and a four-time Olympic champion.
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Bill Emmott
William John Emmott (born 6 August 1956) is an English journalist, author, and consultant best known as the editor-in-chief of The Economist newspaper from 1993 to 2006.
Billy Boston
William John Boston, MBE (born 6 August 1934) is a Welsh former professional rugby league footballer who played as a or.
Biostatistics
Biostatistics (also known as biometry) is a branch of statistics that applies statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology.
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Bix Beiderbecke
Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer.
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Bob Horner
James Robert Horner (born August 6, 1957) is an American former professional baseball third baseman and first baseman who played ten seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily with the Atlanta Braves.
Bobby Petta
Alfred Manuel "Bobby" Petta (born 6 August 1974) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a left winger.
Boeing B-29 Superfortress
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is an American four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War.
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Bogotá
Bogotá (also), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá during the Spanish Colonial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital and largest city of Colombia, and one of the largest cities in the world.
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky (Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький, Polish: Bohdan Chmielnicki; 15956 August 1657) was a Ruthenian nobleman and military commander of Ukrainian Cossacks as Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, which was then under the suzerainty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.
Bolivian Declaration of Independence
Bolivia's independence was definitively proclaimed on 6 August 1825 at a congress held in Chuquisaca.
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Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena
Boxing from St.
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Bulstrode Whitelocke
Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke (6 August 1605 – 28 July 1675) was an English lawyer, writer, parliamentarian and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England.
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Byard Lancaster
Byard Lancaster (August 6, 1942 – August 23, 2012) was an avant-garde jazz saxophonist and flutist.
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Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.
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Cat
The cat (Felis catus), commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal.
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Catherine Hicks
Catherine Mary Hicks (born August 6, 1951) is an American retired actress.
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Cecil Howard Green
Cecil Howard Green (August 6, 1900 – April 11, 2003) was a British-born American geophysicist, electrical engineer, and electronics manufacturing executive, who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Cedric Hardwicke
Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke (19 February 1893 – 6 August 1964) was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly 50 years.
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Chalmers Johnson
Chalmers Ashby Johnson (August 6, 1931 – November 20, 2010) was an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics, and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego.
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Charles Crichton
Charles Ainslie Crichton (6 August 1910 – 14 September 1999) was an English film director and editor.
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Charles Fort
Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena.
Charles Ingram
Charles William Ingram (born 6 August 1963) is an English fraudster, novelist and former British Army major who gained fame for his appearance on the ITV television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? In episodes recorded in September 2001, Ingram correctly answered fifteen questions to win the show's maximum prize of £1 million, becoming the third recorded contestant to ever do so.
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Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles VII (6 August 1697 – 20 January 1745) was Prince-Elector of Bavaria from 26 February 1726 and Holy Roman Emperor from 24 January 1742 to his death.
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Charles Wood (playwright)
Charles Gerald Wood (6 August 1932 – 1 February 2020) was an English playwright and scriptwriter for radio, television, and film.
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Charlie Haden
Charles Edward Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than fifty years.
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Chris Bonington
Sir Christian John Storey Bonington, CVO, CBE, DL (born 6 August 1934) is a British mountaineer.
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Classical archaeology
Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
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Claude de Forbin
Claude, comte de Forbin-Gardanne (6 August 1656 – 4 March 1733) was a French Navy officer, nobleman and diplomat.
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Clem Labine
Clement Walter Labine (August 6, 1926 – March 2, 2007) was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) best known for his years with the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1950 to 1960.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
Communist Party of Chile
The Communist Party of Chile (Partido Comunista de Chile, italics) is a communist party in Chile.
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Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.
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Constance Georgina Adams
Constance Georgina Adams (6 August 1883 – 21 June 1968), also known as Constance Georgina Tardrew, was a South African housewife and collector of botanical specimens.
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Constance Heaven
Constance Christina Aimee Heaven (née Fecher; 6 August 1911 – 12 April 1995) was a British writer of romance novels, under her maiden name, her married name and under the pseudonym Christina Merlin.
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Constitution of the United States
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States.
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Constitutional Convention (United States)
The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787.
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Creme Puff (cat)
Creme Puff (August 3, 1967 – August 6, 2005) was a mixed tabby domestic cat, owned by Jake Perry of Austin, Texas.
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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.
Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution (Revolución cubana) was the military and political effort to overthrow Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship which reigned as the government of Cuba between 1952 and 1959.
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Curiosity (rover)
Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission.
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Dale Ellis
Dale Ellis (born August 6, 1960) is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Dan Roundfield
Danny Thomas Roundfield (May 26, 1953 – August 6, 2012) was an American professional basketball player.
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Dan Walker (politician)
Daniel J. Walker (August 6, 1922 – April 29, 2015) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician from Illinois.
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Daniel O'Connell
Daniel(I) O’Connell (Dónall Ó Conaill; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century.
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Darren Daulton
Darren Arthur Daulton (January 3, 1962 – August 6, 2017), nicknamed "Dutch", was an American professional baseball catcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies (–) and Florida Marlins (1997).
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Daryl Somers
Daryl Paul Somers (né Schulz; 6 August 1951) is an Australian television personality and musician, and a triple Gold Logie award-winner.
David McLetchie
David William McLetchie CBE (6 August 1952 – 12 August 2013) was a Scottish politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party from 1999 to 2005.
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David Robinson
David Maurice Robinson (born August 6, 1965) is an American former professional basketball player who played for the San Antonio Spurs in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1989 to 2003, and minority owner of the Spurs.
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Dayton Daily News
The Dayton Daily News (DDN) is a daily newspaper published in Dayton, Ohio.
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Debrett's People of Today
Debrett's People of Today was a reference work published by Debrett's containing biographical details of approximately 25,000 notable people from across the spectrum of British society, a rival to the longer-established Who's Who.
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Detroit Free Press
The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, US.
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Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle
Dame Diana Cicely Keppel, Countess of Albemarle (née Grove, 6 August 1909 – 6 May 2013) married Walter Egerton George Lucian Keppel, son of Arnold Allen Cecil Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle, as his second wife on 24 February 1931 at St Columba's Church, London.
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Diána Póth
Diána Póth (born 6 August 1981) is a Hungarian former competitive figure skater.
Diego Velázquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Knight of the Order of Santiago (baptized 6 June 15996 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age.
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Dino Bravo
Adolfo Bresciano (August 6, 1948 – March 10, 1993) was an Italian-Canadian professional wrestler and promoter, better known by the ring name Dino Bravo.
Dom Mintoff
Dominic Mintoff (Duminku Mintoff,; often called il-Perit, "the Architect"; 6 August 1916 – 20 August 2012) was a Maltese socialist politician, architect, and civil engineer who was leader of the Labour Party from 1949 to 1984, and was 8th Prime Minister of Malta from 1955 to 1958, when Malta was still a British colony, and again, following independence, from 1971 to 1984.
Domenico Modugno
Domenico Modugno (9 January 1928 – 6 August 1994) was an Italian singer, actor and, later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament.
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Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers (Ordo Prædicatorum; abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian-French priest named Dominic de Guzmán.
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Donald Justice
Donald Rodney Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American teacher of writing and poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980.
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Dorian Harewood
Dorian Harewood (born August 6, 1950) is an American actor, best known for playing Jesse Owens in The Jesse Owens Story (1984), Det.
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Dorothy Tutin
Dame Dorothy Tutin, (8 April 19306 August 2001) was an English actress of stage, film and television.
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Dudley Benjafield
Joseph Dudley "Benjy" Benjafield, MD (6 August 1887 – 20 January 1957) was a British medical doctor and racing driver.
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DuMont Television Network
The DuMont Television Network (also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont Television, simply DuMont/Du Mont, or (incorrectly) Dumont) was one of America's pioneer commercial television networks, rivaling NBC and CBS for the distinction of being first overall in the United States.
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Dutch Republic
The United Provinces of the Netherlands, officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) and commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.
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Dutch Schultz
Dutch Schultz (born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer; August 6, 1901October 24, 1935) was an American mobster based in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Economic sanctions
Economic sanctions are commercial and financial penalties applied by states or institutions against states, groups, or individuals.
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Edsger W. Dijkstra
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software engineer, mathematician, and science essayist.
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Eduard Hanslick
Eduard Hanslick (11 September 18256 August 1904) was an Austrian music critic, aesthetician and historian.
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Edward Ballantine
Edward Ballantine (August 6, 1886 – July 2, 1971), was an American composer and professor of music.
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Edward Durell Stone
Edward Durell Stone (March 9, 1902 – August 6, 1978) was an American architect known for the formal, highly decorative buildings he designed in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Edward Walsh (poet)
Edward Walsh (1805 – 6 August 1850) was an Irish poet, the son of a sergeant in the Cork militia, and was born in Derry City, where his father's regiment had been sent for training.
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Egil Kapstad
Egil Kapstad (6 August 1940 – 13 July 2017) was a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer and arranger.
Electric chair
The electric chair is a specialized device used for capital punishment through electrocution.
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Elisabeth Beresford
Elisabeth Beresford, MBE (6 August 1926 – 24 December 2010), also known as Liza Beresford, was an English author of children's books, best known for creating The Wombles.
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Ella Raines
Ella Wallace Raines (August 6, 1920 – May 30, 1988) was an American film and television actress active from the early 1940s through the mid-1950s.
Elliott Smith
Steven Paul Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003), known as Elliott Smith, was an American musician and singer-songwriter.
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Emilio Fernández
Emilio "El Indio" Fernández Romo (26 March 1904 – 6 August 1986) was a Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter.
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Emperor Go-Toba
was the 82nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
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English Channel
The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.
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Enola Gay
The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.
Erwadi
Erwadi is a village in Ramanathapuram District, Tamil Nadu.
Erwadi fire incident
The 2001 Erwadi fire incident was an incident that occurred on 6 August 2001, when 28 inmates of a faith-based mental asylum died in the fire.
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Estonia
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.
Ever Carradine
Ever Dawn Carradine (born August 6, 1974) is an American actress.
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Fakhr al-Din II
Fakhr al-Din Ma'n (Fakhr al-Dīn Maʿn; March or April 1635), commonly known as Fakhr al-Din II or Fakhreddine II (Fakhr al-Dīn al-Thānī), was the paramount Druze emir of Mount Lebanon from the Ma'n dynasty, an Ottoman governor of Sidon-Beirut and Safed, and the strongman over much of the Levant from the 1620s to 1633.
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Fe del Mundo
Fe Villanueva del Mundo,, (born Fé Primitiva del Mundo y Villanueva; 27 November 1911 – 6 August 2011) was a Filipino pediatrician.
Feodor Lynen
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen (6 April 1911 – 6 August 1979) was a German biochemist.
Forbes Burnham
Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham (20 February 1923 – 6 August 1985) was a Guyanese politician and the leader of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana from 1964 until his death in 1985.
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Foreign Secretary
The secretary of state for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs, also known as the foreign secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
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Fortunato Baldelli
Fortunato Baldelli (6 August 1935 – 20 September 2012) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was appointed a cardinal in 2010 after a career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1966 to 2009 that included ten years as Apostolic Nuncio to France.
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François de Harlay de Champvallon
François de Harlay de Champvallon (François III de Harlay; 14 August 1625 – 6 August 1695) was the fifth Archbishop of Paris.
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François Fénelon
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, PSS, more commonly known as François Fénelon (6 August 1651 – 7 January 1715), was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer.
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Francesco Bellotti
Francesco Bellotti (born 6 August 1979 in Bussolengo) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI ProTour team.
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Francesco I Gattilusio
Francesco I Gattilusio (died 6 August 1384) was the first member of the Gattilusio family to rule the Aegean island of Lesbos as a vassal of the Byzantine emperor.
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Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
Francis II and I (Franz II.; 12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor as Francis II from 1792 to 1806, and the first Emperor of Austria as Francis I from 1804 to 1835.
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Franco-Prussian War
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.
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Frank Finlay
Francis Finlay, (6 August 1926 – 30 January 2016) was an English actor.
Frank Nicklin
Sir George Francis Reuben Nicklin, (6 August 1895 – 29 January 1978) was an Australian politician.
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Freddie Laker
Sir Frederick Alfred Laker (6 August 1922 – 9 February 2006) was an English airline entrepreneur, best known for founding Laker Airways in 1966, which went bankrupt in 1982.
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Fulgencio Batista
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (born Rubén Zaldívar; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and as a military dictator from 1952 until his overthrow in the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
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Garrett Weber-Gale
Garrett Weber-Gale (born August 6, 1985) is an American competition swimmer, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and world record-holder in two events.
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Georg Wilhelm Richmann
Georg Wilhelm Richmann (–) was a Russian physicist of Baltic German origin.
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George Kenney
George Churchill Kenney (August 6, 1889 – August 9, 1977) was a United States Army general during World War II.
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George Waterhouse (politician)
George Marsden Waterhouse (6 April 1824 – 6 August 1906) was a Premier of South Australia from 8 October 1861 until 3 July 1863 and the seventh premier of New Zealand from 11 October 1872 to 3 March 1873.
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Geri Halliwell
Geraldine Estelle Halliwell-Horner (née Halliwell; born 6 August 1972) is an English singer, songwriter, television personality, author, and actress.
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Gertrude Ederle
Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1905 – November 30, 2003) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in five events.
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Girolamo Fracastoro
Girolamo Fracastoro (Hieronymus Fracastorius; c. 1476/86 August 1553) was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy.
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Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada y Rivera, also spelled as Ximénez and De Quezada, (1509 – 16 February 1579) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador in northern South America, territories currently known as Colombia.
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Gordon Freeth
Sir Gordon Freeth, KBE (6 August 191427 November 2001) was an Australian politician and diplomat.
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Governor General of Canada
The governor general of Canada (gouverneure générale du Canada) is the federal representative of the.
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Governor of California
The governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California.
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Governor of Illinois
The governor of Illinois is the head of state and head of government of Illinois, and the various agencies and departments over which the officer has jurisdiction, as prescribed in the state constitution.
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Governor of New Jersey
The governor of New Jersey is the head of government of the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Governor-General of Australia
The governor-general of Australia is the representative of the monarch of Australia, currently King Charles III.
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Gregor Piatigorsky
Gregor Piatigorsky (Grigoriy Pavlovich Pyatigorskiy; August 6, 1976) was a Russian Empire-born American cellist.
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Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (12January 1925) was an Italian mathematician.
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Guam
Guam (Guåhan) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean.
Gulf War
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.
Hans Moser (actor)
Hans Moser (6 August 1880 – 19 June 1964) was an Austrian actor who, during his long career, from the 1920s up to his death, mainly played in comedy films.
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Harry Reasoner
Harry Reasoner (April 17, 1923 – August 6, 1991) was an American journalist for CBS and ABC News, known for his adroit use of language as a television commentator and as one of the original hosts of the news magazine 60 Minutes (1968–1970, 1978–1991).
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Head of the Republic of Dagestan
The Head of the Republic of Dagestan is the highest official and the head of the executive power of the Republic of Dagestan.
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Helen Jacobs
Helen Hull Jacobs (August 6, 1908 – June 2, 1997) was an American tennis player who won nine Grand Slam titles.
Heligoland
Heligoland (Helgoland,; Heligolandic Frisian: deät Lun,, Mooring Frisian: Hålilönj, Helgoland) is a small archipelago in the North Sea.
Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst
Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst (20 May 17146 August 1794), known as The Lord Apsley from 1771 to 1775, was a British lawyer and politician.
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Henry Iba
Henry Payne “Hank” Iba (August 6, 1904 – January 15, 1993) was an American basketball coach and college athletics administrator.
Henry the Lion
Henry the Lion (Heinrich der Löwe; 1129/1131 – 6 August 1195), also known as Henry III, Duke of Saxony (ruled 1142-1180) and Henry XII, Duke of Bavaria (ruled 1156-1180), was a member of the Welf dynasty.
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Herb Moford
Herbert Moford (August 6, 1928 – December 3, 2005) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals (1955), Detroit Tigers (1958), Boston Red Sox (1959) and New York Mets (1962).
Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host
The Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host (Гетьман Війська Запорозького, Cosaccorum Zaporoviesium Supremus Belli Dux) was the head of state of the Cossack Hetmanate.
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Hiram Johnson
Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866August 6, 1945) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 23rd governor of California from 1911 to 1917.
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Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony is an annual Japanese vigil.
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Hjalmar Kiærskou
Hjalmar Frederik Christian Kiærskou (6 August 1835 in Copenhagen – 18 March 1900), sometimes also stated as Hjalmar Kiaerskov, was a Danish botanist.
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House of Representatives (Japan)
The is the lower house of the National Diet of Japan.
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Howard Hodgkin
Sir Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker.
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Hunter Greene (baseball)
Christian Hunter Greene (born August 6, 1999) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB).
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Inday Badiday
Maria Lourdes Jimenez Carvajal (August 6, 1944 – September 26, 2003), popularly known as Inday Badiday, was a Filipino TV host and journalist who was known as Philippine television's "queen of showbiz talk shows" and "queen of intrigues".
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Independence Day (Jamaica)
The Independence Day of Jamaica is a national holiday celebrated in Jamaica.
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Indian reservation
An American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is autonomous, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S.
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Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
Ira C. Eaker
General (Honorary) Ira Clarence Eaker (April 13, 1896 – August 6, 1987) was a general of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
Ironclad warship
An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship protected by steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s.
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Jack de Gier
Jack de Gier (born 6 August 1968) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who played as a forward.
Jacopo Sannazaro
Jacopo Sannazaro (28 July 1458 – 6 August 1530) was an Italian poet, humanist, member and head of the Accademia Pontaniana from Naples.
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Jacques Soustelle
Jacques Soustelle (3 February 1912 – 6 August 1990) was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces, a politician who served in the French National Assembly and at one time served as Governor General of Algeria, an anthropologist specializing in Pre-Columbian civilizations, and vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1939.
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Jaime Correa (footballer)
Jaime Correa Córdova (born 6 August 1979) also known as "El Alacran" (the scorpion) or "El Motor" (the motor), is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).
James A. Bayard (politician, born 1767)
James Asheton Bayard Sr. (July 28, 1767 – August 6, 1815) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware.
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James Henry Greathead
James Henry Greathead (6 August 1844 – 21 October 1896) was an English mechanical and civil engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railways, Winchester Cathedral, and Liverpool overhead railway, as well as being one of the earliest proponents of the English Channel, Irish Sea and Bristol Channel tunnels.
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James S. White
James Springer White (August 4, 1821 – August 6, 1881), also known as Elder White, was a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and husband of Ellen G. White.
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Jammu and Kashmir (state)
Jammu and Kashmir was a region formerly administered by India as a state from 1952 to 2019, constituting the southern and southeastern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India, Pakistan and China since the mid-20th century.
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Jason Crump
Jason Philip Crump (born 6 August 1975) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider from Australia (UK born).
Jason O'Mara
Jason O'Mara (born 6 August 1972) is an Irish-American actor.
János Rózsás
János Rózsás (6 August 1926 – 2 November 2012) was a Hungarian writer.
Jean Dessès
Jean Dessès (6 August 1904 – 2 August 1970) was a world leading fashion designer in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Jean-Baptiste Bessières
Jean-Baptiste Bessières, 1st duc d'Istrie (6 August 1768 – 1 May 1813) was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
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Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel
Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel (11 May 1811, Geneva – 6 August 1893) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1864–1872).
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Jennie Lozier
Jeanne de la Montagnie Lozier (c. 1841 – August 6, 1915) was an American physician and educator from New York City.
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Jerry Wolman
Jerry Wolman (February 14, 1927 – August 6, 2013) was an American developer in Washington, D.C. and owned the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League in the 1960s.
Jess Collins
Jess Collins (August 6, 1923 – January 2, 2004), simply known today as Jess, was an American visual artist.
Jesse Ryder
Jesse Daniel Ryder (born 6 August 1984) is a former international New Zealand cricketer, who played all forms of the game.
Jiao Liuyang
Jiao Liuyang (born August 6, 1991) is a Chinese swimmer, who specializes in the 200-metre butterfly.
Jim McGreevey
James Edward McGreevey (born August 6, 1957) is an American politician who served as the 52nd governor of New Jersey from 2002 until his resignation in 2004.
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Jimmy Nielsen
Jimmy Nielsen (born 6 August 1977) is a Danish retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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Joël Robuchon
Joël Robuchon (7 April 1945 – 6 August 2018) was a French chef and restaurateur.
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Johann Bernoulli
Johann Bernoulli (also known as Jean in French or John in English; – 1 January 1748) was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.
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Johannes Junius
Johannes Junius (1573 – 6 August 1628) was the mayor (German: Bürgermeister) of Bamberg, and a victim of the Bamberg witch trials, who wrote a letter to his daughter from jail while he awaited execution for witchcraft.
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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (officially known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was named in 1964 as a memorial to assassinated President John F.
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John Graves (author)
John Alexander Graves III (August 6, 1920 – July 31, 2013) was an American writer known for his book Goodbye to a River.
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John Hughes (filmmaker)
John Wilden Hughes Jr. (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
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John Mason Neale
John Mason Neale (24 January 1818 – 6 August 1866) was an English Anglican priest, scholar, and hymnwriter.
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John Middleton Murry
John Middleton Murry (6 August 1889 – 12 March 1957) was an English writer.
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John Snell
Sir John Snell (1629 – 6 August 1679), founder of the Snell Exhibitions at the University of Oxford, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of a blacksmith.
John Woodland Hastings
John Woodland "Woody" Hastings, (March 24, 1927 – August 6, 2014) was a leader in the field of photobiology, especially bioluminescence, and was one of the founders of the field of circadian biology (the study of circadian rhythms, or the sleep-wake cycle).
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Jon Postel
Jonathan Bruce Postel (August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998) was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards.
Jorge Amado
Jorge Amado (10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school.
Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg
Count Josias I of Waldeck-Eisenberg (Josias I.; 18 March 1554 – 6 August 1588) was a German nobleman who was Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg from 1578 until his death.
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Joyce Sims
Joyce Elizabeth Sims-Sandiford (August 6, 1959 – October 13, 2022) was an American singer and songwriter, whose biggest hit single, "Come into My Life", reached the top 10 in both the US ''Billboard'' R&B Chart and the UK Singles Chart in 1987.
Julie Snyder
Julie Snyder (born 6 August, 1967) is a Francophone Canadian talk show host and producer, appearing as host or guest on various television programs in Canada and France.
Julius Baker
Julius Baker (September 23, 1915 – August 6, 2003) was one of the foremost American orchestral flute players.
Justus and Pastor
Justus and Pastor (Iustus et Pastor; died 304), venerated as Christian martyrs, were two schoolboy brothers (Justus was 13 years old, Pastor less than 9) who were killed for their faith during the Diocletian persecutions.
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Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo
Olukemi "Kemi" Omololu-Olunloyo (born 6 August 1964) is a self-acclaimed Nigerian journalist, blogger, and activist against gun violence, and a social media personality.
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Kevin Mitnick
Kevin David Mitnick (August 6, 1963 – July 16, 2023) was an American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker.
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Killing of JonBenét Ramsey
JonBenét Patricia Ramsey (August 6, 1990 – December 25, 1996) was an American child beauty queen who was killed at the age of six in her family's home at 755 15th Street in Boulder, Colorado.
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Kiowa
Kiowa or Cáuigú) people are a Native American tribe and an Indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in the 17th and 18th centuries,Pritzker 326 and eventually into the Southern Plains by the early 19th century.
Klaus Nomi
Klaus Sperber (January 24, 1944 – August 6, 1983), known professionally as Klaus Nomi, was a German countertenor noted for his wide vocal range and an unusual, otherworldly stage persona.
Konstantin von Benckendorff
Konstantin von Benckendorff (Константи́н Христофо́рович Бенкендо́рф, Konstantin Khristoforovich Benkendorf; 31 January 1785 – 6 August 1828) was a Baltic German general and diplomat.
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Korean Air Flight 801
Korean Air Flight 801 (KE801, KAL801) was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Korean Air, from Gimpo International Airport, Seoul to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, Guam.
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Kraków Uprising (1944)
The Kraków Uprising was a planned but never realized uprising of the Polish Resistance against the German occupation in the city of Kraków during World War II.
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Kurier Warszawski
The Kurier Warszawski (or Warsaw Courier) was a daily newspaper printed in Warsaw, Poland from 1821 to 1939, with two editions daily from 1873.
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Kuwait
Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia.
Ladislaus of Naples
Ladislaus the Magnanimous (Ladislao, László; 15 February 1377 – 6 August 1414) was King of Naples from 1386 until his death and an unsuccessful claimant to the kingdoms of Hungary and Croatia.
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Lagos Treaty of Cession
The Treaty of Cession, 6 August 1861 or the Lagos Treaty of Cession was a treaty between the British Empire and Oba Dosunmu of Lagos (spelt 'Docemo' in English documents) wherein Dosunmu, under the threat of military bombardment, ceded Lagos Island to Britain, whilst retaining the title and powers of Oba, subject to English laws.
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Lajos Vajda
Lajos Vajda (Hungarian: Vajda Lajos; 1908, Zalaegerszeg – 1941, Budakeszi) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist.
Laker Airways
Laker Airways was a private British airline founded by Sir Freddie Laker in 1966.
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Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy
In 1948, on the initiative of Chilean President Gabriel González Videla, the Chilean National Congress enacted the Permanent Defense of Democracy Law (Ley de Defensa Permanente de la Democracia, Ley N° 8.987), referred to by many as the Damned Law (Ley Maldita), which outlawed the Communist Party of Chile and banned 26,650 persons from the electoral lists.
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Leandro Amaral
Leandro Câmara do Amaral (born 6 August 1977), is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a striker.
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Leanne Crichton
Leanne Crichton (born 6 August 1987) is a Scottish international footballer who plays as a midfielder for Motherwell and the Scotland national team.
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Leo Carrillo
Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo (August 6, 1880 – September 10, 1961) was an American actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist.
Leslie Odom Jr.
Leslie Lloyd Odom Jr. (born August 6, 1981) is an American actor, singer and songwriter.
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Leszek Błażyński
Leszek Błażyński (5 March 1949 – 6 August 1992) was a Polish boxer who twice won the bronze medal in the men's flyweight (– 51 kg) division at the Summer Olympics.
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Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex
Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex (1575 – 6 August 1645) was an English merchant and politician.
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List of colonial governors of Virginia
This is a list of colonial governors of Virginia.
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List of heads of state of Cuba
This article lists the heads of state of Cuba from 1902 until the present day.
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List of longest-living cats
This is a list of the oldest cats in the world, verified or not, listed by reported age, all of whom have attained the minimum age of 25 years.
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List of prime ministers of Greece
This is a list of the heads of government of the modern Greek state, from its establishment during the Greek Revolution to the present day.
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Little Boy
Little Boy was the name of the type of atomic bomb used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II, making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare.
Lord Chancellor
The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister.
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Lord Mayor of Dublin
The Lord Mayor of Dublin (Ardmhéara Bhaile Átha Cliath) is the honorary title of the chairperson (Cathaoirleach) of Dublin City Council which is the local government body for the city of Dublin, the capital of Ireland.
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Lorna Fitzsimons
Lorna Fitzsimons (born 6 August 1967) is a British businesswoman and former politician.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Louella Parsons
Louella Rose Oettinger, (August 6, 1881 – December 9, 1972) known professionally as Louella Parsons, was an American gossip columnist and a screenwriter.
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Louis XIV
LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
Louise de La Vallière
Françoise-Louise de La Baume Le Blanc, Duchess of La Vallière and Vaujours (6 August 1644 – 6 June 1710) was a French noblewoman and a mistress of King Louis XIV of France from 1661 to 1667.
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Louise Sorel
Louise Sorel (born August 6, 1940) is an American actress.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (6 August 1715 – 28 May 1747) was a French writer and moralist.
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Luciano Zavagno
Luciano Germán Zavagno (born August 6, 1977, in Santa Fe) is an Argentine retired footballer.
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Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedian, producer, and studio executive.
Luis Vizcaíno
Luis Vizcaíno Árias (born August 6, 1974) is a Dominican Republic former professional baseball pitcher.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
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M. Night Shyamalan
Manoj Nelliyattu M. Night Shyamalan (born August 6, 1970) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
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Maja Ognjenović
Maja Ognjenović (Маја Огњеновић; born 6 August 1984) is a Serbian professional volleyball player of the Serbia women's national volleyball team and a two-time Olympic medalist.
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Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.
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Margaret Heckler
Margaret Mary Heckler (née O'Shaughnessy; June 21, 1931 – August 6, 2018) was an American politician and diplomat who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 until 1983.
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Margaret of Durazzo
Margaret of Durazzo (Margherita di Durazzo 28 July 1347 – 6 August 1412) was Queen of Naples and Hungary and Princess of Achaea as the spouse of Charles III of Naples.
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Maria Ludwika Bernhard
Maria Ludwika Bernhard (August 6, 1908 – 1998) was a Polish classical archaeologist and a specialist in Greek Art.
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Maria Sophia of Neuburg
Maria Sophia Elisabeth of Neuburg (6 August 1666 – 4 August 1699) was Queen of Portugal as the wife of King Peter II from 1687 until her death in 1699.
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Mark Hughes (rugby league, born 1954)
Mark Stephen Hughes (born 6 August 1954) is an English-born Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for Canterbury-Bankstown in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Mark O'Donnell
Mark O’Donnell (July 19, 1954 – August 6, 2012) was an American writer and humorist.
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.
Mars Science Laboratory
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a robotic space probe mission to Mars launched by NASA on November 26, 2011, which successfully landed Curiosity, a Mars rover, in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012.
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Martin Wharton
John Martin Wharton, (born 6 August 1944) is a British Anglican bishop, a retired Bishop of Newcastle.
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Marvel Smith
Marvel Amos Smith (born August 6, 1978) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL).
Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2, 1944 – August 6, 2012) was an American composer and conductor.
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Marwan II
Marwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan (translit; – 6 August 750), commonly known as Marwan II, was the fourteenth and last caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from 744 until his death.
Mary Ann Sieghart
Mary Ann Corinna Howard Sieghart (born 6 August 1961) is an English author, journalist, radio presenter and former assistant editor of The Times, where she wrote columns about politics, social affairs and life in general.
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Matthew Parker
Matthew Parker (6 August 1504 – 17 May 1575) was an English bishop.
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Mauritania
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara.
Mava Lee Thomas
Mava Lee Thomas (September 1, 1929 – August 6, 2013) was an infielder and catcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
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Medal of Honor
The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians, and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor.
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Melissa George
Melissa Suzanne George (born 6 August 1976) is an Australian and American actress.
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Michael Deeley
Michael Deeley (born 6 August 1932) is an Academy Award-winning British film producer known for motion pictures such as The Italian Job (1969), The Deer Hunter (1978), and Blade Runner (1982).
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Michael Mingos
David Michael Patrick Mingos, FRS (born 6 August 1944) is a British chemist and academic.
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Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng (born Yeoh Choo Kheng;; 6 August 1962) is a Malaysian actress.
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Mickaël Delage
Mickaël Delage (born 6 August 1985) is a French former professional road and track cyclist, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam.
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Mike Elliott (saxophonist)
Mike Elliott (born 6 August 1929) is a Jamaican-born British saxophonist.
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Mike Greenberg
Michael Darrow Greenberg (born August 6, 1967) is a television anchor, television show host, radio show host for ESPN and ABC, and novelist.
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Minister for Foreign Affairs (Australia)
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, also known as the Foreign Minister, is the minister of state of the Commonwealth of Australia charged with overseeing the creation and implementation of international diplomacy, relations and foreign affairs policy, as the head of the foreign affairs section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
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Minister of National Defence (Canada)
The minister of National Defence (MND; ministre de la défense nationale) is a minister of the Crown in the Cabinet of Canada responsible for the management and direction of all matters relating to the national defence of Canada.
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Minister of Public Works (Canada)
The Minister of Public Works was a position in the Cabinet of Canada who oversaw the public works portfolio of the federal government.
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Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.
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Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (translit; born 20 December 1956) is a retired Mauritanian military officer and politician who served as the 8th president of Mauritania from 2009 to 2019.
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Mukhu Aliyev
Mukhu Gimbatovich Aliyev (Муху́ Гимба́тович Али́ев,; Мухӏу Гӏалиев; born August 6, 1940) is a Russian politician who served as the 2nd Head of the Republic of Dagestan, a federal subject of Russia.
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung is a newspaper based in New Braunfels, Texas, covering the Comal County area of Central Texas.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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Nicolas Malebranche
Nicolas Malebranche (6 August 1638 – 13 October 1715) was a French Oratorian Catholic priest and rationalist philosopher.
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Nikos Tsiforos
Nikos Tsiforos (Νίκος Τσιφόρος; 27 August 1912 – 6 August 1970) was a Greek humorist, screenwriter, and film director.
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Nimitz Hill (geographic feature)
Nimitz Hill is a hill in Asan-Maina, Guam.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.
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Norman Gordon
Norman Gordon (6 August 1911 – 2 September 2014) was a South African cricketer who played in five Test matches during the 1938–39 South African cricket season.
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Norman Granz
Norman Granz (August 6, 1918 – November 22, 2001) was an American jazz record producer and concert promoter.
Norman Wexler
Norman Wexler (August 16, 1926 – August 23, 1999) was an American screenwriter whose work included films such as Saturday Night Fever, Serpico and Joe.
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North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
Norwich University
Norwich University – The Military College of Vermont is a private senior military college in Northfield, Vermont.
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Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.
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Octavio Getino
Octavio Getino (August 6, 1935 in León, Spain – October 1, 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Argentine film director and writer who is best known for co-founding, along with Fernando Solanas, the Grupo Cine Liberación and the school of Third Cinema.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.
Orna Porat
Orna Porat (אורנה פורת; June 6, 1924 – August 6, 2015) was a German-born Israeli theater actress.
Pat MacDonald (musician)
Patrick Lee MacDonald (born August 6, 1952) is an American musician and songwriter.
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Paul Bartel
Paul Bartel (August 6, 1938 – May 13, 2000) was an American actor, writer and director.
Paul Claudel
Paul Claudel (6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel.
Paul Hellyer
Paul Theodore Hellyer (August 6, 1923 – August 8, 2021) was a Canadian engineer, politician, writer, and commentator.
Pauline Betz
Pauline Betz Addie (née Pauline May Betz, August 6, 1919 – May 31, 2011) was an American professional tennis player.
Peruvian War of Independence
The Peruvian War of Independence (Guerra de Independencia del Perú) was a series of military conflicts in Peru from 1809 to 1826 that resulted in the country's independence from the Spanish Empire.
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Peter Bonerz
Peter Roman Bonerz (born August 6, 1938) is an American actor and director.
Petrobey Mavromichalis
Petros Mavromichalis (1765–1848), also known as Petrobey, was a Greek general, politician and the leader of the Maniot people during the first half of the 19th century.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born 6 August 1934) is an American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony.
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Pope Callixtus III
Pope Callixtus III (Callisto III, Calixt III, Calixto III; 31 December 1378 – 6 August 1458), born Alfonso de Borgia (Alfons de Borja), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 April 1455 to his death, in August 1458.
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Pope Hormisdas
Pope Hormisdas ("Hormisdas, St." in William Darrach Halsey, Collier's Encyclopedia Volume 12, Macmillan Educational Company, 1984, p. 244. c. 450 – 6 August 523) was the bishop of Rome from 20 July 514 to his death.
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Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI (Paulus VI; Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini,; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his death on 6 August 1978.
Pope Sixtus II
Pope Sixtus II (Πάπας Σίξτος Β΄), also written as Pope Xystus II, was bishop of Rome from 31 August 257 until his death on 6 August 258.
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Premier of Queensland
The premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland.
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President of Guyana
The president of Guyana is the head of state and the head of government of Guyana, as well as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Republic, according to the Constitution of Guyana.
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Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges (born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
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Prime Minister of Iran
The prime minister of Iran was a political post that had existed in Iran (Persia) during much of the 20th century.
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Prime Minister of Malta
The prime minister of Malta (Prim Ministru ta' Malta) is the head of government, which is the highest official of Malta.
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Prime Minister of New Zealand
The prime minister of New Zealand (Te pirimia o Aotearoa) is the head of government of New Zealand.
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Public holidays in Bolivia
Bolivia Holidays.
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Quad-City Times
The Quad-City Times is a daily morning newspaper based in Davenport, Iowa, and circulated throughout the Quad Cities metropolitan area, including Davenport, Bettendorf and Scott County in Iowa; and Moline, East Moline, Rock Island, and Rock Island County in Illinois.
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Radhia Cousot
Radhia Cousot (6 August 1947 – 1 May 2014) was a French computer scientist known for inventing abstract interpretation.
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Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall (also known as Radio City) is an entertainment venue and theater at 1260 Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.
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Rajendra Singh
Rajendra Singh (born 6 August 1959) is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India.
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Ralph Bryans
Ralph Bryans (7 March 1941 – 6 August 2014) was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Northern Ireland.
Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
Ramon Berenguer IV (c. 1114 – 6 August 1162, Anglicized Raymond Berengar IV), sometimes called the Saint, was the count of Barcelona and the consort of Aragon who brought about the union of the County of Barcelona with the Kingdom of Aragon to form the Crown of Aragon.
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Randy DeBarge
William Randall DeBarge (born August 6, 1958) is an American R&B/soul singer and bass guitarist, best known for being one of the original members of the popular Motown singing family group DeBarge.
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Raphael Pyrasch
Rafael Pyrasch (born 6 August 1986) accessed: 17 March 2010 is a German international rugby union player, playing for the Heidelberger RK in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.
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Ray Culp
Raymond Leonard Culp (born August 6, 1941) is an American former professional baseball pitcher.
Ray Hill (American football)
Raymond Millous Hill (August 7, 1975 – August 6, 2015) was a college and professional American football player.
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Ray Lucas
Ray Lucas (born August 6, 1972) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL).
Rebecca Peterson
Rebecca Peterson (born 6 August 1995) is a Swedish professional tennis player.
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Rebeka Masarova
Rebeka Masarova (Rebeka Masárová,; born 6 August 1999) is a Swiss-born Spanish professional tennis player.
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Renate Götschl
Renate Götschl (born 6 August 1975) is an Austrian former alpine ski racer. She is a two-time individual World Champion in the combined (1997) and downhill (1999), and has won a total of 9 World Championships medals. She also won two Olympic medals in 2002, the bronze medal in downhill and the silver medal in the combined.
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Republic of Genoa
The Republic of Genoa (Repúbrica de Zêna; Repubblica di Genova; Res Publica Ianuensis) was a medieval and early modern maritime republic from the years 1099 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast.
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Republic of Pisa
The Republic of Pisa (Repubblica di Pisa) was an independent state existing from the 11th to the 15th century and centered on the Tuscan city of Pisa.
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Republican Herald
The Republican Herald is a daily newspaper serving Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
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Riccardo Cassin
Riccardo Cassin (2 January 19096 August 2009) was an Italian mountaineer, developer of mountaineering equipment and author, and an important figure in the history of rock climbing, alpine climbing and big wall climbing.
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Richard Bennett (governor)
Richard Bennett (1608 – 12 April 1675) was an English planter and Governor of the Colony of Virginia, serving 1652–1655.
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Richard Bong
Richard "Dick" Ira Bong (September 24, 1920 – August 6, 1945) was a United States Army Air Forces major and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II.
Richard C. Miller
Richard Crump Miller (August 6, 1912 – October 15, 2010) was an American photographer best known for his vintage carbro prints, photos of celebrities, and work documenting the Hollywood Freeway.
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Richard Cragun
Richard Cragun (5 October 1944 – 6 August 2012) was an American ballet dancer, teacher and ballet director who performed with the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany from 1965 to 1996.
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Richard Hofstadter
Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916October 24, 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century.
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Richard III, Duke of Normandy
Richard III (997/1001 – 6 August 1027) was the duke of Normandy who reigned from August 1026 to his death.
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Rick James
James Ambrose Johnson Jr. (February 1, 1948 – August 6, 2004), better known by his stage name Rick James, was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.
Robert Hughes (critic)
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO (28 July 19386 August 2012) was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries.
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Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor.
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Robin Cook
Robert Finlayson "Robin" Cook (28 February 19466 August 2005) was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 until his death in 2005 and served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 until 2001 when he was replaced by Jack Straw.
Robin van Persie
Robin van Persie (born 6 August 1983) is a Dutch football coach and former professional footballer who is the head coach of Eredivisie club Heerenveen.
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Roch La Salle
Roch La Salle (August 6, 1928 – August 20, 2007) was a Canadian politician from the province of Quebec.
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Roland Michener
Daniel Roland Michener (April 19, 1900 – August 6, 1991) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 20th since Canadian Confederation.
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Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.
Ron Jones (television director)
Ron Jones (6 August 1945 – 9 July 1995) was a British television director.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
Ruggiero Ricci
Ruggiero Ricci (24 July 1918 – 5 August 2012) was an American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Saint Dominic
Saint Dominic, (Santo Domingo; 8 August 1170 – 6 August 1221), also known as Dominic de Guzmán, was a Castilian-French Catholic priest and the founder of the Dominican Order.
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Samuel Bowers
Samuel Holloway Bowers Jr. (August 25, 1924 – November 5, 2006) was an American white supremacist who co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and became its first Imperial Wizard.
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Scott Nearing
Scott Nearing (August 6, 1883 – August 24, 1983) was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, vegetarian and advocate of simple living.
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Serbia
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain.
Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology.
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Shan Ratnam
Emeritus Professor Sittampalam Shanmugaratnam (4 July 1928 – 6 August 2001), also known as Shan Ratnam, was a Singaporean obstetrician and gynaecologist.
Shapour Bakhtiar
Shapour Bakhtiar (شاپور بختیار,; 26 June 19146 August 1991) was an Iranian politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Iran under the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
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Shin Ki-ha
Shin Ki-ha (April 27, 1941 – August 6, 1997), was a South Korean politician.
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi (سيدي محمد ولد الشيخ عبد الله‎; 193822 November 2020) was a Mauritanian politician who was President of Mauritania from 2007 to 2008.
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Siege of Fort Stanwix
The Siege of Fort Stanwix (also known as Fort Schuyler) began on August 2, 1777 and ended on August 22, 1777.
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Simón Bolívar
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco (24July 178317December 1830) was a Venezuelan statesman and military officer who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire.
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Simon Doull
Simon Blair Doull (born 6 August 1969) is a New Zealand radio personality, commentator and former international cricketer.
Snell Exhibition
The Snell Exhibition is an annual scholarship awarded to students of the University of Glasgow to allow them to undertake postgraduate study at Balliol College, Oxford.
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Social Democratic Party (Japan)
The is a political party in Japan that was established in 1996.
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Soleil Moon Frye
Soleil Moon Frye (born August 6, 1976) is an American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Sports Reference
Sports Reference, LLC is an American company which operates several sports-related websites, including Sports-Reference.com, Baseball-Reference.com for baseball, Basketball-Reference.com for basketball, Hockey-Reference.com for ice hockey, Pro-Football-Reference.com for American football, and FBref.com for association football (soccer).
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St. Nicholas Rink
The St.
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Stan Lynde
Myron Stanford Lynde (September 23, 1931 – August 6, 2013) was an American comic strip artist, painter and novelist.
Stéphane Peterhansel
Stéphane Peterhansel (born 6 August 1965 in Échenoz-la-Méline, Haute-Saône) is a rally driver from France.
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Stefan Bastyr
Stefan Bastyr (17 August 1890 – 6 August 1920) was a Polish aviator and military pilot, one of the pioneers of the Polish aviation.
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Stephen V of Hungary
Stephen V (V., Stjepan V., Štefan V.; before 18 October 1239 – 6 August 1272, Csepel Island) was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1270 and 1272, and Duke of Styria from 1258 to 1260.
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Stuart O'Grady
Stuart O'Grady (born 6 August 1973) is a retired Australian professional road bicycle racer, who rode as a professional between 1995 and 2013.
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Surendranath Banerjee
Sir Surendranath Banerjee (10 November 18486 August 1925), often known as Rashtraguru was Indian nationalist leader during the British Rule.
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Susie King Taylor
Susie King Taylor (August 6, 1848 – October 6, 1912) was an American nurse, educator and memoirist.
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Suvla
View of Suvla from Battleship Hill Suvla is a bay on the Aegean coast of the Gallipoli peninsula in European Turkey, south of the Gulf of Saros.
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.
Tabby cat
A tabby cat, or simply tabby, is any domestic cat (Felis catus) with a distinctive M-shaped marking on its forehead, stripes by its eyes and across its cheeks, along its back, around its legs and tail, and characteristic striped, dotted, lined, flecked, banded, or swirled patterns on the body: neck, shoulders, sides, flanks, chest, and abdomen.
Takako Doi
was a prominent Japanese politician from 1980 until her retirement in 2005.
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.
Tex Hughson
Cecil Carlton Hughson, (February 9, 1916 – August 6, 1993) was an American Major League Baseball starting pitcher who played his entire career in the American League with the Boston Red Sox (1941–44, 1946–49).
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
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The Advocate-Messenger
The Advocate-Messenger is a newspaper published Tuesday and Friday in Danville, Kentucky.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Paris News
The Paris News is a newspaper based in Paris, Texas, covering the Northeast Texas counties of Lamar, Delta, Red River and Fannin, plus Choctaw County, Oklahoma.
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The Plain Dealer
The Plain Dealer is the major newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio; it is a major national newspaper.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno (born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist.
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Thomas Alexander Browne
Thomas Alexander Browne (born Brown, 6 August 1826 – 11 March 1915) was an Australian author who published many of his works under the pseudonym Rolf Boldrewood.
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Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP.
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Tjerk Hiddes de Vries
Tjerk Hiddes de Vries (6 August 1622 – 6 August 1666) was a Dutch States Navy officer.
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Ton Scherpenzeel
Ton Scherpenzeel (born 6 August 1952) is a Dutch keyboardist, composer, lyricist, and founding member of Dutch progressive rock band Kayak.
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Tony Lazzeri
Anthony Michael Lazzeri (December 6, 1903 – August 6, 1946) was an American professional baseball second baseman during the 1920s and 1930s, predominantly with the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball.
Transfiguration of Jesus
The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event described in the New Testament, where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain.
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Travis Reed
Travis Reed (born August 6, 1979) is an American retired professional basketball player.
Treaty of The Hague (1661)
The Treaty of The Hague (also known as the Treaty of Den Haag) was signed on 6 August 1661 between representatives of the Dutch Republic and Portugal.
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U-boat
U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.
U-boat campaign
The U-boat campaign from 1914 to 1918 was the World War I naval campaign fought by German U-boats against the trade routes of the Allies.
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United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
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United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
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Víctor Zambrano
Víctor Manuel Zambrano (born August 6, 1975) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher.
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Vedad Ibišević
Vedad Ibišević (born 6 August 1984) is a Bosnian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
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Vera Farmiga
Vera Ann Farmiga (born August 6, 1973) is an American actress.
Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
Vic Dickenson
Victor Dickenson (August 6, 1906 – November 16, 1984) was an American jazz trombonist.
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Vince Wells
Vincent John Wells (born 6 August 1965) is an English former professional cricketer.
Virginia Foster Durr
Virginia Foster Durr (August 6, 1903 – February 24, 1999) was an American civil rights activist and lobbyist.
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Vitaphone
Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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Wallace H. White
Wallace Humphrey White Jr. (August 6, 1877March 31, 1952) was an American politician and Republican leader in the United States Congress from 1917 until 1949.
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War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021.
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Warsaw Uprising
The Warsaw Uprising (powstanie warszawskie; Warschauer Aufstand), sometimes referred to as the August Uprising (powstanie sierpniowe), was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.
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White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
The White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) organization which is active in the United States.
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Wilhelm Mohnke
Wilhelm Mohnke (15 March 1911 – 6 August 2001) was a German military officer who was one of the original members of the Schutzstaffel SS-Stabswache Berlin (Staff Guard Berlin) formed in March 1933.
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Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria; 31 August 1880 – 28 November 1962) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948.
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William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston (6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium.
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William Kemmler
William Francis Kemmler (May 9, 1860 – August 6, 1890) was an American peddler, alcoholic, and murderer, who, in 1890, became the first person in the world to be executed by electric chair.
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William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, (6 August 1891 – 14 December 1970), usually known as Bill Slim, was a British military commander and the 13th Governor-General of Australia.
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Willy DeVille
Willy DeVille (born William Paul Borsey Jr.; August 25, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American singer and songwriter.
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Wilmer Flores
Wilmer Alejandro Flores Garcia (born August 6, 1991), nicknamed "Catire", is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB).
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.
See August 6 and World Wide Web
Yuki Kajiura
is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer.
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (Zāyid bin Sulṭān Āl Nahyān; 6 May 1918 – 2 November 2004) was an Emirati royal, politician, philanthropist and the founder of the United Arab Emirates.
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Zsolt Daczi
Zsolt Daczi (June 12, 1969 – August 6, 2007) was a Hungarian guitarist.
1027
Year 1027 (MXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1162
Year 1162 (MCLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1180
Year 1180 (MCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1195
Year 1195 (MCXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1221
Year 1221 (MCCXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1272
Year 1272 (MCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1284
Year 1284 (MCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1384
Year 1384 (MCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1412
Year 1412 (MCDXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) on the Julian calendar.
1414
Year 1414 (MCDXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1458
Year 1458 (MCDLVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1458th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 458th year of the 2nd millennium, the 58th year of the 15th century, and the 9th year of the 1450s decade.
1504
Year 1504 (MDIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1530
Year 1530 (MDXXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1530th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 530th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 16th century, and the 1st year of the 1530s decade.
1538
Year 1538 (MDXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1553
Year 1553 (MDLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1572
Year 1572 (MDLXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1644
It is one of eight years (CE) to contain each Roman numeral once (1000(M)+500(D)+100(C)+(-10(X)+50(L))+(-1(I)+5(V)).
1666
This is the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem so titled, celebrating England's failure to be beaten either by the Dutch or by fire.
1715
For dates within Great Britain and the British Empire, as well as in the Russian Empire, the "old style" Julian calendar was used in 1715, and can be converted to the "new style" Gregorian calendar (adopted in the British Empire in 1752 and in Russia in 1923) by adding 11 days.
1775
The American Revolutionary War began this year, with the first military engagement on April 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord on the day after Paul Revere's ride.
1844
In the Philippines, this was the only leap year with 365 days, when Tuesday, December 31 was skipped as Monday, December 30 was immediately followed by Wednesday, January 1, 1845, the next day after.
1848
1848 is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary; although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the political and philosophical landscape and had major ramifications throughout the rest of the century.
1861
Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry.
1900
As of March 1 (O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 (O.S. February 15), 2100.
1908
This is the longest year in either the Julian or Gregorian calendars, having a duration of 31622401.38 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or ephemeris time), measured according to the definition of mean solar time.
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
1912
This year is notable for the sinking of the ''Titanic'', which occurred on April 15th.
1914
This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip.
1915
Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.
1916
Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix.
1917
Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.
1918
The ceasefire that effectively ended the First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year.
1923
In Greece, this year contained only 352 days as 13 days was skipped to achieve the calendrical switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar.
1926
In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days.
1929
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression.
1940
A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
1941
The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million.
1942
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million.
1943
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
1944
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
1945
1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan.
1947
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
1957
1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade.
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
1962
The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a nuclear confrontation during the Cold War.
1969
1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated.
1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal.
1975
It was also declared the International Women's Year by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
1978
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1983
1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
1990
Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, and the Baltic states declaring independence from the Soviet Union during Perestroika.
1991
It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947.
1992
1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations.
1993
1993 was designated as.
1994
The year 1994 was designated as the "International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.
1995
1995 was designated as.
1996
1996 was designated as.
1998
1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.
1999
1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.
2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror.
2002
After the September 11 attacks of the previous year, foreign policy and international relations were generally united in combating al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Freshwater In 2003, a United States-led coalition invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
2005
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit.
2007
2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year.
2008
2008 was designated as.
2008 Mauritanian coup d'état
The 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état was a military coup that took place in Mauritania on August 6, 2008, when President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by the Armed Forces of Mauritania, led by a group of high-ranking generals he had dismissed from office earlier that day.
See August 6 and 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état
2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Johannes Kepler.
2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake.
2010 Ladakh floods
The 2010 Ladakh floods occurred on 6 August 2010 across a large part of Ladakh, then part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
See August 6 and 2010 Ladakh floods
2011
The year marked the start of a series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, and in some cases sparking civil wars such as the Syrian civil war and the first Libyan civil war, the former still ongoing while the latter gave way to the second Libyan civil war.
2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown
On 6 August 2011, a U.S. CH-47D Chinook military helicopter operating with the call sign Extortion 17 (pronounced "one-seven") was shot down while transporting a Quick Reaction Force attempting to reinforce a Joint Special Operations Command unit of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the Tangi Valley in Maidan Wardak province, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan.
See August 6 and 2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown
2012
2012 was designated as.
2013
2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four different digits (a span of 26 years).
2014
2014 was designated as.
2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as.
2015 Abha mosque bombing
The 2015 Abha mosque bombing occurred on 6 August 2015, when a suicide bomb attack killed 17 people at a mosque in the south-western Saudi Arabian city of Abha.
See August 6 and 2015 Abha mosque bombing
2017
2017 was designated as International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.
258
Year 258 (CCLVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
See August 6 and 258
523
Year 523 (DXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
See August 6 and 523
60 Minutes
60 Minutes is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network.
750
Year 750 (DCCL) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 750th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 750th year of the 1st millennium, the 50th year of the 8th century, and the 1st year of the 750s decade.
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