International observance days, weeks, and months for August 6, 2027. Plus historical events and birthdays.
August 6, 2027 celebrates International Beer Day. The first Friday in August brings a toast to ales, lagers, and pilsners that put the international in International Beer Day. Whether your beer is fermented or not, dark or pale, hoppy, bitter, smooth, or domestic, we raise our mug on International Beer Day.
Read the full story →People born on August 6
Chemist and physicist who discovered the chemical elements palladium and rhodium.
The first African-American nurse during the American Civil War.
Astrophysicist who mathematically analyzed the Sun as a gaseous body.
Actor best known for his role as Pancho in the television series The Cisco Kid.
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist who discovered penicillin and it's uses to treat infections.
Events that occurred on August 6 throughout history
Norwich University is founded in Vermont and becomes the first private military school in the U.S.
Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the reservation and replacing tribal lands with individual allotments and homesteads for outsiders.
German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea in response to the UK declaring war on Germany of the German invasion of Belgium.
Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel. The 19-year old swam 21 miles from France to England in 14 hours and 31 minutes. She beat the standing men's record by two hours.
Queen Wilhelmina (Netherlands) becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress. Her message emphasized unity with Allied forces and shared the "No surrender" motto as she referred to her own nation being under Nazi occupation.
The U.S. drops the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb kills around 70,000 people instantly, and tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation, including oil refineries, sugar mills, and mines. As result, the U.S. severed diplomatic ties and imposed economic sanctions.
Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom after 300 years of British rule.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. The Act outlawed discriminatory voting tests, authorized federal examiners to register qualified voters in areas with persistent racial discrimination and directed the Attorney General to challenge poll taxes in state and local elections
English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web as a publicly available service on the Internet. Berners-Lee invented HTML, the URL system, and HTTP.
A U.S. military helicopter is shot down in Afghanistan, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the U.S. in the War in Afghanistan.
NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars with a goal of finding out if Mars could support tiny life form.
Longer-running observances that include this date.
