1945
Today was the day when, at the end of the second World War, the U.S. dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, Japan by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay". A sad day in history.
1961
Vostok 2 was launched - Gherman Titov, the second Soviet cosmonaut to enter space, was the first human to spend the full day in Earth's orbit, saying that he was "feeling splendid." He was the first to sleep in space, for 7.5 hours, but also experienced the first reported motion sickness in space.
1981
FLTSATCOM (fleet satellite communications) was launched from Cape Canaveral, and would fail.
1996
After an examination of the meteorite ALH84001 (thought to be from Mars), NASA announced the possibility that life may have once existed on the Red Planet.
2012
The largest Mars rover, Curiosity lands on Mars at 1:17 EDT.
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