EST. DECEMBER 1994 β’ 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com π―
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
August 6
Thursday, August 6, 2026
Day 217 of 2026 | Week 32 | 142 days until Christmas π
HISTORIC EVENTS
A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.
NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'Γ©tat in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam, killing 229 of the 254 people on board.
NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet.
Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
American singer-songwriter ("I Hope Ur Miserable Until Ur Dead")
American actor (Insidious; Jurassic World)
Canadian actress (The Gilded Age
American actor (Signs of Love
American rock singer-songwriter (Liz Cooper & The Stampede)
American actor
American child beauty queen and murder victim
Belgian figure skater (8 x Belgian National Champion
British actress (I Capture the Castle; Atonement)
American stage actor and singer (Hamilton)
American alternative hip-hop artist (Gym Class Heroes)
Welsh soccer defender (12 caps; Sunderland
Taiwanese-American singer
American actress (Punky Brewster; Sabrina
American entrepreneur (Red Swoosh
π― yow.com Connection
On March 9, 1994 - just months before yow.com would be registered - the internet was still in its infancy. There were only about 3,000 websites in existence, and most people accessed the web through 14.4kbps dial-up modems. Today, you're visiting a domain that has survived 30+ years of that incredible evolution.
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