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 - John Hughes
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2009: Film director John Hughes ("Pretty in Pink," "The Breakfast Club," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off") dies from a heart attack at the age of 59 in New York City.

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