August 06th, 2021

Let us have a little bit of fun today and post about what happened on Aug.6th through history, who celebrates a birthday with you, and couple other categories. 

It's National:
National  Root Beer Float Day

Today in History:
1909 Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip
1919 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
1962 Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule
1964 Prometheus, the world's oldest tree aged at least 4,862 years old, is accidentally cut down in Nevada, USA
1979 Marcus Hooper, 12, becomes then youngest person to swim English Channel
1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1997 Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc
2015 World's largest ever Pinball tournament Pinburgh with 700 machines held in Pittsburgh
 
 Celebrities Birthdays:
Lucille Ball, American comedienne and actress
Michelle Yeoh, Chinese-Malaysian actress
Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist
Doug Ford, American golfer
Dino Bravo, Canadian professional wrestler
Thomas Jefferson, 200m runner
David Robinson, American NBA center
Geri Horner [Halliwell], British pop singer
Soleil Moon Frye, actress

Movies Released on this day:
1926 "Don Juan"

 Songs Released on this day:
2012 "Cruise"-Florida Georgia Line
 
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