Squiz the Day / 06 August 2023
6 August 2023
Jamaica and Bolivia’s National Days
Day of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Anniversary of:
• the HMS Roebuck, captained by William Dampier, lands at Shark Bay, WA, on the first British scientific expedition to Australia (1699)
• the US dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (1945)
• the World Wide Web becoming publicly available (1991)
• the birthdays of Alfred Tennyson (1809), Edith Roosevelt (1861), Lucille Ball (1911) and Andy Warhol (1928)
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