2015 Event Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asserts Japan's continued pursuit of a world free of nuclear weapons as the city of Nagasaki commemorates the 70th anniversary of its destruction by atomic bombing 2010 Event Japan's Mayor Tomihisa Taue appeals to eliminate nuclear weapons at the 65th anniversary commemoration of the 1945 bombing of Nagasaki 1945 Event U.S. drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki 1905 Birthday Emilio Segre, born in Tivoli, Italy, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle and an element used for Fat Man atomic bomb used on Nagasaki 1853 Event Russian fleet appears at Nagasaki, Japan 1652 Event Ingen Ryuki invited to become the abbot of Sofokuji temple in Nagasaki