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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_6" title="August 6">August 6</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/686" title="686">686</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Fitna" title="Second Fitna">Second Fitna</a>: Pro-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alids" title="Alids">Alid</a> forces defeated the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umayyad_Caliphate" title="Umayyad Caliphate">Umayyad Caliphate</a> in the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khazir" title="Battle of Khazir">Battle of Khazir</a></b>, allowing them to take control of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosul" title="Mosul">Mosul</a> in present-day Iraq.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892" title="1892">1892</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abir_Congo_Company" title="Abir Congo Company">Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company</a></b> was founded in Antwerp to exploit <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rubber" title="Natural rubber">natural rubber</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State" title="Congo Free State">Congo Free State</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930" title="1930">1930</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Supreme_Court" title="New York Supreme Court">New York Supreme Court</a> judge <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Force_Crater" title="Joseph Force Crater">Joseph Force Crater</a></b> disappeared in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, in a case that was never solved.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996" title="1996">1996</a> – Researchers announced that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite" title="Meteorite">meteorite</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001" title="Allan Hills 84001">ALH84001</a></b>, discovered in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills" title="Allan Hills">Allan Hills</a> of Antarctica, may contain evidence of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars" title="Life on Mars">life on Mars</a>, but further tests were inconclusive.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013" title="2013">2013</a> – A gas leak <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Rosario_gas_explosion" title="2013 Rosario gas explosion">caused an explosion</a></b> that collapsed a building and led to the deaths of 22 people in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosario,_Santa_Fe" title="Rosario, Santa Fe">Rosario</a>, Argentina.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josias_I,_Count_of_Waldeck-Eisenberg" title="Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg">Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1588); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Simon_(sociologist)" title="Maria Simon (sociologist)">Maria Simon</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1918); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniru_Conteh" title="Aniru Conteh">Aniru Conteh</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1942); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Yeoh" title="Michelle Yeoh">Michelle Yeoh</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1962)</p>