Page 6: Historical Events In August - 02

1953  On August - 02 betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash   

1954  On August - 02 tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia   

1954  Rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42 on August - 02.   

1955  On August - 02 uSSR performs nuclear test   

1955  Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies on this day in history.   

1956  Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109 on this day in history.   

1958  On this day in history jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months   

1958  On this day in history joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80   

1959  41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC on August - 02.   

1959  Prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78 on August - 02.   

1961  Beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club on August - 02.   

1961  On August - 02 st Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto   

1961  Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club on this day in history.   

1961  On this day in history giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64   

1962  On this day in history nASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m   

1963  On August - 02 oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 61   

1964  On this day in history north Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin and so it starts   

1964  Race riot in Jersey City NJ on August - 02.   

1964  US destroyer attacked by Vietnamese torpedo boats in Gulf of Tonkin on this day in history.   

1964  Jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1965  Morley Safer's sends first Vietnam report indicating we are losing on this day in history.   

1965  On this day in history milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49   

1966  Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting on this day in history.   

1967  US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5 on August - 02.   

1967  On this day in history claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77   

1969  Clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96 on August - 02.   

1971  On this day in history ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77   

1972  Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London on this day in history.   

1972  On this day in history brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29   

1973  On August - 02 jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57   

1976  On August - 02 fritz Lang, director (Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85   

1978  Carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79 on August - 02.   

1979  On this day in history gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway   

1979  On this day in history thurmon Munson, NY Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32   

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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 this day in history birth of samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter   

1632  On this day in history birth of kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner)   

1672  On this day in history birth of johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)   

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 this day in history.   

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 August - 02.   

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 August - 02.   

1100  On August - 02 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 August - 02.