1890 At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the 1st person to be executed by electric chair.
1942 Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine sinks U-210
1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay"
1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
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