Today in History for 6th August 2022

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Historical Events

1962 - Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule
1965 - Beatles release their 5th UK album - "Help!"
1981 - Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron freed
1985 - 19th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-G): Challenger 8 lands at Edwards AFB
1989 - Boston Red Sox retire Baseball Hall of Fame left fielder, 1st baseman Carl Yastrezemski's #8
1994 - Algerian Muslim fundamentalists threaten school/Universities

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Famous Birthdays

1180 - Go-Toba, 82nd Emperor of Japan, born in Kyōto, Japan (d. 1239)
1922 - Freddie Laker, CEO (Laker airlines)
1943 - Jon Postel, American computer scientist (d. 1998)
1960 - Aldo Jones [Albert Mansis], American rockabilly bassist and singer (Ben Vaughn Combo), born in Yonkers, New York (d. 2001)
1978 - Marisa Miller, American model
1995 - Amy Forsyth, Canadian actress (The Gilded Age, CODA), born in Ontario

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Famous Deaths

1666 - Tsjerk Hiddes de Vries, Dutch admiral, dies in battle at 43
1895 - George Frederick Root, American songwriter (The Battle Cry of Freedom), dies at 74
1986 - William J Schroeder, (longest-survivor with permanent artificial) heart, dies at 54, after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump)
1991 - Roland Michener, 20th Governor General of Canada (1967-74), dies at 91
1996 - Muhammad al-Badr, magnate of Northern Yemen (1962), dies
2018 - Joël Robuchon, French chef, world record for Michelin stars (32), dies of cancer at 73

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Nothing mentioned about that atomic bomb back in 1945.

"On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. " history.com