On this day in 1945, American bomber drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The United States became the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured.

Read more about the history and aftermath of that day below:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-bomber-drops-atomic-bomb-on-hiroshima

This Saturday it will have been 50 years since Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first humans to set foot on the moon.

"Robert J. Cenker, a Rutgers-New Brunswick electrical engineering alumnus, was a crew member on the 1986 space shuttle Columbia, where he changed the face of cable TV across the United States.

During his six-day mission, which began Jan. 12, 1986, he observed the deployment of an RCA satellite and conducted an experiment on an infrared imaging camera. In total, Cenker traveled more than 2.1 million miles in 96 Earth orbits and logged more than 146 hours in space."

Read more articles about the Apollo moon landing below!

#DidYouKnow that THREE Rutgers alumni were in the FIFA Women World's Cup? The U.S.'s Carli Lloyd, Jamaica's Chantelle Swaby and Canada's Shannon Woeller.

"Competing in her fourth World Cup, Lloyd saw action in all seven matches, scoring three goals for the U.S. With two goals versus Chile on June 16, the Delran, New Jersey, native set a record with a goal in six consecutive World Cup games. Additionally, Lloyd's goals helped Team USA registered the record for the most goals scored by a team in a single FIFA Women's World Cup with 26."

Read more about it below!

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https://scarletknights.com/news/2019/7/7/womens-soccer-lloyd-and-uswnt-back-to-back-fifa-world-cup-champions.aspx