6 August AD939 Battle at Simancas
6 August 1601 Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius
6 August 1815 US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli
6 August 1824 Battle at Junan
6 August 1862 Confederate ironclad Arkansas is badly damaged
6 August 1864 Confederate forces evacuate Fort Powell
6 August 1870 Battle at Spicheren
6 August 1870 The Battle of Wörth
6 August 1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia
6 August 1914 French cavalry enters Belgium
6 August 1914 German Zeppelin bombs Liege
6 August 1914 Serbia declares war on Germany
6 August 1917 Battle of Mărăşeşti
6 August 1918 Second Battle of the Marne ends
6 August 1934 US troops leave Haiti
6 August 1942 The destroyer HMCS Assiniboine sinks U-210
6 August 2008 A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania
6 August 1943 US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina
6 August 1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
6 August 1965 Pakistani soldiers crossed the Line of Control into Kashmir
6 August 2011 A helicopter containing members of SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan
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