1945

The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare

The bomb named Little Boy was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan at 8:16 Japanese time

An estimated 140,000 people were killed

It had the energy of 15 kilo tons of TNT

1986

Timothy Dalton became the fourth actor to be named James Bond

He’s joined by Roger Moore, David Niven, Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Pierce Brosnan & Daniel Craig as James Bond alums

Dalton starred in The Living Daylights & License To Kill

1993

Alan Jackson had the #1 song in the land with Chattahoochee

Chattahoochee also received CMA awards for Single of the Year and Song of the Year

1996

NASA announced the discovery of evidence of primitive life on Mars

The evidence came in the form of a meteorite that was found in Antarctica

The meteorite was believed to have come from Mars and contained a fossil

and then lastly…

2003

Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy to replace Gray Davis as governor of California to Jay Leno on theTonight Show

And he did replace Davis. California actually elected the Terminator! 

-Tyler Jackson

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