1776

Members of the Second Continental Congress began attaching their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.

1876

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.

1921

A jury in Chicago acquitted several former members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team and two others of conspiring to defraud the public in the notorious “Black Sox” scandal.

1923

President Warren G. Harding, died in San Francisco; Vice President Calvin Coolidge became president.