Birth anniversary of Wild Bill Hickok (1837-76). Shot dead at a poker table at Deadwood, Dakota Territory, on Aug 2, 1876—holding two black aces, two black eights and one other card—now called the “dead man’s hand.”
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Birth anniversaries of Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), Humphrey (1911-78), Vincent Price (1911-93)
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Happy Birthday! Joseph Fiennes, Louis Gossett Jr, Ramsey Lewis
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1907 - The Bubonic Plague broke out in San Francisco.
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1933 - In the U.S., the Federal Securities Act was signed. The act required the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed an "unlimited national emergency" amid rising world tensions.
1941 - The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by British naval and air forces. 2,300 people were killed.
1942 - German General Erwin Rommel began a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps.
1969 - Construction of Walt Disney World began in Florida.
1986 - Mel Fisher recovered a jar that contained 2,300 emeralds from the Spanish ship Atocha. The ship sank in the 17th century.
1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones could continue while President Clinton was in office.
1999 - In The Hague, Netherlands, a war crimes tribunal indicted Slobodan Milosevic and four others for atrocities in Kosovo. It was the first time that a sitting head of state had been charged with such a crime.
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