Today is Monday, August 06, the 218th day of 2018. There are 147 days left in the year.

1506 The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk 1661 The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic. 1777 American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix. 1806 Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, ending the Holy Roman Empire. 1825 Bolivia gains independence from Spain. 1901 Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.

1914 World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia. 1926 Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel. 1940 Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.

1945 World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb “Little Boy” is dropped by the United States B- 29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning. 1960 Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreignowned property in the nation. 1962 Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom. 1965 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. 1990 War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. 1991 Tim Berners- Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet. 1991 Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan’s first female speaker of the House of Representatives. 1996 The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA. 1996 Nasa announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life- forms. 2001 Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to a chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu. 2008 A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d’état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

2010 Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.