Isn't it amazing how every day of the year(maybe?) has an event that occurred or took place in a previous year ? well anywho heres what happened today over the course of "HISTORY" August 6th
1926 | Gertrude Ederle became the first U.S. woman to swim across the English Channel.
1945 | The first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
1962 | Jamaica gained its independence within the Britain Commonwealth.
1965 | President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed the poll taxes and literacy tests that had restricted black voter registration in the South.
1997 | British prime minister Tony Blair and Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams meet—the first time in 76 years that a British leader and an IRA ally meet.
2003 | Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy to replace Gray Davis as governor of California to Jay Leno on the Tonight Show.
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