40 Singer Geri Halliwell of The Spice Girls
36 Actress Soleil Moon Frye of Punky Brewster
1926 Gertrude Ederle became the first U.S. woman to swim across the English Channel.
1945 The first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
1988 'Appetite For Destruction' Guns N' Roses debut album went to No.1 in the US, after spending 57 weeks on the chart and selling over 5 million copies. Singles from the album, ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine,’ ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ and ‘Paradise City’ were all US top 10 hits. Worldwide sales now stand in excess of 28 million and the album is the best-selling debut album of all-time in the US, beating Boston's debut album Boston, which has gone 17x platinum.
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