What happened on 6 August?

11 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima US B-29 Enola Gay drops first nuclear weapon used in war; ~140,000 dead by year's end.
2. 1806 Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire Francis II abdicates the imperial crown under pressure from Napoleon, ending the thousand-year Reich.
3. 1965 Voting Rights Act 1965 US bans literacy tests and establishes federal oversight of state election laws.
4. 1881 Born: Alexander Fleming Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin.
5. 2015 Hamilton premieres on Broadway Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical reimagining of the American founding.
6. 1928 Born: Andy Warhol American artist whose Campbell's Soup and Marilyn screenprints defined Pop Art.
7. 2012 Curiosity rover lands on Mars NASA's car-sized rover begins exploring Gale Crater.
8. 1824 Battle of Junin A cavalry victory in the Peruvian highlands, a prelude to Ayacucho.
9. 1915 Battle of Lone Pine A costly Anzac assault on Ottoman trenches at Gallipoli, later an emblem of the Anzac legend.
10. 1962 Jamaican independence Three centuries after the English took the island for sugar and slavery, Jamaica lowers the Union flag — the Caribbean's decolonisation begins.
11. 1906 Bipin Chandra Pal launches Bande Mataram Pal's English-language daily gives the Swadeshi movement a national voice and lands its writers in court for sedition.