Page 3: Historical Events In August - 02

1864  2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens on August - 02.   

1865  On August - 02 lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"   

1865  Irving Babbitt, US writer (Rousseau & Romanticism) on this day in history.   

1867  On August - 02 ernest C Dowson, British poet   

1868  Constantine I, king of Greece on this day in history.   

1869  On August - 02 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  Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59 on August - 02.   

1873  The first trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones on August - 02.   

1873  1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones on August - 02.   

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

1875  1st roller skating rink opens (London) on August - 02.   

1876  On this day in history 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  On this day in history sF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes   

1878  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1884  On August - 02 dutch Queen Emma appointed regent   

1886  John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian Aviator ( d. 1961) on August - 02.   

1887  On August - 02 rowell Hodge patents barbed wire   

1888  On this day in history oscar Rasbach, composer   

1890  On this day in history pauline Hall, composer   

1891  Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, London, composer (Olympians) on August - 02.   

1892  Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator on this day in history.   

1892  Jack Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros) on August - 02.   

1894  On this day in history death duties 1st introduced in Britain   

1895  Matthew Henderson, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in NZ's 1st Test) on August - 02.   

1899  On this day in history charles Bennett, screenwriter   

1900  Helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause) on August - 02.   

1903  Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey on August - 02.   

1903  Martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies on August - 02.   

1905  On August - 02 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 this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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  On August - 02 stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies   

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

0686  John V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies on this day in history.   

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 this day in history death of william II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44   

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