A Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima... and a Sunny Bank Holiday

On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the United States. Here is the news reader's script from the first BBC report of the bomb:

"Monday,
August 6th, 1945
Six p.m.

HOME SERVICE:

Here is the News:

President Truman has announced a tremendous achievement by Allied scientists. They have produced the atomic bomb. One has already been dropped on a Japanese army base. It alone contained as much explosive power as two-thousand of our great ten-tonners. The President has also foreshadowed the enormous peace-time value of this harnessing of atomic energy.

At home, it's been a Bank holiday of thunderstorms as well as sunshine; a record crowd at Lord's has seen Australia make 265 for 5 wickets."
--reproduced in David Irving, The German Atomic Bomb: The History of Nuclear Research in Nazi Germany