On this day:
1942: Quit India Movement Begins in India
1945: An Atomic Bomb is dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki
1965: Singapore Leaves Malaysia
2016: Longest ever hunger strike ends, Indian human rights campaigner Irom Sharmila tastes honey after 16 years
Born on this day:
1896: Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist
Gone on this day:
1962: Hermann Hesse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
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