Post by Phoenix Global Support

On this day in military history - 2 August 1776 – In Philadelphia most members of the Continental Congress began attaching their signatures to the parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence 1832 – Some 1,300 Illinois militia under General Henry Atkinson massacred Sauk Indian men, women, and children who were followers of Black Hawk at the Bad Axe River in Wisconsin 1909 – What will become the US Army Air Corps formed as the Army Signal Corps took 1st delivery from the Wright Brothers 1934 – With the death of German President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler becomes the absolute dictator of Germany under the title of Reichsführer, or “Imperial Leader.” 1939 – Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the creation of an atomic weapons research program 1945 – During the night (August 1-2), 820 US B-29 Superfortress bombers drop a record total of 6632 tons of bombs on five Japanese cities including Hachioji, Nagaoka, Mito, Toyama and the petroleum center of Kawasaki 1964 – North Vietnamese torpedo boats attack the destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731) 1990 – Iraq invaded Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich emirate 2004 – Pres. Bush proposed creating a national intelligence director in line with the Sep 11 Commission recommendations #phoenixdelivers