Historical timeline for August 6

A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.

NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

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

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

A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.

Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam, killing 229 of the 254 people on board.

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

Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.

Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet.

Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.

Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy, outlawing the Communist Party of Chile and banning 26,650 persons from the electoral lists, is repealed in Chile.

After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.

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.

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.

Estonia is annexed by the Soviet Union.