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Welcome to Newsday. Today is Sunday, Aug. 2, the 214th day of 1998.
On this date in history, in 1876: Frontiersman (Wild Bill) Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood, S.D. . . . 1923: The 29th president of the United States, Warren G. Harding, died in San Francisco . . . 1934: German President Paul von Hindenburg died, paving the way for Adolf Hitler's complete takeover . . . 1939: Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging creation of...