Today in History: August 2, verdict in “Black Sox” trial
The present day is Saturday Aug the th day of There are days left in the year This day in history On August a jury in Chicago acquitted seven former members of the Chicago White Sox baseball gang and two others of conspiring to defraud the population in the notorious Black Sox embarrassment though they would later be banned from Major League Baseball for life by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis Also on this date In the first United States Census began under the supervision of Thomas Jefferson a total of people were counted in the census nearly of whom were enslaved Related Articles Jury orders Tesla to pay more than million in Autopilot crash situation Manhunt launched after killed in a shooting at a Montana bar NFL on the verge of selling media assets to ESPN for an equity stake in the setup AP sources say Corporation for Residents Broadcasting to shut down after being defunded by Congress targeted by Trump Jeffrey Epstein s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell is transferred to a prison camp in Texas In inventor Andrew S Hallidie successfully tested a cable car he had designed for the city of San Francisco In frontiersman Wild Bill Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood Dakota Territory by Jack McCall who was later hanged In the th president of the United States Warren G Harding died in San Francisco Vice President Calvin Coolidge became president In German President Paul von Hindenburg died paving the way for Adolf Hitler s complete takeover In President Harry S Truman Soviet leader Josef Stalin and Britain s new prime minister Clement Attlee concluded the Potsdam conference In 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 In people were killed when Delta Air Lines Flight a Lockheed L- Tristar crashed while attempting to land at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport In Iraq invaded Kuwait seizing control of the oil-rich emirate The Iraqis were later driven out by the U S in Operation Desert Storm In the current era s Birthdays Author Isabel Allende is Actor Butch Patrick TV The Munsters is Rock music producer drummer Butch Vig is Actor Mary-Louise Parker is Filmmaker Kevin Smith is Actor Sam Worthington is Actor Edward Furlong is Actor Lily Gladstone is Singer Charli XCX is Olympic swimming gold medalist Simone Manuel is
