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| August 6th, 2001 | Event | White House briefing entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. delivered to George W. Bush. This document foreshadowed the September 11, 2001 attacks. |
| August 6th, 2000 | Event | The Roman Catholic Church s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under Prefect Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, publishes Dominus Iesus, notable for its lack of the filioque clause in the Latin text of the Nicene Creed. |
| August 6th, 1997 | Event | Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228. |
| August 6th, 1996 | Event | NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms. |
| August 6th, 1993 | Event | According to Japanese government and Tokyo Broadcasting System networks report, heavy massive rain and debris blow occurred at widely Kagoshima and Aira area, Kyushu, Japan, killing 72. |
| August 6th, 1991 | Event | Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Weborn in WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet. |
| August 6th, 1991 | Event | Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan s first female speaker of the House of Representatives. |
| August 6th, 1990 | Event | Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq s invasion of Kuwait. |
| August 6th, 1986 | Event | 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. |
| August 6th, 1976 | Event | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays foundation-stone of Port Qasim, Karachi. |
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