Wild Bill Hickok is killed, August 2, 1876
Hickok strolls into Nuttal and Mann’s Saloon, looking for a game of poker. He sits with three men he knows, with his back to the door. Jack McCall, a gambler known as Crooked Nose Jack, had played with Hickok the night before and had gotten cleaned out. He is at the bar when Hickok enters. Suddenly he draws his Colt .45 and shouts, “Damn you! Take that!” He shoots Hickok point blank in the back of the head. Hickok had just drawn aces and eights—known ever after as “the dead man’s hand.”