Historical Events In August - 02

1864  2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens on this day in history.   

1865  Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" on this day in history.   

1865  On August - 02 irving Babbitt, US writer (Rousseau & Romanticism)   

1867  On August - 02 ernest C Dowson, British poet   

1868  On this day in history constantine I, king of Greece   

1869  On this day in history alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+   

1870  On this day in history tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.   

1872  On August - 02 judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59   

1873  On this day in history the first trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones   

1873  On this day in history 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones   

1873  Frank Mori, composer, dies at 53 on August - 02.   

1875  1st roller skating rink opens (London) on this day in history.   

1876  On August - 02 wild Bill Hickok draws the Dead Man's Hand - a pair of aces and a pair of eights, when he was shot   

1876  Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's on this day in history.   

1877  SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes on August - 02.   

1878  On August - 02 aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales)   

1881  On August - 02 ethel Mary Dell, English author (Storm Drift)   

1881  On this day in history marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35   

1882  Johannes Tralow, writer on August - 02.   

1884  On August - 02 dutch Queen Emma appointed regent   

1886  On August - 02 john Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian Aviator ( d. 1961)   

1887  Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire on this day in history.   

1888  Oscar Rasbach, composer on this day in history.   

1890  Pauline Hall, composer on this day in history.   

1891  Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, London, composer (Olympians) on this day in history.   

1892  Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator on August - 02.   

1892  On this day in history jack Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros)   

1894  Death duties 1st introduced in Britain on August - 02.   

1895  On August - 02 matthew Henderson, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in NZ's 1st Test)   

1899  On August - 02 charles Bennett, screenwriter   

1900  On this day in history helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause)   

1903  On August - 02 unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey   

1903  On this day in history martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies   

1905  On this day in history karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer   

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

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  Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner) was born on August - 02.   

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  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 this day in history.   

0686  On August - 02 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 August - 02.   

1075  John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies on this day in history.   

1100  On this day in history 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 this day in history.