August 2
1876:Wild Bill Hickok was murdered in Deadwood, S.D.
1909:The first Lincoln penny was issued.
1943:PT-109, a torpedo boat commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, was sunk off the Solomon Islands by a Japanese destroyer.
1945:The Potsdam Conference, in which Allied leaders planned the postwar governance of Germany, ended.
1990:The Persian Gulf War broke out when Iraq invaded Kuwait.
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