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What happened on August 6 in American history
August 6 is the 218th day of the year (the 219th in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 5 stories from August 6 spanning 1862 to 1990. Among them: in 1862, Her engines dead, the crew burns the Arkansas rather than let the Union take her; and in 1945, the Enola Gay drops the first atomic bomb used in war on Hiroshima.
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Her engines dead, the crew burns the Arkansas rather than let the Union take her
The Confederacy's lone ram on the lower Mississippi goes up in flames within sight of Baton Rouge.
1945
The Enola Gay drops the first atomic bomb used in war on Hiroshima
Three-quarters of the city is gone within seconds; the pilot named the plane for his mother.
1960
Havana seizes American holdings; Washington cancels the sugar quota within a day
By year's end every U.S. company on the island answers to Castro's government instead of its own board.
1965
Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act; literacy tests are now outlawed nationwide
Five months after troopers attacked marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the federal government takes oversight of Southern voter rolls.
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UN votes a total embargo on Iraq; Kuwait is now four days occupied
The Security Council cuts off trade with Baghdad and demands an immediate, unconditional withdrawal.
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