August 6: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

• Geri Halliwell (1972)

  British singer and former member of "The Spice Girls," the most popular pop group of the 1990s.

• Lucille Ball (1911)

  American actress and well-known comedian, with over 50 films since her 1933 debut.

• Vera Farmiga (1973)

  American actress.

• Robert Mitchum (1917)

  American actor, writer, composer, and singer.

• Michelle Yeoh (1962)

  Malaysian-Hong Kong producer and actress.

• Soleil Moon Frye (1976)

  American actress.

• Romola Garai (1982)

  English actress and model.

• Melissa George (1976)

  Australian actress.

• Barbara Windsor (1937)

  British comedian actor, known for her sexy roles in the 1967 "Carry On" films.

• Catherine Hicks (1951)

  TV Actress.

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• Rick James (2004)

  American R&B singer and multi-instrumentalist (Born 1948).

• Domenico Modugno (1994)

  Italian singer-songwriter, who won the top prize at 1958 San Remo for his song "Nel Blu Di Blu", a song also known as "Volare" in the U.S.

• Dorothy Tutin (2001)

  British actress who has been a leading actor in Shakespearean roles since 1952.

• Nancy Carroll (1965)

  Actress (Alice Aldrich Family), dead at 60.

• Cedric Hardwicke (1964)

  English-American actor and director (d. 64).

• Warner Oland (1938)

  Actor (Werewolf in London, Jazz Singer), is killed at 57.

• Theodor Adorno (1969)

  German philosopher, social theorist, and music critic.

• Fulgencio Batista (1973)

  Cuban military officer who was the dictator of his country between 1940-1944.

• Jacques Soustelle (1990)

  French politician, anthropologist and ethnologist, Governor General of Algeria 1955-1956.

• Bix Beiderbecke (1931)

  American composer, musician and jazz legend.

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Western Zodiac

Leo

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• Aug 6th, 2018 2018 European heatwave: Nine people are killed in a heat wave that hit Spain. (Publico: Seven people are killed by a heat wave in Genoa.
• Aug 6th, 2017 Boko Haram: 11 people are killed by gunmen in an attack on St Phillip's Catholic Church, Ozubulu, Nigeria's Anambra State.
• Aug 6th, 2016 Syrian civil war: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims 10 people were killed in an attack on a hospital in Milis, Syria's Idlib Province.
• Aug 6th, 2015 Afghanistan War (2001-present: A suicide bomber injures 12 people in Pul-i-Alam, Logar Province.
• Aug 6th, 2014 Syrian Civil War: Saudi Arabia gives Lebanon US$1 Billion to aid in the conflict with self-declared terrorist fighters near the border with Syria.
• Aug 6th, 2013 2013 India-Pakistan border incident: Five Indian Army soldiers were killed in an attack at the Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir.

• Aug 6th, 2012 ''Curiosity'', the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars.ref name=MarsScienceLaboratory
• Aug 6th, 2011 2011 Syrian uprising: The Gulf Co-operation Council urges an end to the ampquotbloodshedampquot in Syria, and calls for reforms.
• Aug 6th, 2010 The controversial ContactPoint database of children is being discontinued by the incoming coalition government in the United Kingdom.
• Aug 6th, 2009 Rosa Gumataotao Rios swears in as the 43rd US Treasurer.
• Aug 6th, 2008 Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, a military junta, organizes a coup d’etat in Mauritania to overthrow Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
• Aug 6th, 2007 American Home Mortgage files for bankruptcy

August 6th marks the 217th day of year the Gregorian calendar;

There are 147 days remaining until the end of the year.

What day of the week is August 6th?

On August 6th, 2023 the day of the week is Sunday.

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