THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 6
August 6 in history
What happened on August 6: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1918, 1945 and 1962, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Second Battle of the Marne
15 Jul-6 Aug 1918 — Germany’s last offensive comes to an end on the Marne. Three days later Foch counterattacks with French, American and British divisions and 350 tanks, erasing the salient. The initiative has passed to the Allies for the last time.
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8:15 a.m., Hiroshima. One aircraft, one bomb, one city. The nuclear age begins with roughly 70,000 dead by nightfall.
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— Kingston, Jamaica
1789–1962 — Jamaica, Britain’s richest sugar island, rivaled Saint-Domingue and held a quarter of a million enslaved people. Britain launched its 1793 invasion of Saint-Domingue from here. Slavery ended in 1834–38, and Jamaica gained independence on 6 August 1962.
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