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6th Aug. 1945 : An atomic bomb was used containing more power than 12,000 tons of TNT and producing more than 2,000 times the blast of the most powerful bomb ever dropped before was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, killing an estimated 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare. The bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” with 130 pounds of uranium-235 produced the equivalent to about 13 kilotons of TNT
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Yum ul Furqan… Jang tadaad se nahin istedaad se jeeti jati hai 
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6th Aug. 1926 : The American Gold Medalist swimmer ( Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle ) became the first woman to swim the English Channel from Cap Griz-Nez, France to Dover, England in 14 hours and 39 minutes breaking the previous record set by British Navy Captain Matthew Webb in 1875 . Due to the extreme cold water she had covered her body in lard and petroleum jelly to insulate her from the cold waters of the Channel
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6th Aug. 1935 : In Hollywood, California Dr. Ralph Willard, a doctor who came from the state of Georgia in Russia, has successfully frozen a monkey named Jekal and brought it back to life. The doctor has also frozen guinea pigs and resuscitated them. However, when he wanted to experiment on dogs howls of protest came from humane societies
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6th Aug. 1978 : Pope Paul VI, who led the Roman Catholic Church for 15 years, died after suffering a major heart attack
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6th August 1985 : In Tel Aviv, Israel, a suicide bomber astride a donkey exploded near a pro-Israeli site in Southern Lebanon. According to Israel Army Radio both the burrow and the bomber were killed and one Lebanese person was wounded.
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6th Aug. 1997 : Microsoft buys a minority stake in struggling Apple Computers for $150 million and they agree to share technology. The deal helped Apple on Wall Street, sending the company’s stock up to close at its highest price in over a year. MICROSOFT NO LONGER OWNS APPLE STOCK BUT IT WAS IMPORTANT AT THAT PERIOD IN HISTORY TO APPLE
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6th Aug. 2006 : After heavy monsoon rains in the region, a bridge in Mardan, Pakistan collapsed and killed forty people
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6th Aug. 2007 : Six miners are trapped and lost when a mine at Crandel Canyon, Utah collapses and the tragedy is worsened when 2 rescue workers and a mine inspector are also lost when the tunnel they are digging to get to the trapped miners gives way
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6th Aug. 2011 : 38 people were killed on A US Helicopter downed in Afghanistan with the Taliban claiming responsibility amongst those on the Chinook helicopter at least seventeen were members of SEAL Team 6
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This is even not a news in Pakistan.. suicide attack killing just one person
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DA there is a long history of such incidents in Balochistan especially Quetta. Lets work on that
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Monsoon has not started yet this year
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agreed
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ok :k:
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7th August 1959 : Explorer 6 is launched hoping to take The First satellite photographs of earth from a US unmanned spacecraft Explorer 6
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7th Aug. 1957 : For twenty years the Laurel and Hardy comedy team was wildly popular, doing over 200 slap stick comedy routines. Oliver Hardy passed away today in North Hollywood at the home of his mother-in-law. He was 65 years old and had been paralyzed by a stroke since last September 12. The stroke left him unable to speak. Hardy was described as “an elephant on tippy-toe.”
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7th Aug. 1963 : Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of President John F. Kennedy, gave birth to a son today named Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
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7th Aug. 1974 : French stunt man Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the twin towers of the nearly completed New York’s World Trade Center. The stunt was illegal and when he went to court because of the news coverage and public appreciation he was ordered “to perform a show for the children of New York City” and later was also presented with a lifetime pass to the Twin Towers’ Observation Deck by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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7th August 2006 : 2,000 workers at the largest private copper mine in the world, in Escondida, Chile went on strike on this day. The workers demanded a 13% increase in pay during the first strike of the firm’s history. The company, BHP Billiton and the workers reached an agreement on August 31st, 2006