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Events on August 6

• 1791 Prussia's King Frederick William II. dedicates the not yet fully completed Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. He opens it to general traffic.
• 1806 Francis II. renounces the title of Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and at the same time declares the Empire extinct in order to rule out any possible election of Napoleon as his successor. The Empire thus ceases to exist after 844 years.
• 1926 The American woman Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel, taking 14 hours and 34 minutes to do so.
• 1932 Cologne's Lord Mayor Konrad Adenauer inaugurates Germany's first public motorway, today's A 555, between Cologne and Bonn. It was built between 1929 and 1932.
• 1932 The Venice Film Festival is held for the first time.
• 1950 In Stuttgart, the Charter of the German Expellees, signed the previous day by representatives of the expellee associations, is solemnly proclaimed.
• 1965 Help!, the Beatles' fifth album and the soundtrack to the film of the same name, is released.
• 1991 In a post to the alt.hypertext newsgroup, Tim Berners-Lee presents the World Wide Web project as a hypertext service on the Internet.
• 1998 The American science fiction film The X-Files opens in German cinemas.
• 2008 As early as two days before the opening of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, the women's Olympic football tournament begins with six preliminary-round matches.
• 2011 The escalation of an initially peaceful demonstration in London marks the beginning of several days of disturbances in England.
• 2012 The rover “Curiosity”, deployed as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, lands successfully on Mars and sends the first images of the landscape of the neighbouring planet.

Born on August 6

• 1865 Hannah Chaplin, British dancer and singer
• 1880 Hans Moser, Austrian actor
• 1881 Alexander Fleming, British bacteriologist, discoverer of penicillin, Nobel Prize winner
• 1911 Lucille Ball, American actress, film and television producer
• 1940 Peter Ehlebracht, German cabaret artist
• 1942 Evelyn Hamann, German actress
• 1951 Catherine Hicks, American film actress
• 1970 M. Night Shyamalan, American screenwriter and director
• 1970 Ricardo Villalobos, German-Chilean DJ and musician
• 1980 Roman Weidenfeller, German football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „6. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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