Historical Events In August - 02

1980  On this day in history uS swimmers set 3 world records at National championships   

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 August - 02.   

1983  On this day in history 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  On August - 02 jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)   

1986  On this day in history roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies   

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 this day in history myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79   

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

1988  On this day in history system Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)   

1988  On August - 02 raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50   

1989  NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24 on August - 02.   

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 August - 02.   

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

1991  On this day in history 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 August - 02.   

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

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

2017  On this day in history first successful gene editing in human embryos to repair disease-causing mutation reported by scientists in "Nature"   

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 this day in history 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  Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value on August - 02.   

2018  Fields Medal for mathematics awarded to Caucher Birkar (his stolen minutes later), Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh on this day in history.   

2018  On August - 02 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 August - 02 birth of johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99)   

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 August - 02.   

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 this day in history.   

0257  Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies on August - 02.   

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

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

0924  On this day in history death of Ælfweard of Wessex   

1002  Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64 on August - 02.   

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