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On This Day (August 6): Your quick daily trip back in time.
Fatih Taskiran
August 06, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes
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🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning. It's Wednesday, Aug. 6, and we're discovering the first atomic bomb dropping, the first electric chair execution, the Voting Rights Act, the birth of the WWW, and much more.
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🚀 Time Machine
-1661 | Portugal purchased New Holland (Brazil) from the Dutch Republic for 63 tonnes of gold under the Treaty of The Hague. |
-1890 | Murderer William Kemmler became the first person to be executed by the electric chair at Auburn Prison in New York. |
-1926 | Warner Bros. released "Don Juan," the first feature-length film with synchronized musical score and sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. |
-1926 | 20-year-old Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel. |
-1945 | The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the first and only nation to use nuclear weapons during wartime. Approximately 80,000 people are killed, and another 35,000 are injured in the blast. Another 60,000 people would die by the end of the year from the fallout. |
-1965 | Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, prohibiting discrimination against minorities in voting. |
-1991 | Tim Berners-Lee published files outlining his concept for the World Wide Web and launched WWW as a publicly available service on the Internet. |
📷 Snapshot
Here's what New York City's Central Park looked like during the Great Depression, 1933
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💬 Final Words
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