Historical Events In August - 02

1980  On this day in history uS swimmers set 3 world records at National championships   

1980  On this day in history verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies   

1982  Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93 on this day in history.   

1983  On this day in history sTS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad   

1983  On this day in history uS District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination   

1985  On August - 02 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo   

1985  NASA launches space vehicle S-209 on August - 02.   

1985  On August - 02 frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79   

1986  Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts) on August - 02.   

1986  On this day in history roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies   

1987  Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3") on August - 02.   

1987  Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) on this day in history.   

1987  On this day in history myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79   

1988  On August - 02 raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo   

1988  System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC) on August - 02.   

1988  Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50 on this day in history.   

1989  On August - 02 nASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24   

1990  On this day in history iraq invades & occupies Kuwait   

1990  Iraq invades Kuwait on August - 02.   

1990  On August - 02 iraq Invades Kuwait - leading to Operation Desert Storm   

1991  Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges on August - 02.   

1991  Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA on August - 02.   

1991  Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen on this day in history.   

1992  On August - 02 ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies   

2005  On August - 02 air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after overshooting the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport; all aboard survive.   

2012  23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan on August - 02.   

2013  40 people are killed after an ammunition depot explodes in Homs, Syria on August - 02.   

2017  First successful gene editing in human embryos to repair disease-causing mutation reported by scientists in "Nature" on this day in history.   

2017  On this day in history uS President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them   

2017  On August - 02 great Britain's Prince Philip aged 96 makes his final solo public appearance before retiring from public engagements   

2017  New larger crypto-currency Bitcoin Cash created on August - 02.   

2018  On August - 02 apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value   

2018  Fields Medal for mathematics awarded to Caucher Birkar (his stolen minutes later), Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh on this day in history.   

2018  Pope Frances declares the death penalty unacceptable in all cases, reversing church teachings and adding to Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church 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  Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588) was born on August - 02.   

1627  Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter was born on this day in history.   

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

1672  Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733) was born on August - 02.   

1674  Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723) was born on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies   

0640  On August - 02 severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies   

0686  John V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies on this day in history.   

0924  On August - 02 death of Ælfweard of Wessex   

1002  Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64 on August - 02.   

1075  John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies on August - 02.   

1100  On this day in history death of william II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44   

1222  On August - 02 death of count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)