Interesting Facts

6th August 1926 - The American Olympic athlete, Gertrude Ederle, became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. It took her 14 hours, 39 minutes to swim the 56 kilometers from France to England. She held the record for 35 years. 1945 - The world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. An estimated 140,000 people were killed by the bomb and its aftermath.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombs. (He was visiting Hiroshima on a business trip for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, when he stepped off a tram the first bomb exploded. He was badly burnt, temporarily blinded and lost much of his hearing, but he managed to return home to Nagasaki. He was in his boss's office explaining how he had almost been killed only days before, when the second bomb detonated. Does this make him the luckiest man in history, or the unluckiest?)