On this day in history.

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August 6,1996 - NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars.

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This is a fitting anniversary considering Curiosity's successful landing on Mars.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...8721A920120806

On this date in 1945 at 8:16 am the B-29 Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima,Japan. The first use of nuclear weapons in combat.

On this date in 1926,Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English channel.

August 6, 1997 - Apple Computer and Microsoft agreed to share technology. The deal gave Microsoft a stake in Apple's survival.

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On this date in 1890 in Auburn Prison,New York the first person was executed by electricity in the first use of the Electric Chair.

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On this date in 1890 in Auburn Prison,New York the first person was executed by electricity in the first use of the Electric Chair.

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I have a book called "The executioner's current". It details how the electric chair came into being. The use of electricity to deliberately kill a human being was engineered by Edison and Westinghouse in order to prove that one technology was safer than the other. Edison favored DC, while Westinghouse pioneered AC. The first electric chair used direct current, much to Edison's annoyance. The execution was bungled, and it took two attempts to kill William Kemmler.

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I have a book called "The executioner's current". It details how the electric chair came into being. The use of electricity to deliberately kill a human being was engineered by Edison and Westinghouse in order to prove that one technology was safer than the other. Edison favored DC, while Westinghouse pioneered AC. The first electric chair used direct current, much to Edison's annoyance. The execution was bungled, and it took two attempts to kill William Kemmler.

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Thankfully there's Utah.

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August 6, 1965 - The Beatles "Help" LP was released in the UK.

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Originally Posted by KevinJS

I have a book called "The executioner's current". It details how the electric chair came into being. The use of electricity to deliberately kill a human being was engineered by Edison and Westinghouse in order to prove that one technology was safer than the other. Edison favored DC, while Westinghouse pioneered AC. The first electric chair used direct current, much to Edison's annoyance. The execution was bungled, and it took two attempts to kill William Kemmler.

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So much for it being painless.

August 6, 1932, Welland Ontario, Canada, saw the opening of the Welland Ship Canal.

42 km in length, the canal and its system of massive locks, enables ships to ascend and descend the Niagara Escarpment and to bypass Niagara Falls to transit the entire Great Lakes system.

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