08-06-2005, 05:49 AM
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Location: Maryland
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August 6th
1637 ~ Death of Ben Jonson, English Writer.
1809 ~ Birthday of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet.
1881 ~ Birthday of Alexander Fleming, scientist.
1911 ~ Birthday of Lucille Ball, Actress, Comedienne.
1943 ~ Birthday of Jon Postel, creator of DNS.
1945 ~ World War II: A nuclear bomb codenamed Little Boy was dropped on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:15 a.m., killing 80,000.
1962 ~ Jamaica became independent.
1990 ~ Gulf War: The UN Security Council ordered a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1991 ~ Tim Berners-Lee released his idea for the "World Wide Web".
1991 ~ Death of Harry Reasoner, Reporter
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