AUGUST 6
1945:The crew of the American bomber Enola Gay — named for the
mother of pilot Paul Tibbets — drops an atom bomb nicknamed Little Boy
over Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb contains more power than 12,000 tons of
TNT and instantly kills more than 70,000 people; tens of thousands of
others will perish from burns and the effects of radiation.
1952: At age 46, Satchel Paige of the St. Louis Browns becomes the oldest pitcher to complete a Major League Baseball
shutout, throwing a 12-inning 1-0 win over the Detroit Tigers. Although
Paige will remain the oldest pitcher to play in an MLB game, Phil
Niekro of the New York Yankees in 1985 and Jamie Moyer of the
Philadelphia Phillies in 2010 will surpass his oldest shutout record.
1991: British computer scientist and MIT professor Tim
Berners-Lee posts the first public pages on the fledgling World Wide
Web, beginning the history of a little thing known as the Internet.
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