Page 3: Historical Events In August - 02

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

1865  On this day in history lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"   

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

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

1868  On August - 02 constantine I, king of Greece   

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

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

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

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

1875  On August - 02 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  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 this day in history ethel Mary Dell, English author (Storm Drift)   

1881  On August - 02 marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35   

1882  Johannes Tralow, writer on this day in history.   

1884  Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent on this day in history.   

1886  On this day in history john Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian Aviator ( d. 1961)   

1887  On August - 02 rowell Hodge patents barbed wire   

1888  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

1894  On August - 02 death duties 1st introduced in Britain   

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

1899  Charles Bennett, screenwriter on this day in history.   

1900  Helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause) on this day in history.   

1903  On August - 02 unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey   

1903  On August - 02 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 this day in history.   

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

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 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 August - 02.   

0257  Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies on this day in history.   

0640  Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies on this day in history.   

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

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

1002  On August - 02 abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64   

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

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)