Si Kaddour Benghabrit was the first Imam and leader of the Grand Mosque of Paris which was built from 1922-1926. He was honoured for saving 100 Jews during the Holocaust in WWII.
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
Japan, that instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people in the first use
of a nuclear weapon in warfare.