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Events, deaths, births, of AUG 06 [For Aug 06 Julian go to Gregorian date: 1583~1699: Aug 16 1700s: Aug 17 1800s: Aug 18 1900~2099: Aug 19] |
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2002 Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, de 72 años, jura a la presidencia de Bolivia, a la que vuelve después de cinco años, después de ganar las elecciones de junio y su ratificación en el Congreso. Su acompañante de fórmula Carlos Mesa, en su condición de vicepresidente de la nación es presidente del Congreso. La ceremonia tuvo lugar ante la representación parlamentaria más diversa y enfrentada que haya conocido el Poder Legislativo. El presidente saliente es Jorge Quiroga. 2002 At the Trevi fountain in Rome, waiting police arrest Roberto Cercelletta, after he arrives at 05:30 and, as he has for years, gathers the coins he finds there. Thousands of tourists stand with their backs to the Renaissance masterpiece and throw coins over their shoulders into the fountain, at the feet of Neptune, every day in the hope they will return to Rome. Cercelletta this day gets 22 kg of coins worth about $1000. In the slow tourist season he gets less, but it is estimated that charities, which are supposed to get the money, are losing some $12'000 a month. Cercelletta has been fined him in the past, but because he is homeless and unemployed, he has gotten away without paying. But recent media attention led police to make the arrest. 2002 Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal, and Nitin Saxena, of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, present a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm that determines whether an input number is prime or composite: http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/news/primality.pdf 2001 Hugo Banzer, 75, resigns his office of President of Bolivia one year before the end of his 5-year term, because of cancer. He took a few days off from chemoterapy in the US to go to Bolivia for the transfer of power to Vice President Jorge Quiroga, 41, who will be constitutionally barred from running for president in the summer of 2002. Banzer was dictator from 1971 to 1978, and ran in every democratic election of the 1980s and 1990s until he was finally elected president in 1997 with just 20% of the vote. 1998 The Egyptian Jihad sends a warning: they will soon deliver a message to Americans "which we hope they read with care, because we will write it, with God's help, in a language they will understand." (the message comes the next day)
1996 Chechen patriots retake Grozny from the Russian aggresssors. 1995 Ciudades del mundo aprovechan la conmemoración del 50 aniversario de la catástrofe de Hiroshima y Nagasaki para protestar contra la reanudación de los ensayos nucleares en el Pacífico por parte de Francia. 1995 Reconquistada Petrinja, el Gobierno croata proclama el restablecimiento de su soberanía sobre Krajina: 118 croatas muertos, 620 heridos y 12.000 prisioneros de guerra krajineses. 1993 Con la elección del candidato de la oposición Morihiro Hosokawa como primer ministro, la Dieta del Japón pone fin a 38 años de poder del Partido Liberal Demócrata. 1993 Tie-breaking VP vote passes Clinton's budget in the US Senate. The score was 50 to 50 until Al Gore casts the deciding vote. 1992 The Federal Communications Commission votes to allow Cox Enterprises and Telecommunications to purchase Merrill Lynch's teleport unit. The move signals the FCC's intention to allow cable television companies to provide phone services. The policy clears the way for the development of cable modems in the mid-1990s. 1991 Peugeot SA announces its withdrawal from the United States market, due to lagging sales. The major French automotive manufacturer and holding company has been in existence since 1896 and is presently headquartered in Paris.
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1989 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines
1988 Firebombing of the US Cultural Center in Kwangju, South Korea. 1986 Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for the IBM 1984 203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange 1983 Los partidos de oposición chilena forman la Alianza Democrática.
1965 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, outlawing the literacy test for voting eligibility in the South. The test had been abused to deny Blacks the vote.
1959 Se declara ilegal el Partido Comunista en Argentina. 1944 Deportation of 70'000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins 1942 The Soviet city of Voronezh falls to the German army. 1934 US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915. |
1914 Serbia declares war against Germany 1904 The Japanese army in Korea surrounds a Russian army retreating to Manchuria. 1902 Coronación de Eduardo VII como rey de Inglaterra. 1896 Una ley francesa declara la anexión de Madagascar. 1873 España hace extensivas a Puerto Rico las libertades consagradas en su Constitución de 1869. 1870 White conservatives suppressed black vote & captured Tenn legislature 1864 Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bay 1863 The CSS Alabama captures the USS Sea Bride near the Cape of Good Hope. 1863 Siege of Fort Wagner, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina continues 1862 CSS ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack and is scuttled near Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1854 Congress passes Confiscation Act 1846 US Treasury Secretary Robert J. Walker, 45, reinstates the Independent Treasury System. Walker also inaugurates a system for warehousing imports that endures to this day. 1840 El futuro emperador Napoleón III de Francia, desembarca en la playa de Vimereux, cerca de Boulogne, para derrocar al gobierno francés y hacerse con el poder, pero será detenido junto a sus cómplices. 1837 The Dow Industrial Average reaches the peak of a rise that started on May 31, during which it gained 37.93 points, inspiring false hopes that the nation would soon recover from the bank-induced panic of '37.
1824 En la batalla de Junín, las tropas de Simón Bolívar vencen al ejército del Virrey del Perú, por lo que Perú y Bolivia se independizan de España. 1815 US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli 1813 Simón Bolívar entra en Caracas tras la victoria de Taguanes. En esta fecha recibe el nombre de Libertador. 1811 Las Cortes de Cádiz decretan la abolición de todos los señoríos jurisdiccionales de España. 1801 The Great Religious Revival of the American West begins at a Presbyterian camp meeting in Cane Ridge, Kentucky. 1792 Desfilan por París 600 republicanos escogidos de Marsella cantando una canción nueva cuyos acentos, en pocas semanas, han de arrastrar al país entero: "La Marsellesa".
1726 Russia becomes part of the Treaty of Vienna (signed 1725) and puts 30'000 soldiers at the disposal of her allies in return for support against a possible war with the Ottoman Empire. 1497 John Cabot returns to England after his first successful journey to the Labrador coast. 1181 Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers. |
Deaths which
occurred on an August 06: 2002:: 35 pilgrims, including 10 children, in Zinapecuaro, Mexico, in bus, whose brakes failing, goes through a toll booth and crashes into a concrete wall. Some 20 are injured. The 26-year-old Costa Grande bus was taking members of the conservative Luz del Mundo church, from the state of Guerrero, to a a re-enactment of the Last Supper in Guadalajara. 2002 Ali Ajouri, 23, and Murat Marshut, 19, both of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, shot by Israeli troops in Jabaa, West Bank. Israel says that Ajouri sent two suicide bombers who killed three foreign workers and two Israelis in Tel Aviv on 17 July 2002. The Reuters body count of the al-Aqsa intifada stands at at least 1484 Palestinians and 585 Israelis. 2002 Nine Hindu pilgrims and one of the half-dozen Muslim attackers who, before dawn, throw a hand grenade and shoot in the pilgrimage transit camp in Nunwan, Indian-occupied Kashmir. Police return fire. 27 pilgrims are wounded. 2001 General Duong Van big Minh, 86, in Pasadena, California, from a fall suffered the previous day. He was South Vietnam's president when on 30 April 1975 it surrendered unconditionally to to the Vietcong's Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam. A military adviser (1962–63) to President Diem, he helped to overthrow Diem in 1963. He was head of government (1963–64), after which he went into exile. Minh returned in 1968, serving as an opposition leader against President Thieu. A presidential candidate in 1971, Minh withdrew, charging election rigging. After Nguyen Van Thieu fled the country on 21 April 1975, his successor transferred his powers to Big Minh on 28 April 1975, in an unsuccessful conciliation effort but Minh was placed in detention after the Communist takeover. 2000 Many sprats which rain down, freshly dead, on the fishing port of Great Yarmouth, in the east England county of Norfolk, after being sucked up by a waterspout.
1986 William J. Schroeder, after living 620 days with the Jarvik 7 artificial heart. 1980 Marino Marini, Italian painter and sculptor, born on 27 February 1901 in Pistoia. He studied at the Academy of Art in Florence. In Paris 1928-29, and from 1929-40 taught at the School of Art at the Villa Reale in Monza. In 1940 he became Professor of Sculpture at the Brera in Milan. Lived and worked in Milan and Forte dei Marmi. LINKS Horses and rider (color lithograph) 1978 Paul VI, 80, Pope since 1963, of heart attack, at summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. 1973 Fulgencio Batista, ex presidente y dictador de Cuba.
1925 Ricci-Curbastro, mathematician
1923 Luigi Rossi, Swiss artist born on 10 March 1853. 1875 Gabriel García Moreno, político ecuatoriano. 1874 Jim Reed, outlaw, killed by a member of his gang for reward money. Reed's widow Belle (née Myra Maybelle Shirley) would marry two years later Reed's bandit mentor, Cherokee Tom Starr, and become know as the Bandit Queen. Both Belle and Starr would separately die shot within a few years. 1867 Faustin-Élie Soulouque emperor of Haiti, dies (birth date unknown)
1702 Claude Huillot, French artist born in 1632. 1694 Antoine Arnauld, 82, mathematician. 1660 Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spain's greatest Baroque era painter, baptized as an infant on 06 June 1599. MORE ON VELAZQUEZ AT ART 4 AUGUST LINKS — Self~Portrait Self-portrait (1640) Self Portrait (1643) — Christ in the House of Martha and Mary — Las Meninas _ detail 1 _ detail 2 La Rendición de Breda (Las Lanzas) _ detail 1 _ detail 2 _ detail 3 Doña Mariana of Austria, Queen of Hungary Mort de St. Joseph El Dios Marte Reunión De Bebedores. Retrato de un Anciano El Niño De Vallecas Esopo. Retrato de un Viejo Descamisado La Familia Retrato de UN Enano de Felipe The Infanta Doña Margarita de Austria Portrait of the Infanta Margarita Infante Philip Prosper _ detail (dog) Christ on the Cross The Immaculate Conception — Philip IV in Army Dress _ Philip IV in Army Dress (The portrait of Fraga) Philip IV in Brown and Silver Philip IV Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV King Philip IV as a Huntsman Cardinale Infante Ferdinand of Austria as Hunter Prince Baltasar Carlos as Hunter Prince Baltasar Carlos on Horseback Breakfast Peasants at the Table (El Almuerzo) The Adoration by the Magi Christ in the House of Mary and Martha Abbess Jerónima de la Fuente The Supper at Emmaus Philip IV Doña Maria de Austria, Queen of Hungary The Drinkers (The Rule of Bacchus) Joseph's Bloody Coat Brought to Jacob The Forge of Vulcan Sibyl Christ on the Cross The Count-Duke of Olivares on Horseback Juan Martínez Montáñez Buffoon Barbarroja The Dwarf Don Juan Calabazas The Dwarf Francisco Lezcano, Called "El Niño de Vallecas" Court Dwarf Don Antonio El Inglés The Dwarf Sebastian de Morra Diego de Acedo (El Primo) Aesop Menippus The Coronation of the Virgin Portrait of a Man Pope Innocent X a different Portrait of Innocent X Juan de Pareja Las Hilanderas Venus at her Mirror (The Rokeby Venus) View of Zaragoza The Pavilion Ariadné in the Médici Gardens in Rome Sunshine The Entrance to the Grotta in the Médici Gardens in Rome Noon The Breakfast (1620, version 1 _ version 2), Bacchus Joseph and His Brothers Saints Anthony and Paul Old Woman Frying Eggs Three Men at Table The Waterseller in Seville Mother Jerónima de la Fuente The Adoration by the Magi The Forge of Vulcan Joseph’s Bloody Coat Brought to Jacob Venus at her Mirror The Fable of Arachne. Velázquez commemorative postal stamps. 1002 El amir cordobés Almanzor ibn Abí, durante la Batalla de Calatañazor, enfrentamiento entre una coalición navarro-castellana y las tropas amiridas. 0768 (or 769?) Constantine II, anti-Pope. Even before Paul I's death (28 June 767) trouble began about the election of his successor. Duke Toto of Nepi with a body of Tuscans burst into Rome, and, despite the opposition of the primicerius (chief of the notaries) Christopher, forcibly intruded his brother Constantine, a layman, into the chair of Peter (5 July 767). In the spring of 768, however, Christopher and his son Sergius contrived to escape from the city, and with the aid of the troops sent to Rome by Lombard king Desiderius, killed Toto and blinded and deposed the usurper, who had . failed to win support from the Carolingian king Pépin III le Bref or from the Franks. Constantine's deposition was canonically ratified by a council of Italian and Frankish bishops. 0523 Saint Hormisdas, 52nd Pope 0258 Saint Sixtus II, 24th Pope 133 a. C Los defensores de Numancia, tras siete años de resistencia, queman la ciudad y se arrojan a las llamas antes que rendirse a los romanos. |
Births which occurred on
an August 06:
1944 Darío Morales, pintor, grabador y escultor colombiano. 1934 Landelino Lavilla, abogado español, ex presidente del Congreso de los Diputados y de UCD.
MORE ON HODGKIN AT ART 4 AUGUST LINKS Nick's Room [no more detail than in a postage stamp] After Corot Small Henry Moore at the Bottom of the Garden Rain in the Palazzo A Storm
1916 Richard Hofstadter, physicist who won the Nobel prize in 1961 for his studies of neutrons and protons. 1914 Julio Cortázar, escritor francés nacido en Bélgica, impulsor de la literatura iberoamericana. 1911 Lucille Désirée Ball (Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: I Love Lucy [1952, 1953], The Lucy Show [1966-67, 1967-68], 12th Annual Atlas Governor's Award [1988-89]; The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour, Yours, Mine and Ours, Mame). Lucille Ball died on 26 April 1989. 1906 Gerardo Molina Ramírez, ideólogo y político colombiano. 1894 Joseph Lacasse, French artist who died on 226 October 1975. 1893 Jacques Martin-Ferrières, French artist who died in 1972. 1883 Scott Nearing US sociologist/pacifist/author (The Good Life) 1881 Sir Alexander Fleming (Scottish Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist [1954]: discovered penicillin in 1928). 1872 George Hand Wright, US artist who died in 1951. 1868 Paul-Louis-Charles-Marie Claudel France, diplomat, poet (Cinq grandes odes 1910), playwright (La Ville 1890, L'Echange 1893, Le Repos du septième jour 1896, Partage de midi 1906, L'Otage 1911, L'Annonce faite à Marie 1912, Le Pain dur 1918, Le Père humilié 1916<, Le Soulier de satin 1924), author of oratorios (Le Livre de Christophe Colomb 1933, Jeanne d'Arc 1938) essayist, a towering force in French literature of the first half of the 20th century, whose works derive their lyrical inspiration, their unity and scope, and their prophetic tone from his faith in God. Claudel died on 23 February 1955. Paul Claudel, escritor católico francés. 1866 Plinio Nomellini, Italian artist who died in 1943. 1862 Armand André Louis Rassenfosse, Belgian artist who died in 1934. 1827 José Manuel Marroquín Ricaurte, político, escritor y filólogo colombiano. 1811 Judah P. Benjamin, first Jewish US Senator, pro-slavery (LA-1852-1861). Confederate Attorney General, then Secretary of War, then Secretary of State. Then prominent lawyer in England. Wrote Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property (1868)
1697 Charles VII Holy Roman emperor (1742-45)
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