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AUGUST 6? 1945 Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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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 wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of...

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GOOD NIGHT

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august 5 1962 – Apartheid in South Africa: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.

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Apartheid (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ɐˈpartɦɛit] ; an Afrikaans [1] word meaning "the state of being apart", literally "apart -hood") [2] [3] was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation by the National Party (NP), the...

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ON AUGUST 4/70 – The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_%28AD_70%29

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On Aug. 4, 1901, Louis Armstrong, the influential American jazz

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On Aug. 4, 1901, Louis Armstrong, the influential American jazz trumpeter, was born. Following his death on July 6, 1971, his obituary appeared in The Times. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0804.html

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AUGUST 4- 1914

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http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0804.html#articleOn Aug. 4, 1914, Britain declared war on Germany while the United States proclaimed its neutrality. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/august-4/?_r=0

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