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TiH! August 2!

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August 2, 1966 - It's the first Silver Age appearance of Jim Hammond, the original Human Torch, when Fantastic Four Annual #4 hits the stands...

https://www.comics.org/issue/20470

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August 2, 1965 - Look at Us, the debut album by pop duo Sonny & Cher, is released by Atco Records...

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August 2, 1964 - North Vietnam fires at US Navy destroyer USS Maddox in what becomes known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident which would eventually escalate US involvement in the Vietnam War...

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/hrnm/explore/VietnamExhibitPage/BeginningsReloadV1/GulfofTonkingReloadV3.html

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August 2, 1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 was passed in America, making marijuana and all its by-products illegal...

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August 2, 1909 - Army Air Corps forms as the Army takes first delivery from the Wright Brothers...

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/1919399/110-years-ago-the-us-military-got-its-first-airplane/

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August 2, 1864 - Saratoga Racecourse, America's oldest Thoroughbred racetrack, opens its inaugural meet with four days of racing...

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August 2, 1858 - First mailboxes installed on Boston and New York City streets...

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August 2, 1790 - First US census conducted, the population was 3,939,214 including 697,624 slaves...

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August 2, 1776 - Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence begins...

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August 2, 1610 - English explorer Henry Hudson enters the bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay...

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TiH! August 1!

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August 1, 1997 - Spawn, a superhero film based on the Image Comics character of the same name created by Todd McFarlane, is released through New Line Cinema...

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August 1, 1981 - MTV is launched at 12:01 AM...

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August 1, 1966 - Charles Whitman wounds 31 and kills 16 at the University of Texas. Considered the first modern US mass shooting...

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August 1, 1946 - US President Harry Truman establishes the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Oak Ridge (Tenn.) Atomic Plant was started on August 1, 1943...

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August 1, 1941 - The first Army Jeep is produced...