On this day:
1926: Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel
1945: US bombs Hiroshima
1962: Jamaica gains independence
1965: Pakistani soldiers crossed the Line of Control into Kashmir
Born on this day:
1809: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet
1881: Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate
Gone on this day:
1637: Ben Jonson, English writer
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