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- 1890 6 Aug Murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair, at Buffalo, US.
- 1945 6 Aug An atom bomb is dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the US bomber 'Enola Gay'.
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