Historical Events In August - 02

1953  On this day in history betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash   

1954  On this day in history tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia   

1954  Rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42 on August - 02.   

1955  USSR performs nuclear test on this day in history.   

1955  Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies on this day in history.   

1956  On August - 02 albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109   

1958  Jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months on August - 02.   

1958  On this day in history joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80   

1959  41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC on this day in history.   

1959  Prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78 on August - 02.   

1961  On August - 02 beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club   

1961  On this day in history st Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto   

1961  Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club on August - 02.   

1961  Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64 on August - 02.   

1962  NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m on August - 02.   

1963  Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1964  North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin and so it starts on August - 02.   

1964  On this day in history race riot in Jersey City NJ   

1964  US destroyer attacked by Vietnamese torpedo boats in Gulf of Tonkin on August - 02.   

1964  Jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1965  On this day in history morley Safer's sends first Vietnam report indicating we are losing   

1965  Milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49 on August - 02.   

1966  On this day in history radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting   

1967  On August - 02 uS's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5   

1967  Claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77 on August - 02.   

1969  Clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96 on this day in history.   

1971  Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77 on August - 02.   

1972  On August - 02 gold hits record $70 an ounce in London   

1972  Brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29 on August - 02.   

1973  On this day in history jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57   

1976  Fritz Lang, director (Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85 on this day in history.   

1978  Carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1979  On this day in history gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway   

1979  Thurmon Munson, NY Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32 on this day in history.   

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1455  On this day in history birth of johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99)   

1533  On August - 02 birth of theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)   

1627  On August - 02 birth of samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter   

1632  On August - 02 birth of kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner)   

1672  Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733) was born on this day in history.   

1674  On August - 02 birth of philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)   

1696  On August - 02 birth of mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia   

1703  On this day in history birth of lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)   

0257  Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies on August - 02.   

0640  Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies on August - 02.   

0686  On this day in history john V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies   

0924  On this day in history death of Ælfweard of Wessex   

1002  On August - 02 abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64   

1075  On August - 02 john VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies   

1100  Death of William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44 on this day in history.   

1222  Death of Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156) on this day in history.