August 6: Independence Day in Bolivia (1825) and Jamaica (1962)
- 1806 - The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved when Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, was forced to abdicate.
- 1890 - William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in an electric chair.
- 1945 - World War II: Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress of the U.S. Army Air Force, dropped an atomic bomb named Little Boy (pictured) on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated 80,000 people.
- 1966 - Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan became emir and ruler of Abu Dhabi.
- 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee released files describing his idea for a "World Wide Web."