August 06

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1890	At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.	Pony	Electric Chair	Threadwaxing Space Live: the Presidential Compilation '93-94
2.	1926	Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.	Major Organ and the Adding Machine	Swimming, Laughing, Playing	Major Organ and the Adding Machine
3.	1926	In New York City, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.	Nougaro	Les Don Juan	Grand Angle Sur
4.	1945	World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.	Nektar	Little Boy	Down to Earth
5.	1964	Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.	Single Frame	Lost Pines (Dream and Body)	Body/End/Basement
6.	1991	Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.	Hawkwind	Web Weaver	Hall of the Mountain Grill
7.	1996	NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.	Francoise Hardy	Le Martien	La Question

(Historical facts about August 6 are from Wikipedia.)