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#OnThisDay in 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan—the blast killed more than 70,000 people and destroyed most of the city—in an effort to hasten the end of WWII. 📷U.S. Air Force
Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the ENOLA GAY, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, waves from his cockpit before the take-off, August 6, 1945.
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Thai businesswoman and politician Yingluck Shinawatra was elected prime minister of Thailand, #OnThisDay in 2011, becoming the first woman to hold that post. 📷Facundo Arrizabalaga—WPA/Getty Images
Yingluck Shinawatra Thailand Prime Minister Said to greet to the athletes at Thai government house on June 12, 2013 in Bangkok,Thailand
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#OnThisDay in 1992 at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee won the heptathlon, becoming the first person to win the event in consecutive Games. 📷Steven E. Sutton/Duomo
Jackie Joyner-Kersee throwing the javelin during the heptathlon at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea.
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Using the assassination of the Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand as a pretext to present Serbia with an unacceptable ultimatum, Austria-Hungary declared war on the Slavic country #OnThisDay in 1914, sparking World War I. 📷Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Black and white photo of a British soldier inside a trench on the Western Front during World War I, 1914-18.
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Indian lawyer and politician Pratibha Patil was sworn in as president of India #OnThisDay in 2007, becoming the first woman to hold the office. 📷Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs/U.S. Department of State
Pratibha Patil (Pratibha Devisingh Patil). The 12th and current President of the Republic of India and first woman to hold the office.
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Jennifer Lopez at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood. March 7, 2010 Los Angeles, CA
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American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world #OnThisDay in 1933; he covered 15,596 miles (25,099 km) in 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes. 📷Underwood & Underwood/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-87208)
Wiley Post. American pilot Wiley Post after his first around the world flight (June 23-July 1, 1931) with Harold Gatty in Winnie Mae a Lockheed Vega monoplane. Photo: July 6, 1931
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The world's lowest recorded temperature, −128.6 °F (−89.2 °C), was measured at Vostok Station, Antarctica #OnThisDay in 1983. 📷© David Merron Photography—Moment/Getty Images
Tourists on a boat float past icebergs in Antarctica.
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#OnThisDay in 1848, the women's suffrage movement in the U.S. was launched with the opening of the Seneca Falls Convention, which sought to gain certain rights & privileges for women, notably the right to vote. 📷photo credit in alt text
Photo composite - Seneca Falls Convention - portraits of Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederic Douglass, with Declaration of Sentiments Photo credit: © Kean Collection—Archive Photos/Getty Images, © Hulton Archive—Archive Photos/Getty Images, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., traveler1116—DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images; Photo illustration Encyclopædia Britann
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For her performance in the uneven parallel bars at the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci of Romania became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event #OnThisDay in 1976. 📷 Sportschrome/Newscom
Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci during the 1976 Summer Olympic Games, Montreal, Canada, 1976, where she won three gold medals.
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Apollo 11 lifted off #OnThisDay from
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The American flag heralds the flight of Apollo 11, the first Lunar landing mission. The Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle lifted off with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin (Buzz Aldrin), Jr., July 16, 1969, from Kennedy Space C
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British ethologist Jane Goodall first arrived at what became Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania #OnThisDay in 1960; there she conducted her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees. 📷NHPA/Superstock
Dr. Jane Goodall with eastern chimpanzees, (pan troglodytes schweinfurthii), at the Gombe National Park in Tanzania, Africa.
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#OnThisDay in 1985 the benefit concert Live Aid was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London & JFK Stadium in Philadelphia; it drew an estimated 1.5 billion television viewers & raised millions of dollars for famine relief in Ethiopia. 📷Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy
Queen front man Freddie Mercury performing at the Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium, London, England, July 13, 1985.
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In Chillicothe, Missouri, pre-sliced bread first went on sale #OnThisDay in 1928. The loaves, baked by a local company, were cut using a machine designed by Otto Rohwedder. 📷© David Dales/Dreamstime.com
Loaf of bread made from spelt wheat with sunflower seeds and lupin seeds
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The United States first issued the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin, making Anthony the first woman to be depicted on U.S. currency #OnThisDay in 1979. 📷History of Woman Suffrage Volume 1
Engraving of Susan B. Anthony
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