1890 - The Electric Chair is introduced as a form of execution in New York
1893 - The Corinth Canal opens
1911 - Lucille Ball born
1917 - Robert Mitchum born
1926 - Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel
1928 - Andy Warhol born
1945 - The first atomic bomb is dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
1961 - The Soviet Union astonishes the world by launching Major Gherman Titov into orbit for a whole day.
1962 - Michelle Yeoh born
1965 - David Robinson born
1971 - A British man becomes the first to sail the world non-stop in the "wrong" direction - east to west - against the prevailing winds and currents.
1972 - Geri Estelle Halliwell born
1987 - SDP leader Dr David Owen resigns after members of his party voted to merge with the Liberals.
1995 - Up to 50,000 people attend a memorial service in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on the 50th anniversary of the first atomic bombing.
2012 - Astronomer and Physicist Bernard Lovell dies aged 98.
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