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Important events of history that took place in India and elsewhere on today’s date.

6 August

🇮🇳 In India

1862 Madras High Court was established.

1906 Prominent freedom fighter Chittaranjan Das and other Congress leaders jointly started publication of Vande Mataram newspaper.

1965 Pakistani soldiers crossed the Line of Control into Kashmir.

1986 Birth of India's first test tube baby.

🌎 Elsewhere

1809 English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian Age in poetry, was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire.

1926 Gertrude Ederle, age 19, of New York became the first woman to swim the English Channel, breaking the men's record by nearly two hours.

1945 The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan—the blast killed more than 70,000 people and destroyed most of the city—in an effort to hasten the end of World War II.

1962 Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule.

1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet, with info.cern.ch becoming the first-ever website.

2012 Curiosity, a SUV-size rover, successfully landed on Mars. The rover's research has been planned for the next two years, but since Curiosity's electricity is powered by plutonium, it could be operational and provide insight into Mars for decades to come.

⭐ Significance

Hiroshima Day is observed on August 6 to commemorate the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, at the end of World War II.

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