On This Day: August 6

6 verified moments happened on August 6. Here they are in the order they actually happened — the same kind of puzzle you solve in Whensly every day.

1. 1926 Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English ChannelSports · Source: HISTORY 'Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim English Channel, August 6, 1926'
2. 1991🌐 Tim Berners-Lee publicly announces the World Wide Web project, putting the first website online at CERN.Technology · Source: CERN, 'A short history of the web' (Aug 6 1991)
3. 1999👻 The Sixth Sense opens, with a boy who sees dead people confiding in a child psychologist before its famous twist.Movies & TV · Source: Wikipedia; Variety (Aug 6 1999)
4. 2012🔴 NASA's Curiosity rover touches down in Gale Crater on Mars after a daring sky-crane descent.History · Source: Wikipedia, 'Curiosity (rover)' (Aug 6 2012)
5. 2015🎭 Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton opens on Broadway, a hip-hop retelling of the founding father that becomes a sensation.Movies & TV · Source: Playbill, opens at Richard Rodgers Theatre (Aug 6 2015)
6. 2021🇨🇦 Julia Grosso converts the deciding penalty as Canada outlasts Sweden in a shootout for its first Olympic soccer gold.Soccer · Source: Sports Illustrated; NPR (Aug 6 2021)