Historical Events In August - 02

1864  On August - 02 2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens   

1865  On August - 02 lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"   

1865  On this day in history irving Babbitt, US writer (Rousseau & Romanticism)   

1867  Ernest C Dowson, British poet on August - 02.   

1868  Constantine I, king of Greece on this day in history.   

1869  Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+ on this day in history.   

1870  On August - 02 tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.   

1872  On August - 02 judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59   

1873  On August - 02 the first trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones   

1873  1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones on this day in history.   

1873  On this day in history frank Mori, composer, dies at 53   

1875  1st roller skating rink opens (London) on this day in history.   

1876  On August - 02 wild Bill Hickok draws the Dead Man's Hand - a pair of aces and a pair of eights, when he was shot   

1876  On this day in history wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's   

1877  SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes on August - 02.   

1878  On this day in history aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales)   

1881  On August - 02 ethel Mary Dell, English author (Storm Drift)   

1881  On August - 02 marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35   

1882  Johannes Tralow, writer on this day in history.   

1884  On August - 02 dutch Queen Emma appointed regent   

1886  On August - 02 john Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian Aviator ( d. 1961)   

1887  On this day in history rowell Hodge patents barbed wire   

1888  Oscar Rasbach, composer on August - 02.   

1890  On August - 02 pauline Hall, composer   

1891  Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, London, composer (Olympians) on this day in history.   

1892  Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator on this day in history.   

1892  On August - 02 jack Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros)   

1894  Death duties 1st introduced in Britain on August - 02.   

1895  On this day in history matthew Henderson, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in NZ's 1st Test)   

1899  On August - 02 charles Bennett, screenwriter   

1900  On this day in history helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause)   

1903  On this day in history unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey   

1903  On this day in history martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies   

1905  Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer 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 this day in history.   

1627  On this day in history birth of samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter   

1632  On this day in history birth of kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner)   

1672  On this day in history birth of johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)   

1674  On this day in history birth of philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)   

1696  On this day in history 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 August - 02 stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies   

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

0686  On August - 02 john V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies   

0924  On this day in history death of Ælfweard of Wessex   

1002  Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1075  On this day in history john VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies   

1100  On August - 02 death of william II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44   

1222  Death of Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156) on August - 02.