August 2nd


1610: Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, and discovers the bodies of several Gambino family murder victims.

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, and give physicists a chance to get a date.

1943: The PT-109 commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, was sunk off the Solomon Islands by a Japanese destroyer. Teddy Kennedy cables his brother and advises him to just swim away.