TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: AUGUST 2

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    TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: AUGUST 2

    338 BC Macedonian army led by Philip II defeats combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean

    1492 Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella

    1589 During France’s religious war, a fanatical monk stabs King Henry II to death.

    1776 Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people (date most accepted by modern historians)

    1802 Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed “Consul for Life” by the French Senate after a plebiscite from the French people.

    1832 Troops under General Henry Atkinson massacre Sauk Indian men, women and children who are followers of Black Hawk at the Bad Axe River in Wisconsin. Black Hawk himself finally surrenders three weeks later, bringing the Black Hawk War to an end.

    1861 The United States Congress passed the first income tax. The revenues were intended for the war effort against the South. The tax was never enacted.

    1862 The Army Ambulance Corps is established by Maj. Gen. George McClellan.

    1870 World’s first underground railway opened. The Tower Subway beneath river Thames in London opened its doors for passengers

    1923 Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes president upon the death of Warren G. Harding.

    1939 U.S. President Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act. The act prohibited civil service employees from taking an active part in political campaigns.

    1943 Lt. John F. Kennedy, towing an injured sailor, swims to a small island in the Solomon Islands. The night before, his boat, PT-109, had been split in half by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri.

    1945 The Potsdam Conference, in which Allied leaders planned the postwar governance of Germany, ended.

    1958 The Arab Federation is dissolved. The short-lived federation of Jordan and Iraq was dissolved after King Faisal of Iraq was deposed and assassinated during the 14 July Revolution.

    1983 U.S. House of Representatives approved a law that designated the third Monday of January would be a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The law was signed by President Reagon on November 2.

    1989 NASA confirmed Voyager 2’s discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24

    1990 Iraqi forces invade neighboring Kuwait. In 2 days Iraqi forces had overrun Kuwaiti forces and Saddam Hussein declared Kuwait as the 19th province of Iraq.

    1998 Second Congo War Begins. The deadliest war in Africa, the war and its aftermath has killed an estimated 5.4 million people. The war started with a mutiny in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and soon involved 9 African nations. It lasted for 5 years.

    2018 Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value

    REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com

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