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August 6

5 sourced moments from August 6 in history: Gertrude Ederle Became the First Woman to Swim the English Channel (1926); The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima (1945); Gherman Titov was the first person to sleep in space (1961), plus 2 more.

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5 things happened on August 6

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2012 Space · Space Exploration

Curiosity landed on Mars in 2012 and is still driving

NASA's Curiosity rover landed in Gale Crater in August 2012 on a two-year mission. Fourteen years later it is still climbing Mount Sharp.

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1991 Technology · The Internet

Tim Berners-Lee opened the World Wide Web to the public

A short newsgroup post invited anyone, anywhere to download the web's software and start linking the world.

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1961 Space · Space Exploration

Gherman Titov was the first person to sleep in space

On Vostok 2 in 1961 the Soviet cosmonaut woke to find his arms floating over the controls, tucked them away, and slept on 'like a baby.'

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1945 History · War & Conflict

The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima

At 8:15 a.m., a single uranium bomb leveled most of a city and opened the nuclear age.

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1926 Sports · Extreme Sports

Gertrude Ederle Became the First Woman to Swim the English Channel

She didn't just cross the Channel as the first woman, she did it faster than every man who had ever managed the feat before her.

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