What Happened On This Date? No One Cares? Too Bad

Don't believe that Fourth of July crap; it wasn't until this date (at least they did get the yr. correct) in 1776 that the Continental Congrefs started signing the Declaration of Independence. Other signatures: In 1939, Albert Einstein signed the letter to FDR urging the creation of destruction, that is, an atomic weapons research project. Deaths This Date: One hundred yrs. later (1876) "Wild Bill" Hickok got plugged while playing poker in now HBO-famed Deadwood, Dakota Territory. The hand he was holding, aces & eights, has become known as the "Dead Man's Hand." 1923, Fatso Warren G. Harding went under in San Francisco, making "Silent Cal" Coolidge the prez. 1934, Kraut President Paul von Hindenburg died, giving Adolf Hitler complete control of Germany. Militaria: JFK was thrown overboard from PT-109 when it was rammed by the Nipponese destroyer Amagiri in the Solomons, leading to (or helping) his becoming president, which lead to his assassination. In 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox rec'd. light damage from North Vietnamese patrol torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin, allowing LBJ to lie about what happened & eventually to send huge numbers of American forces & material to be wasted in South Vietnam. In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait, allowing any George Bush you can think of to lie & cheat in order to start a couple of wars.