The 214th day of 2025 is today, Saturday, August 2. The year has 151 days remaining.
Seven former Chicago White Sox baseball players and two others were found not guilty by a Chicago jury on August 2, 1921, of conspiring to defraud the public in the infamous Black Sox scandal. Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis would later ban them from Major League Baseball for life.
Under Thomas Jefferson’s direction, the first United States census was conducted in 1790. Of the 3,929,214 persons surveyed, almost 700,000 were enslaved.
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A cable vehicle that inventor Andrew S. Hallidie had created for the city of San Francisco was successfully tested in 1873.
Jack McCall, who was eventually hung, shot and killed frontiersman Wild Bill Hickok in 1876 while he was playing cards at a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory.
Warren G. Harding, the 29th president of the United States, passed away in San Francisco in 1923, and Vice President Calvin Coolidge took over as president.
The death of German President Paul von Hindenburg in 1934 opened the door for Adolf Hitler to seize power.
The Potsdam conference was ended in 1945 by Soviet leader Josef Stalin, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman.
For his role in the Watergate cover-up, former White House attorney John W. Dean III received a sentence of one to four years in jail in 1974. (Dean ultimately served four months.)
Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, crashed during an attempt to land at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in 1985, killing 137 people.
Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 and took over the oil-rich emirate. (The United States later used Operation Desert Storm to drive the Iraqis out.)
- Author Isabel Allende is 83.
- Actor Butch Patrick (TV: The Munsters ) is 72.
- Rock music producer/drummer Butch Vig is 70.
- Actor Mary-Louise Parker is 61.
- Filmmaker Kevin Smith is 55.
- Actor Sam Worthington is 49.
- Actor Edward Furlong is 48.
- Actor Lily Gladstone is 39.
- Singer Charli XCX is 33.
- Olympic swimming gold medalist Simone Manuel is 29.
