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August 2

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In 1776, members of the Continental Congress began to attach their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.

In 1876, frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot from behind and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood, S.D.  The man who shot Hickok, Jack McCall, was later hanged.

In 1939, the Hatch Act was passed, forbidding federal civil service employees from taking an active part in political campaigns.

In 1939, Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging the U.S. to begin an atomic weapons research program.

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"I made one grea mistake in my life - when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made ... but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them."
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Albert Einstein (1879-1955)