Today In History

Wed., Aug. 2, 2000

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.

1921: Opera singer Enrico Caruso died in Naples, Italy.

1923: The 29th president of the United States, Warren G. Harding, died in San Francisco.

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 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 Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee concluded the Potsdam conference.

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