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On August 9, 1945 the United States threw Fat Man Bomb into the city of Nagasaki in Japan.
It has 3.5 meters long, 1.5 meters diameter, weighs 4500 kg and 1 kg plutonium.
In the few seconds of this accident 74,000 people lost their lives.
This day was celebrated to remember the disaster of the atom.
International World Citizens Day
UN The General Assembly announced on August 23, 1994 a World Day of World Citizens Day in a resolution.
This day has been adopted since 1995.
This day is celebrated to Preserving the culture of the ancient inhabitants,to provide such as Politics, education, languages.
This day is celebrated to prevent awareness of the occupation against them.
Events
1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
1942 – Many Indian Congress leaders including Mahatma Gandhi were arrested in Bombay for launching the Quit India Movement.
Births
1897 – E.Krishna Iyer, Indian lawyer, freedom fighter.
1909 – Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, Indian scholar, author, and academic.He was awarded the Jnanpith Award in 1990 for the ‘Bharata Sindhu Rashmi’ classic of 1982.
1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American astronomer and astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate
1953 – Jean Tirole, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1948 – Ellapparaka Subbarao, Indian scientist.
1962 – Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate
1969 – C. F. Powell, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
2000 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
