Page 7: Historical Events In August - 02

1980  US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships on August - 02.   

1980  Verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies on this day in history.   

1982  Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93 on August - 02.   

1983  STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad on this day in history.   

1983  US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination on this day in history.   

1985  5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo on this day in history.   

1985  On this day in history nASA launches space vehicle S-209   

1985  On this day in history frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79   

1986  On August - 02 jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)   

1986  Roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies on this day in history.   

1987  Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3") on this day in history.   

1987  Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) on August - 02.   

1987  Myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

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

1988  System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC) on this day in history.   

1988  Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50 on August - 02.   

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  On this day in history iraq invades Kuwait   

1990  Iraq Invades Kuwait - leading to Operation Desert Storm on this day in history.   

1991  On this day in history funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges   

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

1991  On August - 02 gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen   

1992  Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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 August - 02 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  On this day in history new larger crypto-currency Bitcoin Cash created   

2018  On this day in history apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value   

2018  On August - 02 fields Medal for mathematics awarded to Caucher Birkar (his stolen minutes later), Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh   

2018  On this day in history pope Frances declares the death penalty unacceptable in all cases, reversing church teachings and adding to Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church   

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

1533  Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588) was born on this day in history.   

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

1632  Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner) was born on this day in history.   

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 August - 02.   

1696  Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia was born on August - 02.   

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 this day in history.   

0640  Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies on this day in history.   

0686  John V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies on August - 02.   

0924  Death of Ælfweard of Wessex on August - 02.   

1002  On this day in history abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64   

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.