History for August 6

History for August 6 - On-This-Day.com
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809, Louella Parsons 1881, Sir Alexander Fleming 1881


Lucille Ball 1911, Robert Mitchum 1917, Andy Warhol 1928


1787 - At the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia debate began on the first draft of the U.S. Constitution.


1945 - The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed. (8:16am Japanese time)


1960 - Nationalization of U.S. and foreign-owned property in Cuba began.


1965 - The Voting Rights Act was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.


1981 - Fire fighters in Indianapolis, IN, answered a false alarm. When they returned to their station it was ablaze due to a grease fire.


1986 - William J. Schroeder died. He lived 620 days with the Jarvik-7 manmade heart. He was the world's longest surviving recipient of a permanent artificial heart.


1996 - NASA announced the discovery of evidence of primitive life on Mars. The evidence came in the form of a meteorite that was found in Antarctica. The meteorite was believed to have come from Mars and contained a fossil.


1998 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with U.S. President Clinton.