August 6, 2023: This Day in History
Release time:
2023-08-07
August 6, 1660: Death of Diego Velázquez, the greatest painter of the late Spanish Renaissance.
August 6, 1806: The Holy Roman Empire dissolved.
August 6, 1825: Bolivia declared independence.
August 6, 1863: Shi Dakai, a leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was killed.
August 6, 1864: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation was founded.
August 6, 1915: German forces occupied Warsaw during World War I.
August 6, 1926: A woman swam across the English Channel for the first time.
August 6, 1930: The General Action Committee, the highest institution commanding the nationwide armed uprising, was established.
August 6, 1931: The Third Anti-Encirclement Campaign began.
August 6, 1932: The Venice International Film Festival, the earliest international film festival, was founded.
August 6, 1935: Fang Zhimin was killed.
August 6, 1940: The Baltic states joined the Soviet Union.
August 6, 1945: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
August 6, 1947: The Northwest Field Army launched the Yulin Campaign.
August 6, 1952: The finances of New China achieved a balance between revenue and expenditure for the first time.
August 6, 1954: The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps was established in New China.
August 6, 1980: Research on artificial blood was successfully conducted in Shanghai, China.
August 6, 1991: The world's first web page was created.
August 6, 1997: A South Korean passenger plane crashed in Guam.
August 6, 1997: Microsoft and Apple announced a cooperation plan.
August 6, 2006: China and Chad officially resumed diplomatic relations.
August 6, 2006: Tens of thousands of Indonesians participated in an anti-war demonstration.
August 6, 2009: The largest flood peak on the Yangtze River in five years passed through the dam safely.
August 6, 2010: Komorowski was sworn in as the new president of Poland.
August 6, 2015: Ning Zetao won the gold medal in the men's 100m freestyle at the World Championships.
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