2006-08-06 07:30:59 · 15 answers · asked by carlosmd b 2 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
On August 6, 1945 the nuclear weapon Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima by Enola Gay, a U.S. Air Force B-29 bomber which was altered specifically to hold the bomb, killing an estimated 200,000 people and heavily damaging 80% of the city.[citation needed] In the following months, an estimated 60,000 more people died from injuries or radiation poisoning.[citation needed] Since 1945, several thousand more hibakusha have died of illnesses caused by the bomb. It was the second such device to be detonated (the first being the successful test at the Manhattan Project's desert test site, in New Mexico), and the first ever to be used in military action. The American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were major factors that led to the Japanese surrender, and the official end of World War II.
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another american atrocity
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2006-08-06 07:36:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes! Carlos asked a question on Yahoo!
The US dropped a bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. And Andy Warhol was born in 1928. Both were events to change the course of the world as we know it.
Go to http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?category=leadstory for a bottomless pit of "This Day in History" events.
2006-08-06 07:35:02 · answer #2 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I woke up with a wicked hangover on a couch in a basement around 9:30am, had some breakfast, stayed in the washroom for a LOOOOONG time after that, had a cup of tea and caught a ride home at around noon.
2006-08-06 07:35:52 · answer #3 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On this day in 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, Japan.
On this day in 1991 the internet was invented.
2006-08-06 07:36:43 · answer #4 · answered by Dr. D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to the site below, save it and you can go everyday, and it will be updated. Be carefull at night time where the site is, it could be yesterday, today, or tomorrow; depending on your time zone.
2006-08-06 07:37:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots!
2006-08-06 07:34:31 · answer #6 · answered by Wounded duckmate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
August 6th 1945 - Hiroshima go BOOM!
2006-08-06 07:35:19 · answer #7 · answered by eggman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yup the world made it through one more day.
2006-08-06 07:34:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
on what day.
2006-08-06 07:35:25 · answer #9 · answered by kara 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Need more details.....DUH!!!!! You must be really bored or seriously need to get a life!!!!!
2006-08-06 07:50:38 · answer #10 · answered by herbie36f 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋