Today is Tuesday, August 6: day 219 of the Gregorian year. The year will end in 147 days.
The sun will rise at 4:45 Moscow time, and at 20:27 it will go below the horizon. At 12:36 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 15 hours 42 minutes, and darkness will last 8 hours 18 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 7 after Pentecost. No fast. Day of remembrance of the martyr Christina of Tire, the martyrs, the faithful princes Boris and Gleb, and in holy baptism Roman and David.
Name days: Anatoly, Afanasy, Boris, Gleb, David, Ivan, Hilarion, Christina, Nikolay, Polikarp, Roman, Christina.
Secular holidays
Today, Russia celebrates Railway Troops Day.
August 6 is World Day for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons.
Bolivia celebrates Independence Day, and Argentina celebrates Children's Day.
Events of August 6
In 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on the Russian Empire as part of World War I.
In 1915, the legendary “attack of the dead” took place near the Osowiec fortress (now Poland).
In 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
In 1969, the Mi-12 helicopter set a world record by lifting more than 40 tons of payload to a height of 2,255 m.
In 1996, Chechen militants began an assault on the city of Grozny.
In 2012, the Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars.
Who was born on August 6th
In 1881, Nobel Prize winner and scientist Alexander Fleming, who created the antibiotic penicillin, was born.
In 1963, the famous hacker and programmer Kevin Mitnick was born.
In 1974, actress Natalia Korennaya was born.
In 1981, actress Irina Rakhmanova was born.
In 1985, actress and TV presenter Yanina Studilina was born.
Folk omens
A sunny and warm day foretells a very cold winter.
Heavy rain promises plenty of snow in winter.
It will be warm and sunny soon if the flies are buzzing and swarming in the morning.
The weather will soon turn bad if the wind blows from the south.
