| General Information for August 6th 2015 |
| There are 4 public holidays today. |
| Day 218 of 2015 |
| 147 days left in 2015 |
| Week 32 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web, which debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet. |
| 1945 - World War II: Hiroshima, Japan 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. |
| 1926 - Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel. |
| 1861 - The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria. |