August 6 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for August 6
In the headlines today:

2004	Funk singer Rick James is found dead at his Los Angeles home at age 56.
1991	TV news host Harry Reasoner dies in Norwalk, Connecticut, at age 68.
1986	Jarvik 7 artificial heart recipient William Schroeder dies, 620 days after the operation.
1978	Pope Paul VI dies at age 80. Photo shows Pope Paul VI (left) with US president Lyndon B. Johnson at the Vatican in December 1967. (photo credit: National Archives and Records Administration)
1945	An atomic bomb is released over Hiroshima, Japan, during WWII.
1941	The Allied invasion of North Africa begins, during WWII.
1926	Gertrude Ederle swims the English Channel -- the first American woman to do so.
1890	William Kemmler becomes the first convicted murderer executed in the electric chair (Auburn State Prison, NY).
1825	Bolivia declares its independence from Peru.
1806	Francis I abdicates the throne, ending the reign of Holy Roman Emperors.
1623	Anne (Mrs. William) Shakespeare, wife of the famous playwright, dies.