Page 6: Historical Events In August - 02

1953  On August - 02 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  On August - 02 rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42   

1955  On August - 02 uSSR performs nuclear test   

1955  On August - 02 ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies   

1956  On this day in history albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109   

1958  On August - 02 jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months   

1958  Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80 on August - 02.   

1959  41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC on August - 02.   

1959  On August - 02 prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78   

1961  Beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club on this day in history.   

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

1961  On August - 02 beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club   

1961  On this day in history giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64   

1962  On August - 02 nASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m   

1963  On August - 02 oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 61   

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

1964  Race riot in Jersey City NJ on this day in history.   

1964  On August - 02 uS destroyer attacked by Vietnamese torpedo boats in Gulf of Tonkin   

1964  On August - 02 jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69   

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

1965  On this day in history milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49   

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

1967  US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5 on this day in history.   

1967  On August - 02 claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77   

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 this day in history gold hits record $70 an ounce in London   

1972  On this day in history brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29   

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 August - 02.   

1978  On August - 02 carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79   

1979  Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway on this day in history.   

1979  On August - 02 thurmon Munson, NY Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32   

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1455  Johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99) was born on August - 02.   

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

1627  On August - 02 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  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  Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies on August - 02.   

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

0924  Death of Ælfweard of Wessex on August - 02.   

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

1222  On this day in history death of count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)