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Today in American History - August 2

By Martin Kelly, About.com

Events:


1610 - Henry Hudson sailed into Hudson Bay.

1943 - John F. Kennedy was aboard PT-109 when it sunk.

1945 - The Potsdam Conference, the final allied summit of World War II, ended.

1964 - A torpedo attack on the navy ship Maddox occurred in the Tonkin Gulf.

Births:


1924 - James Baldwin

Deaths:


1859 - Horace Mann

1876 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickock

1922 - Alexander Graham Bell

1923 - Warren G. Harding

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