August 4, 1735 a newspaper publisher in NYC was found not guilty of libel against royal Governor William Cosby this would be an important milestone in right of freedom of the press.

August 3, 1492 Christopher Columbus left Spain for what would worlds unknown
In 1923 in the early morning hours at his family home in Plymouth , Vermont (a really cool place to visit) Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th US president. Warren G. Harding had pasted away the evening before.

August 2, 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait

August 2 commemorates a solemn and somewhat forgotten day in our history. It was on this day in 1776 that the members of Second Continental Congress began signing the the Declaration of Independence. Getting the document written approved and signed was about a two month process. On June 7 Richard Henry Lee presented a resolution That these united colonies ought to be free and independent states....... the motion was tabled and on June 11 a committee of five was named to write a document of separation. July 2 the Lee resolution was adopted with New York abstaining then the wording of what would be called the Declaration Independence was approved on July 4. More than likely only one or two people signed it on that day, John Hancock the president of the Congress and Patterson ,the secretary. From some of the accounts of August 2 we know that they signed in mostly silence knowing the gravity of what they were doing.
So today we salute those 50 plus men who showed moral courage that helped lead to the freedoms we have today.

August 1, 1873 California became the 38th state. Today is also the anniversary of the first census in 1790 with a population of 3,929,214 land area 864,746 for 4.5 people per square mile.
2000 census 281,424,603 with 79.6 people per square mile. Freedom brings growth and prosperity. Let us pray that we continue to live in freedom .