Friday, August 06, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

AUGUST 6
1890:Cy Young pitches and wins his first professional baseball game, helping the Cleveland Spiders to victory over the Chicago Colts.

1945: The American B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay drops “Little Boy”—the first nuclear bomb to be used in warfare—over Hiroshima, Japan. More than 140,000 people die.

1965: President Lyndon Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, outlawing the attempts of federal, state and local election officials to deny African Americans the right to vote.

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