MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · August 6
THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 6
August 6 in history
1918 — Second Marne
15 Jul-6 Aug 1918 — The last German offensive dies on the Marne; three days later Foch’s counterstroke — French, American, British divisions and 350 tanks — erases the salient. The initiative changes hands for the last time.
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1945
8:15 a.m., Hiroshima. One aircraft, one bomb, one city. The nuclear age begins with roughly 70,000 dead by nightfall.
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