On Aug. 6, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia, and Serbia declared war against Germany.
In 1917 actor Robert Mitchum was born in Bridgeport, Conn.
In 1928 artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol was born.
In 1945, during World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
In 1965 President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
In 1978 Pope Paul VI died at his Italian summer residence in Castel Gandolfo; he was 80.
In 1992 President George H.W. Bush granted full diplomatic recognition to the former Yugoslav republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia and Croatia.
In 1998 legendary sportscaster and announcer and Hall of Fame member Jack Brickhouse died in Chicago; he was 82.
