Today in History- August 6th

Happy Birthday!
1809 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet (The Charge of the Light Brigade)
1908 Will Lee, actor (Mr. Hooper from Sesame Street)
1911 Lucille Ball, actress, comedian (I Love Lucy)
1917 Robert Mitchum, actor (Cape Fear, Ryan's Daughter, and the epic TV miniseries "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance.")
1928 Andy Warhol, artist
1951 Catherine Hicks, actress (Annie from 7th Heaven)
1972 Geri Halliwell, singer from Spice Girls (Wannabe, Say You'll Be There)
1990 JonBenét Ramsey, unsolved murder

Deaths:
2004 Rick James, singer (Super Freak)

Events:
1945 Hiroshima is hit by atomic bomb during World War II.