On August 6, 1945, the United States becomes the first and only
nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it dropped an
atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Approximately
80,000 people were killed as a direct result of the blast, while
another 35,000 were injured. At least another 60,000 would be
dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout.

Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end
of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold
War.

CAMILLE
BOHANNON

Singer Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) is
95 today.

Tony Bennett has won 19 Grammy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award, presented in 2001) and two Primetime
Emmy Awards, and was named an NEA Jazz Master and a
Kennedy Center Honoree. Bennett has sold over 50 million
records worldwide.

In February 2021, it was revealed that Bennett was diagnosed
with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016. Due to the slow progression
of his illness, he has continued to record, tour, and perform.

SANDY KOZEL

Wiley Hardeman Post
(November 22, 1898 – August 15, 1935)

Charles Lindbergh takes off in the Spirit of St. Louis.

At 7:52 a.m., aviator Charles A. Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt
Field on Long Island, New York, on the world’s first solo, nonstop
flight across the Atlantic Ocean and the first ever nonstop flight
between New York to Paris.

Howard Robard Hughes Jr.
(December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976)

Howard Hughes was a business magnate and famed aviation
pioneer. He was one of the richest men to emerge from the
American West during the 20th century.

The largest wooden airplane ever constructed, and flown
only one time by Howard Hughes, the Spruce Goose.