From the August 2, 2017, Chicago Tribune.
1934 German President Paul von Hindenburg died, paving the way for Adolf Hitler's complete takeover of the German government.
1939 Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt urging the U.S. to create an atomic weapons research program.
1943 During World War II, a Navy patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, sank, after being rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri off the Solomon Islands.
(The future president was credited with saving members of his crew, and he was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism and the Purple Heart.)
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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