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August 2 1921:
A jury in Chicago acquitted several former members of the Chicago White Sox and two others of conspiring to defraud the public by throwing the World Series. |
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August 3 1981:
U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike, despite a warning from President Ronald Reagan that they would be fired. |
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August 4 1916:
The United States reached agreement with Denmark to purchase the Danish Virgin Islands for $25 million. |
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August 5 1957:
American Bandstand, a show dedicated to playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network. It is hosted by Dick Clark. |
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August 5 1962:
Actress Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Los Angeles home at age 36. Her death was ruled a probable suicide from an overdose of sleeping pills. |
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1945: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The first atomic bomb is dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. |
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August 6 1965:
The album "Help!" by the Beatles was released. |
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1998: US embassies in Africa bombed
At least 200 people are killed and many more injured when US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are bombed within minutes of each other. |
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August 7 1957:
Oliver Hardy of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy died at age 65. |
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On Aug 7:
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000-km (4375-mile) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America. |
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