THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 6
August 6 in history
What happened on August 6: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1918, 1945 and 1962, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Second Battle of the 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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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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— Kingston, Jamaica
1789–1962 — Britain’s richest sugar island and Saint-Domingue’s rival, with a quarter of a million enslaved people; Britain invaded Saint-Domingue from here in 1793. Slavery ended in 1834–38, and Jamaica became independent on 6 August 1962.
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