History for August 6

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Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809

• 1787 - At the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia debate began on the first draft of the U.S. Constitution.
• 1890 - Cy Young achieved his first major league victory. He would accumulate 511 in his career.
• 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.
• 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.