Declaration signed, income tax, USS Maddox, Iraq invades Kuwait

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WOW! BIG day in "This day in radical history" August 2nd

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17393#1

August 2
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school

320: Yat-Balam founds dynasty that rules Yaxchilan (Mayan Empire) throughout its 500-year recorded history.

1776: U.S. Declaration of Independence signed.

1861: National income tax, the first of its kind, passed to aid the Union war effort.

1931: Albert Einstein urges all scientists to refuse military work.

1937: Forty thousand West Coast maritime workers call work stoppage to join anti-fascist demonstration.


1942: Press in Los Angeles whips up racism, sheriff arrests over 600 Mexican-Americans for one murder.

1964: U.S. destroyer Maddox reports, falsely, it had been attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin.

1990: Iraq invades Kuwait, after discussing plans with U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie.