The name Colosseum is in fact a much later addition. It was originally known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, and was conceived as a peculiarly Roman political gesture ... a gift from a new dynasty of Roman emperors to a populace kept happy by bread and circuses.ook tickets for The Roman Colosseum / Guided tour of the Colosseum. The Colosseum, Rome-ticket types, opening times, how to gain admission. The Colosseum, Rome, Italy-visitor information. The Colosseum or Coliseum is today the most recognisable of Rome's Classical buildings.
More On This Day. On This Day: United States Drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima. On Aug. 6, 1945, U.S. war plane Enola Gay dropped âLittle Boy,â a 8,900-pound atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, Japan. Within eight days, Japan surrendered, ending World War II. The United States and Japan had been at war since 1941.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 1945. The atomic bomb dropped was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The bomb was called Little Boy and it was released by the Enola Gay. It was dropped at 8:15 AM and hit the ground with tremendous force. The history of the atomic bomb shows 66,000 were killed at that moment.Over 70,000 were injured.wo miles away there was also heavy damage. On August 9, 1945 another atomic bomb (plutonium type) was dropped in Nagasaki. Over 25,000 people were killed in an instant. Despite this fact, the two bombs actually used less than a tenth of 1 percent of their power.