National History
various sources
August 6, 1945 - The U.S Bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
August 9, 1945 - A second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
August 6, 1965 - President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks in attendance. Aside from the signing of the act, there was an unintended consequence…