Today in History

Today in History Today is Monday, Aug. 2, the 214th day of 2021. There are 151 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On August 2, 1939, Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program. On this date: In 1610, during his fourth voyage to the Western Hemisphere, English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into what is now known as Hudson Bay. In 1776, members of the Second Continental Congress began attaching their signatures to the Declaration of Independence. In 1862, the Ambulance Corps for the Army of the Potomac was created at the order of Maj. Gen. George McClellan during the Civil War. In 1873, inventor Andrew S. Hallidie (HAH’-lih-day) successfully tested a cable car he had designed for the city of San Francisco. In 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”...

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Stocks To Watch: Tata Motors, Hero MotoCorp, UPL

Tata Motors' sales in the domestic and international market jumped to 54,119 vehicles in July 2021 from 27,711 units in the same month last year

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Sensex, Nifty Likely To Have A Gap-Up Opening; HDFC In Focus

Asian shares face another tough week as Beijing's regulatory crackdown fans fears about China's economy, though upbeat economic data in the United States and Europe and solid corporate earnings put a...

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Petrol, Diesel Prices Unchanged For 15th Straight Day

In the national capital, petrol prices were steady at Rs 101.84 per litre and diesel rates were unchanged at Rs 89.87 per litre,according to data by Indian Oil Corporation

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4 killed in helicopter crash in remote California region

The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate.

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Flood watches in US West as mudslides close major interstate

Colorado officials say mudslides caused “extreme damage” to a major interstate, leaving it clogged with boulders and rocks and no word on when it might reopen

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North Dakota man to stand trial in attack that killed 4

More than two years after four employees of a North Dakota property management firm were slain, the man charged in their deaths is going on trial

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Evacuations lifted as progress made against western fires

Firefighters in Oregon reported good progress in the battle against the nation’s largest wildfire, while authorities canceled evacuation orders near a major blaze in Northern California

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Pharmaceutical plant idled despite effort to save jobs

A West Virginia pharmaceutical plant that employed nearly 1,500 people has been idled despite a last-ditch attempt by labor and advocacy groups to keep it open

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Smoke triggers pollution alerts in US West, Midwest

Air quality alerts were posted for numerous areas of the U.S. West and Midwest.

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Young TikTok star shot in California movie theater dies

A young TikTok star who had been on life support after being shot inside a Southern California movie theater has died

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Man sentenced to 2 life terms in 2019 double murder, arson

A man prosecutors said baked and took cookies to the home of a 97-year-old bedridden woman before killing her and her adult son and setting fire to their eastern Pennsylvania home has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole

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Maruti Suzuki Sales Rise 39% To Reach 1.36 Lakh Units In July 2021

Maruti Suzuki Sales: Maruti's sale of 1.36 lakh units was higher than 97,768 units which it had sold in July 2020.

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