Today in History: August 2, verdict in “Black Sox” trial

Today is Sunday, Aug. 2, the 214th day of 2026. There are 151 days left in the year.Today in history:On August 2, 1921, a jury in Chicago acquitted seven former members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team and two others of conspiring to defraud the public in the notorious “Black Sox” scandal (though they would later be banned from Major League Baseball for life by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis).Also on this date:In 1790, the first United States Census began under the supervision of Thomas Jefferson; a total of 3,929,214 people were counted in the census, nearly 700,000 of whom were enslaved.In 1873, inventor Andrew S. Hallidie successfully tested a cable car he had designed for the city of San Francisco.In 1876, frontiersman “Wild Bill” Hickok was shot and killed while playing po