This Week: July 30 - August 4: The War to End All Wars Begins &c.

Not an especially inspiring week in history. I like my truck so it's good Henry was born. I don't like Lemark. Clark? Just not into him right now. And so on.


July 30

Henry Ford born 1863 [1]

July 31

The Donner Party left Fort Bridger, Wyoming in 1846 en route to California via an "untried route. ... It turned out to be a road to disaster." [2]

August 1

Jean Baptiste de Lemark born 1774 [1]

William Clark born 1770 [1]

Herman Melville born 1819 [3]

First U.S. census reports 100% of households are without an electric dryer a population of 3,929,214 or 4.5 per square mile. [2] (U.S. 2010: 87.4; Alaska: 1.2; Mississippi: 63.2; DC: 9856.5)

August 2

Pierre Charles L'Enfant born 1754 [3] (You can squeeze a lot of folks into a city arranged as a wheel.)

U.S. War Department "purchased its first military war plane from the Wright Brothers in 1909, thus founding the Army Corps." [3]

August 3

Germany declares war on France and Belgium 1914 [1]

August 4

Percy Bysshe Shelley born 1792 [1]

Great Britain declares war on Germany 1914 [1]
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References

[1] Mary Emogene Hazeltine. Anniversaries and Holidays: A Calendar of Days and How to Observe Them. American Library Association, Chicago. 1928.

[2] William J. Bennett and John T.E.. Cribb. The American Patriot's Almanac. Thomas Nelson, Nashville. 2008.

[3] Mary E. Hazeltine, Judith K. Sollenberger (ed.). Anniversaries and Holidays: A Calendar of Days and How to Observe Them Second Edition, Completely Revised. American Library Association, Chicago. 1965.