August 6th

August 6 is the 219th day of the year.  There are 147 days remaining until the end of the year.

1890 Denton True "Cy[clone]" Young pitches and wins his 1st major league baseball game

1926 IT'S ALIVE!: Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel to burn off the calories from the rich French food.

1930 New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater disappears in New York City

1945 Atom bomb is dropped on Hiroshima at 8:16 a.m. from the B-29 bomber "Enola Gay" piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbits

1952 Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout

1961 1st case of motion sickness in space is reported

1964 Prometheus, a 5,000 year-old bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down in its prime.  It was probably for a good cause. . .

1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks

1973 Stevie Wonder is involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma. Stevie was driving.

1986 Sydney gets a spot of rain when a low-pressure system dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day.

1989 "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 5959 performances

1991 It’s the End of the World as We Know It:  Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

1996 NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

1809 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, gay English poet Laureate for most of Queen Victoria's reign   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson

1844 James Henry Greathead, maybe gay, brilliantly named, South African-born English engineer,built tunnels for subways and railroads 

1908 Will Lee, maybe gay US actor/Sesame Street’s Mr. Hooper 

1928 Andy Warhol [Andrew Varchola, Jr.], gay US painter/filmmaker/the art of pop art 

1938 Paul Bartel, gay US director/writer/actor

1947 Oliver Tobias [Freitag], Swiss actor/director 

1957 Jim McGreevey, Gay American/former NJ Govenor  

1971 Alex Avery, maybe gay English actor  

1972 Jason O'Mara, Irish actor  

1975 Jamie McGonnigal, gay US actor 

1980 Leo Alkemade, maybe gay Dutch actor/comedian 

1982 Danny Lopes, maybe gay US actor 

1982 Karl Davies, English actor 

1890 William Kemmler, US murderer, is first to be executed in electric chair (NY). Read the news and eye-witness accounts.  Ain't technology wonderful? 

1978 Paul VI [Giovanni Montini], probably gay Italian Pope (1963-78), meets the boss

2009 John Hughes, American film director (Mr. Mom, Ferris Bueller's Day Off), is a victim of weird science.