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.
Motown Records
1973: Stevie Wonder is seriously injured in a car accident while on tour in North Carolina, when a car in which he was riding hit the back of a truck. The accident leaves him in a coma for four days and results in a partial loss of his sense of smell and a temporary loss of sense of taste.
