On this day: August 6

POSTED: 3:21 PM PDT August 3, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT August 5, 2012 

The electric chair is used for the first time, a TV great and pop art legend share a birthday, America drops the A-bomb on Hiroshima and the country's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice is confirmed, all on this day.

OTD August 6 - Gonzalo Jimenez
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1538: Bogota, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, a Spanish conquistador seeking the legendary golden city of El Dorado.

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