Interesting and newsworthy facts about August 6, 1916
2006-08-05 14:59:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
The Washinton Senators beat the Chicago White Sox 2-1.
2006-08-05 15:08:20 · answer #1 · answered by phoephus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
August 6, 1916–August 17, 1916 At the Sixth Battle of the Isonzo in Italy, Italian forces advance and take Gorizia from Austro-Hungarian troops.
After Japanese leaders flatly rejected the Potsdam Declaration, President Truman authorized use of the atomic bomb anytime after August 3, 1945. On the clear morning of August 6, the first atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. Leveling over 60 percent of the city, 70,000 residents died instantaneously in a searing flash of heat. Three days later, on August 9, a second bomb, Fat Man, was dropped on Nagasaki.
2006-08-05 22:18:20 · answer #2 · answered by deecharming 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I checked the information on the history channel. Lots of things were going on in the world at that time. World War 1, the Mexican revolution, fighting in China. Makes conflicts going on today seem minor.
2006-08-05 22:30:21 · answer #3 · answered by Mr Cellophane 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff was born
2006-08-05 22:11:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋