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Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England, born (1809)

• 9-12 Literature & Poetry Center
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Sir Alexander Fleming, Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist discovered penicillin, born (1881)

Andy Warhol, American pop artist, born (1928)

• Refrigerator to Renoir: Ten Great Art Lessons on the Net

Lucille Ball, television comedienne, born (1911)

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II, killing an estimated 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.(1945)

• History: Atomic Bomb
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• History: World War II
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• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  Education World recommends some of the best sites on the World Wide Web for learning and teaching about this important historic event.

Gertrude Ederle, 19 yr. old American became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1926)

Voting Rights Act guaranteeing black voting rights signed (1965)

• Black History on the Internet
  Explore the best Black History sites for primary, middle, and high school level students. Activity and lesson ideas included!

"Mother Ann" Lee arrived in US to found the Shakers (1774)