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Today The World Remembers The Bombing Of Hiroshima
August 6, 2009 at 10:16 AM |
by JetSetCD
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Sixty-four years ago today was the date that a little Japanese city by the name of Hiroshima entered the world's consciousness forever. It was on August 6, 1945 that the plane Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb, resulting in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare and over 140,000 deaths almost immediate deaths.
It also happens to be the 119th anniversary of the first death penalty executed by electric chair, so today isn't exactly the brightest of days.
