|
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1776 Members of the Continental Congress began attaching their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.
1876 Frontiersman ''Wild Bill'' Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood, S.D.
1907 Baseball hall-of-famer Walter Johnson made his major league debut with the Washington Senators.
1921 Opera singer Enrico Caruso died in Naples, Italy.
1921 A jury in Chicago acquitted several former members of the Chicago White Sox and two others of conspiring to defraud the public by throwing the World Series.
On Aug. 2, 1923, the 29th president of the United States, Warren G. Harding, died in San Francisco. Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office as President of the United States.
1934 German President Paul von Hindenburg died, paving the way for Adolf Hitler's complete takeover.
1939 Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program.
1943 A Navy patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, sank after being sheared in two by a Japanese destroyer off the Solomon Islands. Kennedy was credited with saving members of the crew.
1945 President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee concluded the Potsdam conference.
1964 The Pentagon reported the first of two attacks on U.S. destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1979 New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson died in the crash of his private plane in Canton, Ohio.
1985 A Delta Air Lines jumbo jet crashed while attempting to land at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, killing 137 people.
1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich emirate.
1997 Author William S. Burroughs died at age 83.
2000 Republicans nominated Texas Gov. George W. Bush for president and Dick Cheney for vice president at the party's convention in Philadelphia.
2001 Muslim extremists seized 36 Filipinos on the southern island of Basilan and beheaded at least four.
2003 Liberian President Charles Taylor agreed to cede power.
Actor Peter O'Toole turns 73 today
66 Wes Craven
Director
60 Joanna Cassidy
Actress
55 Kathryn Harrold
Actress
52 Butch Patrick
Actor (''The Munsters'')
46 Apollonia
Actress (''Purple Rain'')
Have a great day everyone. Remember, the pen is mightier than the sword, the keyboard mightier than the twit. :D
And now, coffee time....
|