Wikipedia:Main Page history/2015 August 6

Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back

• ... that the woman in Vilhelm Hammershøi's Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back (pictured) is the painter's wife, whom he often painted facing away from the viewer?
• ... that "Come and Get It" by John Newman was created with the intent that it be listened to while in the car?
• ... that professional Canadian football player David Beard played four positions in only three years at Bev Facey Community High School?
• ... that the history of
  Clement XIV, and of the convents by Napoleon
  ?
• ... that
  Stratton: First Into Action but left due to creative differences and was replaced by Dominic Cooper
  ?
• ... that brook trout are seven times as common in the lower reaches of
  Scotch Run
  as in its upper reaches?
• ... that Years & Years released an interactive music video for their song "Shine"?
• ... that the mayfly has come to symbolise the transitiveness and brevity of life?

The aircraft involved in Flight 370, pictured in 2011

• Structural debris found washed ashore on Réunion Island is confirmed to be from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing in March 2014 (aircraft pictured).
• At least 31 people die when a flash flood derails two trains in Madhya Pradesh, India.
• The International Olympic Committee selects Beijing as the host city of the 2022 Winter Games.
• The Taliban confirms that its former leader, Mohammed Omar, died in April 2013.
• Scientist and former President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam dies at the age of 83.

• Ongoing events
• Recent deaths
  :
  • Robert Conquest
  • Cilla Black
  • "Rowdy" Roddy Piper

August 6: Feast of the Transfiguration (Gregorian calendar); Independence Day in Jamaica (1962)

Crew of the Enola Gay

• 1506 – Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania achieved one of the greatest Lithuanian victories against the Tatars in the Battle of Kletsk.
• 1890 – At Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York, US, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in an electric chair.
• 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay (pictured with crew) dropped an atomic bomb named "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan, killing as many as 140,000 people.
• 1966 – Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan became emir and ruler of Abu Dhabi, succeeding his brother, Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who was deposed in a bloodless coup d'état.
• Metropolitan Police of London, thousands of mostly young males rioted in several London boroughs
  and in cities and towns across England.

• More anniversaries:
  • August 5
  • August 6
  • August 7