On August 6, 1806, the Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis II abdicated.

In 1809, one of the leading literary figures of the Victorian era, poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England.

In 1911, actress-comedian Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown, New York.

In 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia and Serbia declared war against Germany.

In 1945, during World War II, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb code-named “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan.

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.

In 1991, the World Wide Web made its public debut as a means of accessing webpages over the Internet.