TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019THE WORLD TODAY
Millie Bull on the key events from 6 August
Andy Warhol was born on this day in 1928 (Getty)
The first execution by electric chair took place in 1890 at Auburn Prison in New York. William Kemmler
was executed following the murder of his lover Matilda Ziegler.
Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel in 1926, aged 19.
Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He would become one of the most innovative
artists of the 20th century.
An American plane dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945.
Approximately 80,000 people were killed and another 35,000 were injured.
Beatles release their fifth studio album Help! in 1965.