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