In 1886, Colonial and Indian representatives visited Bradford.
In 1926, Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to successfully swim the English Channel.
In 1945, at 8.15 am US Air Force B-29 "Enola Gay" dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
From the Telegraph & Argus of August 6th, 1976...Bradford Metropolitan Council has banned open-air meetings in local parks, and is to get a strong protest from the city's Trades Council. The ban, says Bradford Trades Council, ends a long tradition, and is a curtailment of free speech. Parks are for recreation, says the chairman of the local authority panel responsible, and there is a Speakers' Corner as an alternative.
From the Telegraph & Argus of August 6th, 1951...What is forecast, and has started, as a wet Bank Holiday may persuade many people to stay under cover tonight. For them there is good entertainment on the Radio, including, on the Home Service, a half hour excerpt from Harold Fielding's Music for the Millions at 7 followed at 7.30 by Henry Wood promenade concerts. There is also Carroll Levis and His Discoveries at 8.30, Starlight Hour at 9, and Tonight We Dance at 10.15.
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