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.
By Lydia Smith. The aftermath of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, by the Americans at the end of World War II Getty. On 6 August 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the southern Japanese city of Hiroshima.The explosion immediately wiped out around 90% of the city and killed around 80,000 people.hree days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. One minute after. At 8.15am Japan time, US bomber Enola Gay released the nuclear bomb 'Little Boy' above central Hiroshima.