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.
This week the world remembers the fateful attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that changed the world forever. Al Jazeera and Agencies |. | War & Conflict, Politics, Asia Pacific, Japan, Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan.More than 140,000 people died in the devastating blast which killed, maimed and traumatised civilians in the city for decades to come.e was a 20-year-old university student when the city of Hiroshima in Japan was bombed by Allied forces on August 6, 1945, and he still suffers the aftereffects of radiation. [Michael Brennan/Getty Images].