This Day In History

August 2
1776
The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
1903
Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey takes place.
1934
Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
1939
Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1945
World War II: the Potsdam Conference, at which the Allied Powers discuss the future of the defeated.
1989
Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.
1990
Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.