August 2
1769 - The city of Los Angeles was named on this day
1824 - Fifth Avenue was opened in New York City
1861 - The United States Congress passed the first income tax. The revenues were intended for the war effort against the South. The tax was never enacted.<!--08-->
1939 - Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the U.S. to have an atomic weapons research program
1945 - The Allied conference at Potsdam was concluded.
1964 - The Pentagon reported the first of two North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1990 - Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by OPEC.

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