Daily Calendar for August 2nd, 2020

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1100s

• Died 1100: King William II of England

1750s

• Born 1754: Pierre-Charles L'Enfant (architect)

1770s

• 1776: Official signing of enlarged copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence

1780s

• Born 1788: Leopold Gmelin (chemist)

1850s

• 1858: Street letter boxes installed in Boston and N.Y.C., first in U.S.

1870s

• 1873: In San Francisco, California, at four o'clock in the morning, Andrew Smith Hallidie successfully tested the world's first cable car

• Died 1876: Wild Bill Hickok (frontiersman)

1880s

• 1886: The Oleomargarine Act established the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) laboratory system

1890s

• Born 1892: Jack Warner (the man behind the development of Warner Brothers Studios)

1900s

• 1909: The Lincoln Cent was issued to replace the Indian Head Cent

1920s

• Died 1922: Alexander Graham Bell (inventor)

• Died 1923: Warren G. Harding (29th U.S. president)

• Born 1924: James Baldwin (author)

• Born 1924: Caroll O'Connor (actor)

1930s

• Born 1932: Peter O'Toole (actor)

• 1934: Adolf Hitler appointed himself dictator of Germany

• 1939: Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President FDR explaining the possibility of an atomic bomb, thus marking the beginning of atomic weaponry

1960s

• Born 1964: Mary Louise Parker (actress)

• Born 1966: Tim Wakefield (baseball player)

1970s

• Born 1972: Jacinda Barrett (model & actress)

1980s

• 1980: Olivia Newton-John's "Magic" topped charts

1990s

• 1990: Iraq invaded Kuwait

• 1991: Viking ship replica Gaia arrived at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland

• Born 1992: Hallie Kate Eisenberg (actress)

• Died 1998: Shari Lewis (actress and puppeteer, best known for Lamb Chop)

2000s

• 2007: Library of Congress announced Charles Simic to be the 15th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry

2010s

• 2010: Yasmin Fudakowska-Gow began 32-hour yoga marathon in Quebec

• Died 2018: Francis "Frank" Gouin (plant physiologist)