Historical Events In August - 02

1980  US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships on this day in history.   

1980  On August - 02 verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies   

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  On August - 02 uS District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination   

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

1985  On August - 02 nASA launches space vehicle S-209   

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

1986  Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts) on this day in history.   

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

1987  On August - 02 don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")   

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

1987  On August - 02 myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79   

1988  Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo on August - 02.   

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

1988  On this day in history raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50   

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 August - 02 iraq invades Kuwait   

1990  Iraq Invades Kuwait - leading to Operation Desert Storm on August - 02.   

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

1991  On August - 02 hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA   

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

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

2005  Air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after overshooting the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport; all aboard survive on this day in history.   

2012  On this day in history 23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan   

2013  On this day in history 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 August - 02.   

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 this day in history.   

2018  On this day in history 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 August - 02.   

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  On this day in history birth of johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99)   

1533  On August - 02 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 August - 02 birth of johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)   

1674  On August - 02 birth of philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)   

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

0640  Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies on August - 02.   

0686  On this day in history john V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies   

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