aug 6, 1945 - Atomic bombs dropped

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This marks the day that the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan - killing at least 70,000 people. Three days later, yet another was dropped on Nagasaki, which killed at least another 40,000. Five days after the second bomb, Japan surrendered, and World War II had officially come to a close.

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