41st year - Nr 218 Thursday, 6 August 2026

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41st year - Nr 218 Thursday, 6 August 2026

6 August / Today's 30 Events:

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(-) 1768 years ago Friday 6th of August 0258 24th Pope Sixtus II is executed by beheading in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Sixtus was martyred along with six deacons; Januarius, Vincentius, Magnus, Stephanus, Felicissimus and Agapitus.

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(-) 1503 years ago Friday 6th of August 0523 52nd Pope Hormisdas dies of unknown causes at the age of 73 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 568 years ago Friday 6th of August 1458 209th Pope Callixtus III, originally Alfons de Borja dies of unknown causes at the age of 80 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 366 years ago Friday 6th of August 1660 Painter Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez dies of fever at the age of 61 in Madrid, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain.

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(+) 217 years ago Sunday 6th of August 1809 Poet Alfred Tennyson is born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 202 years ago Friday 6th of August 1824 Serial poisoner William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners is born in Rugeley, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 145 years ago Saturday 6th of August 1881 Biologist, pharmacologist and botanist Alexander Fleming known for discovering Penicillin is born in Lochfield Farm, Darvel, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(-) 136 years ago the Stench Was Unbearable Wednesday 6th of August 1890 Murderer William Francis Kemmler aka John Hart known for becoming the first man executed using an electric chair is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 30 in Auburn Prison, State Street, Auburn, New York, United States. Kemmler was the first person in the world to be legally executed using an electric chair. He murdered his common-law wife Matilda 'Tillie' Ziegler with a hatchet on 29 March 1889. Current of 1.000 volts was passed through Kemmler for 17 seconds and he was declared dead by Dr. Edward Charles Spitzka. Witnesses noticed Kemmler was still breathing so attending physicians Dr. Spitzka and Dr. Charles F. M acdonald came forward to examine Kemmler. After confirming he was still alive Spitzka called out "Have the current turned on again, quick — no delay." In the second attempt Kemmler was shocked with 2.000 volts. Blood vessels under the skin ruptured and bled and some witnesses erroneously claimed his body caught fire. The New York Times reported instead that "an awful odor began to permeate the death chamber, and then, as though to cap the climax of this fearful sight, it was seen that the hair under and around the electrode on the head and the flesh under and around the electrode at the base of the spine was singeing. The stench was unbearable."

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(+) 124 years ago Wednesday 6th of August 1902 Mobster Arthur Flegenheimer aka Dutch Schultz is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 115 years ago Everybody Loved Lucy Sunday 6th of August 1911 Actress, comedian, model and producer Lucille Désirée Ball known from her self-produced sitcom I Love Lucy is born in 69 Stewart Avenue, Jamestown, New York, United States.

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(+) 109 years ago Monday 6th of August 1917 Actor Robert Charles Durman Mitchum is born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.

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(+) 101 years ago Thursday 6th of August 1925 Victim of The Manson Family Leno Pasqualino Antonio LaBianca is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(+) 99 years ago Saturday 6th of August 1927 Pop artist Andy Warhol, originally Andrew Warhola aka The Pope of Pop is born in 3252 Dawson Street, South Oakland, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 85 years ago Wednesday 6th of August 1941 Victim of Jack the Stripper Gwynneth Rees aka Tina Smart Dawson is born in Barry, Wales, United Kingdom.

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(-) 83 years ago Friday 6th of August 1943 Murderer Harry Thompson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Tucker Unit, Tucker, Arkansas, United States.

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(x) 81 years ago Little Boy Had a Big Impact Monday 6th of August 1945 US Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber 'Enola Gay' drops a bomb named 'Little Boy' containing about 64 kg uranium-235 in Shima Hospital, Hiroshima, Chūgoku, Japan. The radius of total destruction was about 1,6 km with resulting fires across 11 square km. Some 70.000–80.000 people or around 30% of the population of Hiroshima were killed by the blast and resultant firestorm and another 70.000 were injured.

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(x) 65 years ago Sunday 6th of August 1961 26-year-old Cosmonaut Gherman Stepanovich Titov becomes the second person to orbit the earth aboard Vostok 2, landing in Krasny Kut, Saratov Oblast, Russia. Titov was preceded by Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961.

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(-) 61 years ago Friday 6th of August 1965 Peter Fuchs is abducted, tortured and killed by serial killer Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder in Luftschutzbunker, Heegerstraße 34, Langenberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Fuchs was abducted from the Hauptbahnhof in Oberhausen.

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(x) 60 years ago Saturday 6th of August 1966 41-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey assaults and rapes an unidentified 15-year-old girl in Trinity, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(-) 57 years ago Wednesday 6th of August 1969 Philosopher Theodor Adorno, originally Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund dies of heart palpitations after climbing a 3000m mountain against advice by his doctor at the age of 66 in Visp, Valais, Switzerland. Adorno was convinced that recent attacks by students were directed against his theories as well as his person and he feared that the current political situation may lead to totalitarianism.

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(-) 48 years ago Sunday 6th of August 1978 262nd Pope Paulus VI, originally Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini aka The Pilgrim Pope dies of a heart attack at the age of 81 in Palazzo Apostolico, Castel Gandolfo, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 43 years ago Saturday 6th of August 1983 Countertenor Klaus Nomi, originally Klaus Sperber dies of AIDS-related complications at the age of 39 in Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, New York, United States. Nomi was one of the first celebrities to die of complications from AIDS.

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(x) 41 years ago Tuesday 6th of August 1985 25-year-old Serial killer Richard Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez aka The Night Stalker breaks into the house of 38-year-old Chris and 27-year-old Virginia Peterson and shoots them in the head and face in Northridge, Los Angeles, California, United States. The couple survived their injuries.

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(-) 39 years ago Thursday 6th of August 1987 Psychotic Dwain Wallace is shot dead while attempting to slip past two officers of the Federal Protective Service at the Pentagon's River Entrance at the age of 30 in The Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia, United States.

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(+) 36 years ago Monday 6th of August 1990 Child beauty queen JonBenét Patricia Ramsey is born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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(x) 29 years ago Wednesday 6th of August 1997 228 die in Korean Air Flight 801 Boeing 747-3B5 crash in Nimitz Hill, Asan, Guam, United States. There were 23 passengers and three flight attendants who survived the crash with serious injuries.

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(x) 21 years ago Saturday 6th of August 2005 Noise music band Club Moral play their 113th concert at the Death Petrol festival in Scheld'apen, D'Herbouvillekaai 36, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 6th of August 2005 A performance by an unidentified artist at the Death Petrol festival in Scheld'apen, D'Herbouvillekaai 36, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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17 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 6th of August 2009 The old pier in Rawa Island, Johor, Malaysia.

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(x) 17 years ago Thursday 6th of August 2009 80-year-old Great Train Robber Ronnie Ronald Arthur Biggs is released from prison on compassionate grounds in Norwich Prison, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom. On 28 July 2009 Biggs was admitted to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with pneumonia. He had been admitted to the same hospital a month earlier with a chest infection and a fractured hip but returned to prison on 17 July 2009.

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