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.
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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