Daily Calendar for Thursday, August 6, 2026

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Alfred Lord Tennyson (poet) – 1809
The Duke of Argyll, Marquess of Lorne (Canadian Governor General 1878 - 1883) – 1845
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (U.S. First Lady) – 1861
Alexander Fleming (Scottish bacteriologist) – 1881
Scott Nearing (sociologist) – 1883
Lucille Ball (actress) – 1911
Robert Mitchum (actor) – 1917
Andy Warhol (artist) – 1928
M. Night Shyamalan (film director, writer, producer) – 1970

At Auburn Prison, Auburn, NY, William Kemmler became the first man to be executed by electrocution – 1890
Baseball pitcher Cy Young made his major league debut – 1890
Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel. She did it in record time, 14 hours and 31 minutes – 1926
The first atomic bomb, named Little Boy, was dropped out of an American B-29 bomber over the center of the city Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II. – 1945
Jamaica became independent – 1962
A miscalculation in a practice flight for an air show the following day caused a U.S. Blue Angel pilot to break the sound barrier. This, in turn, broke many windows in downtown Kelowna, British Columbia, and caused some injuries. – 1969
Microsoft and Apple agreed to share technology – 1997
Asteroids renamed to honor final Shuttle Columbia crew – 2003

Adair and Union counties in Iowa received 4 inches of hail – 1890
The temperature soared to 106 degrees F in Washington, D.C., and Maryland – 1918
Large hail, some softball size, struck areas of Colorado, including the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. Although hail was not quite softball size there, it injured 14 people, killed a 4-year-old muscovy duck named Daisy and a 13-year-old Cape vulture named Motswari, injured other animals, and damaged windows and an estimated 400 cars. The storm also knocked out power to nearly 2,000 customers in the region. – 2018