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Today is Sunday, Aug. 2, the 214th day of 2026. There are 151 days left in the year.<\/p>\n

Read more With trade deadline looming, SF Giants\u2019 Arraez scratched from Saturday\u2019s lineup due to cramping<\/a><\/p>\n

Today in history:<\/h4>\n

On August 2, 1876, frontiersman \u201cWild Bill\u201d Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Jack McCall, who was later hanged.<\/p>\n

Also on this date:<\/h4>\n

In 1790, the first United States Census began under the supervision of Thomas Jefferson; a total of 3,929,214 people were counted in the census, nearly 700,000 of whom were enslaved.<\/p>\n

In 1873, inventor Andrew S. Hallidie successfully tested a cable car he had designed for the city of San Francisco.<\/p>\n

In 1921, a jury in Chicago acquitted seven former members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team and two others of conspiring to defraud the public in the notorious \u201cBlack Sox\u201d scandal (though they would later be banned from Major League Baseball for life by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis).<\/p>\n

In 1923, the 29th president of the United States, Warren G. Harding, died in San Francisco; Vice President Calvin Coolidge became president.<\/p>\n

In 1934, German President Paul von Hindenburg died, paving the way for Adolf Hitler\u2019s complete takeover.<\/p>\n

Read more Capital One cites money laundering review in Trump-related suit<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1945, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and Britain\u2019s new prime minister, Clement Attlee, concluded the Potsdam conference.<\/p>\n

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In 1974, former White House counsel John W. Dean III was sentenced to one to four years in prison for obstruction of justice in the Watergate cover-up. (Dean ended up serving four months.)<\/p>\n

In 1985, 137 people were killed when Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, crashed while attempting to land at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.<\/p>\n

In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich emirate. (The Iraqis were driven out of Kuwait months later in 1991 by a U.S.-led military coalition in Operation Desert Storm.)<\/p>\n

In 2014, a suspected dust explosion at an auto parts factory in eastern China that supplies General Motors killed 146 people in the country\u2019s worst industrial accident in years. The blast happened at Zhongrong Metal Products Co. Ltd. in Kunshan.<\/p>\n

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In 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden announced al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri was killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan two days earlier. Al-Zawahri and Osama bin Laden, who was killed by U.S. forces in 2011, had plotted the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States.<\/p>\n

Read more Dodgers land Cy Young ace Tarik Skubal in a blockbuster deadline deal<\/a><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/h4>\n
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  • Author Isabel Allende is 84.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Butch Patrick (TV: \u201cThe Munsters\u201d) is 73.<\/li>\n
  • Rock music producer\/drummer Butch Vig is 71.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Mary-Louise Parker is 62.<\/li>\n
  • Filmmaker Kevin Smith is 56.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Sam Worthington is 50.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Edward Furlong is 49.<\/li>\n
  • U.S. President JD Vance is 42.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Lily Gladstone is 40.<\/li>\n
  • Singer Charli XCX is 34.<\/li>\n
  • Olympic swimming gold medalist Simone Manuel is 30.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Ayden Mekus is 21.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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