HISTORY At A Glance

TODAY is Friday, August 6, the 218th day of 2021. There are 147 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1914 World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.

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.

1990 Gulf War: The United Nations Security

Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.

1996 NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

1997 Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 228 of 254 people on board.

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. 2011 War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, 7 Afghan soldiers, and 1 Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.