This Day in History

August 6th in History

Hiroshima bombed! In other news, Judge Crater disappears and NASA's Curiosity lands on Mars. Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alexander Fleming, Lucille Ball, and Andy Warhol are born; Bix Beiderbecke, Richard Bong, and John Hughes die. Happy Kadooment Day!

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Quote of the Day

"Anti-intellectualism...has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering of hemlock, in another of town-and-gown riots, in another of censorship and regimentation, in still another of Congressional investigations."

Richard Hofstadter, historian born August 6, 1916