August 6th (1991) was a Tuesday. It's the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 147 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 6th August, 1991
» Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
Famous Birthdays on August 6 in 1991
» Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
August 6th Famous Deaths for 1991
» Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician, 74th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1915)
» Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (b. 1900)
» Harry Reasoner, American journalist, founded '60 Minutes' (b. 1923)
August 6th Holidays in History
» Christian Calendar of saints or Feast Day:
» Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus
» Justus and Pastor
» August 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony (Hiroshima, Japan)
» Public holidays in Bolivia known as Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bolivia from Spain in 1825.
» Public holidays in Jamaica called Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962.