August 6
1945 The first atomic bomb used on people was dropped on Hiroshima.
1983 Japanese PM NAKASONE Yasuhiro reasserted the "three nuclear principles": Japan will not produce, possess, or introduce nuclear weapons.
1993 Heading an 8-party coalition, HOSOKAWA Morihiro (b. 1938, New Frontier Party leader) became the first non-Liberal Democratic Party prime minister of Japan since 1955.
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