In memory of James Baldwin and Carroll O’Connor. Happy birthday, Peter O’Toole. Past August 2s: 216 B.C.: Hannibal defeats the Romans. 1776: Members of the Continental Congress begin signing the Declaration of Independence 1791: Samuel Briggs and his son, Samuel Briggs, Jr., become the first father-son pair to receive a joint U.S. patent. Their invention is a nail-making machine. 1832: Black Hawk and his band of Sac Indians under a white flag of truce are massacred by Illinois militia at Bad Axe River. Even the elderly and small children are killed. 1987: Mary R. Stout becomes first woman elected head of a veterans organization. She is named president of Vietnam Veterans of America. 1990: Saddam Hussein of Iraq invades and annexes Kuwait. 2010: The U.S. Government estimates the Deepwater Horizon oil spill dumped nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 00:45:56 +0000
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