Historical Events for 6th August 2023

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1699 - HMS Roebuck, captained by William Dampier, lands at Shark Bay, Western Australia on the first British scientific expedition to Australia
1896 - France annexes Madagascar
1914 - Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I
1921 - Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins
1936 - Japanese athletes quinella the triple jump at the Berlin Olympics; Naoto Tajima wins gold and Masao Harada silver
1937 - MLB overturns New York Yankees' 7-6 win over Cleveland Indians because of umpire error
1945 - Atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay"
1983 - First NFL exhibition game in Europe; Minnesota Vikings beat St Louis Cardinals 28-10 at London's Wembley Stadium
1995 - Revival of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross' musical comedy '"Damn Yankees", starring Jerry Lewis and Bebe Neuwirth, closes at Marquis Theater, NYC, after 519 performances
2018 - Boston appoints its first African American Police Commissioner William G. Gross

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