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On August 6, 1945 at 8:16 am in Hiroshima (7:16 pm August 5th on the US East Coast), after falling for 43 seconds from the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, the Little Boy atomic bomb detonated 1,968 feet (600 meters) above the city, 550 feet (168 meters) from the Aioi Bridge. One second later the fireball reached maximum size, 900 feet in diameter (274 meters). The mushroom cloud began to form.

As temperatures on the ground reached 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit (3871 Celsius), buildings melted and fused together, human and animal tissue vaporized. The blast wave traveled at 984 miles per hour in all directions, demolishing over two-thirds of Hiroshima’s buildings in a massive, expanding firestorm. Eighty thousand people were instantly killed or grievously wounded. Over 100,000 more would die from the bomb’s effects in the coming months.

Do you think Lizzie is the one that murdered her parents?

On this day, Andrew and Abby Borden were found brutally murdered inside their home in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Suspicion quickly fell upon Andrew’s daughter, Lizzie Borden. She was arrested and placed on trial, but the evidence was largely circumstantial. In 1893, the jury found her not guilty.

No one else was ever convicted.

More than a century later, the case remains one of America’s most haunting unsolved mysteries. Did Lizzie commit the murders and escape justice, or was she forever condemned by a crime she did not commit?

THE BULLET THAT KILLED WILD BILL

On August 2, 1876, a dirty, no-good gambler named Jack McCall shot and killed "Wild Bill" Hickok while he was playing cards at a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. McCall was later hanged for it, but one of the great legends of the west was dead.