On Truman's decision to drop nuclear bombs on Japan.

Bombing of Germany killed more people and was ineffective against the factories that were usually the military targets. Some Allied generals considered this bombing a war crime.

India imposed a curfew on Kashmir again, lest Kashmiris protest on the first anniversary of the special repression there.

*[Musicians] taking on political roles from Algeria to Zambia have been beaten, [jailed] and killed.*

*Mumbai installs female figures on traffic lights. Campaigners in India say the move helps dispel the notion that only men should be out in public.*

(satire) *…ornithologists at Bowdoin College released a groundbreaking new study Monday that attributed owls’ nocturnal lifestyle to their hard cocaine habit.*