Daily Calendar for Saturday, August 2, 2025

Events

• Official signing of enlarged copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence– 1776
• Street letter boxes installed in Boston and N.Y.C., first in U.S.– 1858
• In San Francisco, California, at four o’clock in the morning, Andrew Smith Hallidie successfully tested the world’s first cable car– 1873
• The Oleomargarine Act established the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) laboratory system– 1886
• The Lincoln Cent was issued to replace the Indian Head Cent– 1909
• Adolf Hitler appointed himself dictator of Germany– 1934
• Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President FDR explaining the possibility of an atomic bomb, thus marking the beginning of atomic weaponry– 1939
• Olivia Newton-John’s “Magic” topped charts– 1980
• Iraq invaded Kuwait– 1990
• Viking ship replica Gaia arrived at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland– 1991
• Library of Congress announced Charles Simic to be the 15th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry– 2007
• Yasmin Fudakowska-Gow began 32-hour yoga marathon in Quebec– 2010