Historical Events In August - 02

1953  Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash on August - 02.   

1954  On August - 02 tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia   

1954  Rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42 on this day in history.   

1955  On August - 02 uSSR performs nuclear test   

1955  On this day in history ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies   

1956  Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109 on this day in history.   

1958  Jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months on this day in history.   

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

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

1959  Prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1961  Beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club on August - 02.   

1961  St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto on August - 02.   

1961  Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club on August - 02.   

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

1962  NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m on August - 02.   

1963  Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 61 on August - 02.   

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

1964  On this day in history race riot in Jersey City NJ   

1964  US destroyer attacked by Vietnamese torpedo boats in Gulf of Tonkin on August - 02.   

1964  Jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1965  Morley Safer's sends first Vietnam report indicating we are losing on August - 02.   

1965  Milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49 on this day in history.   

1966  Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting on August - 02.   

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  On this day in history clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96   

1971  On August - 02 ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77   

1972  Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London on August - 02.   

1972  Brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29 on this day in history.   

1973  Jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57 on August - 02.   

1976  On August - 02 fritz Lang, director (Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85   

1978  On this day in history carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79   

1979  Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway on August - 02.   

1979  Thurmon Munson, NY Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32 on August - 02.   

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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  On August - 02 birth of kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner)   

1672  Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733) was born on this day in history.   

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

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

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

0924  Death of Ælfweard of Wessex on this day in history.   

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  Death of William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44 on August - 02.   

1222  On August - 02 death of count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)