World’s first atom bomb was tested on this day
On the morning of 16 July 1945, the first atomic bomb was successfully tested in the New Mexico desert, US. The resulting explosion sent a mushroom cloud 40,000 feet into the sky. Later, USA dropped the first atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on 6 August and 9 August 1945 respectively, killing over 150,000 people.