History for the day

On 6 August 1945, the Enola Gay dropped an American atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan that instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people, in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
(Rico says he apologizes for not publishing more of the over 300,000 photos of the destruction of Hiroshima that Google Images presented, but you can find them, horrific as they are, for yourself.)