August 6 Birthday
August 6, 1945: At 8:15 AM, the Enola Gay dropped "Little Boy" over Hiroshima. The bomb detonated 1,900 feet above the city. About 80,000 people died instantly; 60,000 more would die by year's end from burns and radiation. The bomb was a uranium gun-type device that had never been tested — the Manhattan Project was so confident in the design that they used the first one on a city. The plutonium implosion design was tested at Trinity on July 16. Also born this day: Andy Warhol, whose Campbell's Soup Cans are now in MoMA. People born on August 6 fall under the zodiac sign of Leo. The birthstone is Peridot and the birth flower is Gladiolus. Historical events on August 6 include 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1991: World Wide Web first publicly available, 2012: Curiosity rover lands on Mars. Famous people born on August 6 include Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809), Lucille Ball (1911), Andy Warhol (1928).