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August 6

 * 1862 - American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
 * 1914 - Ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea, beginning the First Battle of the Atlantic.
 * 1914 - Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia. World War I begins.
 * 1914 - Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I.
 * 1915 - World War I: The Battle of Sari Bair begins - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
 * 1945 - World War II: An atomic bomb, codenamed Little Boy, is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan killing an estimated 70,000–146,000 civilians.