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What happened in history on this day: August 2?
On August 2 in ...
- 1776 - Formal signing of the American Declaration of Independence.
- 1813 - Congress taxes bank note circulation 1-2 percent.
- 1819 - First parachute jump in US.
- 1832 - 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac and Fox Indians, ending Black Hawk War.
- 1832 - Black Hawk is defeated (in Iowa).
- 1832 - Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisconsin.
- 1858 - First street mailboxes-Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- 1864 - Second Saratoga Racetrack (New York) opens.
- 1876 - In Deadwood, South Dakota, James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, playing poker in Carl Mann's saloon, is shot dead (from behind) by Jack "Crooked Nose" McCall, for no apparent reason. Hickok reportedly held a pair of Aces and a pair of eights, which becomes known as the Dead Man's Hand.
- 1909 - The US Mint releases the Lincoln cent to circulation.
- 1909 - Army Air Corps formed as Army takes first delivery from Wright Brothers.
- 1932 - Carl Anderson of CalTech discovers the anti-electron, the positron.
- 1939 - Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers.
- 1964 - North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin.
- 1964 - Race riot in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.
- 1965 - Morley Safer sends first Vietnam report indicating US is losing war.
- 1967 - US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit August 5.
- 1985 - Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes near Dallas, Texas, killing 137 people.
- 1989 - NASA confirms Voyager 2's discovery of three more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 and 1989 N24.
- 1990 - US President signs executive order banning importation of ancient coins and antiquities from Iraq.
- 2001 - Robert Mueller is confirmed as the new FBI director.
- 2002 - The US Mint releases the 2002 Indiana quarter dollar to circulation.
- 2019 - The United States officially withdraws from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty established with Russia in 1987.
Births on August 2
- 1892 - Birth of John Kieran in New York City, New York, USA; columnist/author (Natural History of New York City).
- 1905 - Birth of Myrna Loy in Montana, USA; actress (Rebound, Emma).
- 1910 - Birth of Lou Zara in New York City, New York, USA; writer (Stump the Authors).
- 1914 - Birth of Gary Merrill in Hartford, Connecticut, USA; actor (Young Dr Kildare, All About Eve).
- 1916 - Birth of Beatrice Straight in Old Westbury, New York, USA; actress (Poltergeist, Nun's Story).
- 1922 - Birth of Carroll O'Connor in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Archie Bunker - All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night).
- 1939 - Birth of Edward Pattern in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; singer (Gladys Knight and the Pips).
- 1944 - Birth of Joanna Cassidy [Caskey] in Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA; actress (240 Robert).
- 1950 - Birth of Kathryn Harrold in Tarzewell, Virginia, USA; actress (MacGruder and Loud).
- 1951 - Birth of Andrew Gold in Burbank, California, USA; rocker (Lonely Boy).
- 1952 - Birth of Paul David Crews in South Carolina, USA; murderer (FBI Most Wanted List).
- 1955 - Birth of Roberta Wallach in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Civil Wars).
- 1959 - Birth of Britt Helfer in Utah, USA; actress (Lily - Loving, Alley Cat).
- 1960 - Birth of Apollonia [Patricia Kotero] in Santa Monica, California, USA; actress (Purple Rain).
- 1967 - Birth of Aaron Krickstein in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; tennis player (Tel Aviv 1983).
- 1967 - Birth of Derek Wells in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Fitzpatricks).
- 1973 - Birth of Kia Goodwin in Livingston, New Jersey, USA; actress (Tiffany Holloway-227).
- 1977 - Birth of Edward Furlong in Pasedina, California; actor (John Connor - Terminator 2).
Deaths on August 2
- 1876 - In Deadwood, South Dakota, James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, playing poker in Carl Mann's saloon, is shot dead (from behind) by Jack "Crooked Nose" McCall, for no apparent reason. Hickok reportedly held a pair of Aces and a pair of eights, which becomes known as the Dead Man's Hand.
- 1923 - Former US President Warren Harding dies at Palace Hotel, San Francisco, California.
- 1972 - Death of Rudolph Ganz in Chicago, Illinois (born in Zürich, Switzerland); German/American composer/conductor.
- 1976 - Death of Fritz Lang in Los Angeles, California (born in Vienna, Austria); German film maker der Spieler (1922), Die Nibelungen (1924), Metropolis (1926), Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1932), Fury (1936), Western Union (1941), and Hangmen also Die (1943).
- 1979 - Thurmon Munson, catcher for the New York Yankees, is killed in a plane crash at Akron, Ohio at age 32 (born 1947).
- 1986 - Death of Roy Cohn, American lawyer and anti-Communist (born 1927).
- 1988 - Raymond Carver, American poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at age 50 (born 1938).
- 1998 - Death of Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (born 1933).
- 2016 - Death of Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American Nobel chemist (born 1946).
- 2022 - Death of Vin Scully at age 94 at home in Los Angeles, California, USA; broadcaster (voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers MLB baseball team for 67 years).
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