Volume 02, Issue 14

August 1

• First U.S. Census taken
• Francis Scott Key born in 1779
• Bank of England opens, 1694

August 2

• The U.S. War department purchases its first airplane, 1909
• Alexander Graham Bell dies, 1922
• Wild Bill Hickok dies at Deadwood, S.D., 1876
• Pres. Warren G. Harding dies, 1923
• Adolf Hitler proclaims himself leader of Germany, 1934

August 3

• Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain, 1492
• Journalist Ernie Pyle born, 1900

August 4

• England declared war on Germany; and the U.S. declares neutrality, 1914

August 5

• Admiral David Farragut damned the torpedoes, 1864
• Cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty laid, 1884
• Bible Translator for the American Indians, John Eliot is born, 1604
• Marilyn Monroe dies, 1962
• President Nixon admits he ordered a cover-up of Watergate events, 1974
• American Bandstand first televised, 1957

August 6

• The Enola Gay drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, 1945

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