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Today is Saturday, Aug. 6, the 218th day of 2005. There are 147 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
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In 1787, the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began to debate the articles contained in a draft of the United States Constitution.
In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis I abdicated.
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