1889 - The screw bottle top was patented by Dan Rylands of Hope Glass Works, Yorkshire
1926 - Gertrude Ederle of New York became the first American woman to swim the English Channel, in about 14.5 hours
1945 - The United States dropped an atomic bomb from the Enola Gay on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare
Birthdays:
1881 - Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin
1928 - Andy Warhol
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