Page 3: Historical Events In August - 02

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

1865  Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" on August - 02.   

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

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

1868  On this day in history constantine I, king of Greece   

1869  On August - 02 alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+   

1870  Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London on this day in history.   

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

1873  On this day in history 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 August - 02.   

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

1875  On August - 02 1st roller skating rink opens (London)   

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

1876  Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's on August - 02.   

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

1878  Aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales) on August - 02.   

1881  On this day in history 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  John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian Aviator ( d. 1961) on August - 02.   

1887  On this day in history rowell Hodge patents barbed wire   

1888  On this day in history oscar Rasbach, composer   

1890  On August - 02 pauline Hall, composer   

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

1892  On this day in history charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator   

1892  Jack Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros) on this day in history.   

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

1895  Matthew Henderson, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in NZ's 1st Test) on August - 02.   

1899  Charles Bennett, screenwriter on August - 02.   

1900  Helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause) on August - 02.   

1903  Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey on August - 02.   

1903  Martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies on August - 02.   

1905  On August - 02 karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer   

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1455  Johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99) was born on this day in history.   

1533  On this day in history birth of theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)   

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

1632  Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner) was born on August - 02.   

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

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

1696  On this day in history birth of mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia   

1703  Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775) was born on August - 02.   

0257  On August - 02 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 August - 02.   

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 this day in history.   

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 August - 02.   

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