On This Day
August 6th
 

1835 Bolivia gains it's independence 1926 the first woman swims the English Channel. 1945 the Atom Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by the 'Enola Gay'.          Independence Day, celebrated in Bolivia.

Birthdays
 

1809 Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate of England. 1881 Sir Alexander Fleming, cashed in on penicillin