At 6 o'clock on the morning of August 12, they were in doubt no longer.

Following his return, Lincoln continued his campaign for the August 6 election for the Illinois General Assembly.

On August 6, 1861, Lincoln signed the Confiscation Act that authorized judiciary proceedings to confiscate and free slaves who were used to support the Confederate war effort.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

Andy Warhol ( né Andrej Varchola, Jr .) was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

** August 6 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

hif: 6 August

pag: August 6

sco: 6 August

simple: August 6

yo: 6 August

Benzene, C < sub > 6 </ sub > H < sub > 6 </ sub >, is the simplest aromatic hydrocarbon and was recognized as the first aromatic hydrocarbon, with the nature of its bonding first being recognized by Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz in the 19th century.

Alexander II ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Uilleim ) ( 24 August 1198 – 6 July 1249 ) was King of Scots from

Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS ( Eng ) ( 6 August 188111 March 1955 ) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.

Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield, a farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire, Scotland.

André Weil (; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998 ) was an influential French mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition.

Atle Selberg ( 14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007 ) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory.

*" Davy " Crockett ( August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836 ) was a 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician.

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

On Friday 6 August 2010 Woburn held a fundraising evening with extra activities and later opening times.

* Trying to Rule Britannia ; BBC ; 6 August 2004

Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky (, commonly transliterated as Khmelnytsky ; ; ) ( c. 1595 – 6 August 1657 ) was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( now part of Ukraine ).

The composer Manuel Robles and the poet Bernardo de Vera y Pintado fulfilled this mandate and their " National Song " debuted on 20 August 1820 in the Domingo Arteaga theater, although other historians claim that it was played and sung during the festivities of September 1819.

From there he led an army over the Andes and captured New Granada after a quick campaign that ended at the Battle of Boyacá, on August 7, 1819.

In 1819 a student radical assassinated the reactionary playwright August von Kotzebue, who had scoffed at liberal student organisations.

Herman Melville ( August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891 ) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.

Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, the third of eight children of Allan and Maria Gansevoort Melvill.

James Watt, FRS, FRSE ( 19 January 173625 August 1819 ) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

* 1761 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist and author ( d. 1819 )

Important literary precursors of Modernism were: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 81 ) ( Crime and Punishment ( 1866 ), The Brothers Karamazov ( 1880 ); Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 92 ) ( Leaves of Grass ) ( 1855 – 91 ); Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal ), Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ) ( Illuminations, 1874 ); August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), especially his later plays, including, the trilogy To Damascus 1898 – 1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ).

Laennec wrote the classic treatise De l ' Auscultation Médiate, published in August 1819.

* August 12 – Francesco Crispi, Italian Prime Minister ( born 1819 )

* August 12 – James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist ( b. 1819 )

* August 23 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer ( d. 1819 )

* May 3 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist ( d. 1819 )

* August – Henry Constantine Jennings, English gambler and collector ( d. 1819 )

* L ' apoteosi d ' Ercole ( 19 August 1819, Teatro S. Carlo, Naples )

Allan Pinkerton ( 25 August 1819 – 1 July 1884 ) was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

Pinkerton was born in the Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland, to William Pinkerton and his wife, Isobel McQueen, on August 25, 1819.

The Peterloo Massacre ( or Battle of Peterloo ) occurred at St Peter's Field, Manchester, England, on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a crowd of 60, 000 – 80, 000 that had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation.

Johnson wrote to the well-known radical orator Henry Hunt asking him to chair a large meeting planned for Manchester on 2 August 1819.

* 1819: Fryderyk August Schnierstein opens a tannery, the date is considered a start of towns industrialisation

Johnson's term in the House expired March 3, 1819, but by August, he had returned to the state legislature where he helped secure passage of a law that abolished imprisonment for debtors in Kentucky.

On 31 August 1819 Smith was released from King's Bench Prison in London, a debtor's prison.

Situated on the shores of the Little Manatee River, the town ( founded on August 7, 1908 ) and college were named after the English writer and social reformist John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ).

The village of Lucasville was laid out by Captain John Lucas in June 1819 and recorded August 7, 1819.