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Originally Posted by Finaddict
Isn't today is also the anniversary of bombing of Nagasaki? Which led Japan to surrender in WWII?
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That too. 12 years ago would have been the 50th anniversay, too.
The forgotten atomic city for most people. Being second ever at anything makes you a historical footnote. Everyone knows that John Glenn was the first American to orbit the eath, but maybe 3 people out of a hundred remember that Scott Carpenter was #2.
And even I can't name the second group of astronauts to walk on the moon
