On this day: August 6

POSTED: 03:21 PM PDT Aug 03, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Aug 05, 2012 

The electric chair is used for the first time, a TV great and pop art legend share a birthday, America drops the A-bomb on Hiroshima and the country's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice is confirmed, all on this day.

OTD August 6 - Preston Sturges
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Paramount Pictures

1959: Screenwriter and director Preston Sturges ("The Great McGinty," "Sullivan's Travels," "The Lady Eve") dies at age 60 in New York City.

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