Robert Mitchum 1917
- 1806 - The Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis II abdicated.
- 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.
- 1981 - Fire fighters in Indianapolis, IN, answered a false alarm. When they returned to their station it was ablaze due to a grease fire.
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