Page 3: Historical Events In August - 02

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

1865  Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" on August - 02.   

1865  On this day in history irving Babbitt, US writer (Rousseau & Romanticism)   

1867  On this day in history ernest C Dowson, British poet   

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

1869  Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+ on this day in history.   

1870  On August - 02 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  On this day in history 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones   

1873  On August - 02 frank Mori, composer, dies at 53   

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

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 August - 02.   

1877  SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes on this day in history.   

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

1881  Ethel Mary Dell, English author (Storm Drift) on this day in history.   

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

1887  Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire on August - 02.   

1888  On August - 02 oscar Rasbach, composer   

1890  Pauline Hall, composer on August - 02.   

1891  On August - 02 arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, London, composer (Olympians)   

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

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

1894  Death duties 1st introduced in Britain on this day in history.   

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

1899  Charles Bennett, screenwriter on this day in history.   

1900  On August - 02 helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause)   

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

1903  Martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies on this day in history.   

1905  Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer on this day in history.   

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

1533  Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588) was born on August - 02.   

1627  Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter was born on this day in history.   

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  Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723) was born on this day in history.   

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

0640  On this day in history severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies   

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

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 this day in history.   

1075  John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies on August - 02.   

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.