Historical Events In August - 02

1953  Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash on August - 02.   

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

1954  On this day in history rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42   

1955  USSR performs nuclear test on August - 02.   

1955  Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies on August - 02.   

1956  Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109 on August - 02.   

1958  Jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months on August - 02.   

1958  On August - 02 joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80   

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

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

1961  On this day in history beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club   

1961  St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto on August - 02.   

1961  On this day in history beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club   

1961  On August - 02 giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64   

1962  On August - 02 nASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m   

1963  Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 61 on August - 02.   

1964  North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin and so it starts on August - 02.   

1964  Race riot in Jersey City NJ on this day in history.   

1964  On August - 02 uS destroyer attacked by Vietnamese torpedo boats in Gulf of Tonkin   

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 August - 02 milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49   

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

1967  On August - 02 uS's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5   

1967  On August - 02 claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77   

1969  Clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96 on this day in history.   

1971  On August - 02 ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77   

1972  On this day in history gold hits record $70 an ounce in London   

1972  Brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29 on this day in history.   

1973  Jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1976  Fritz Lang, director (Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85 on August - 02.   

1978  On August - 02 carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79   

1979  Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway on August - 02.   

1979  Thurmon Munson, NY Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32 on August - 02.   

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1455  On August - 02 birth of johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99)   

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  On August - 02 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  Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723) was born on August - 02.   

1696  On this day in history birth of mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia   

1703  On August - 02 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  On August - 02 john V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies   

0924  Death of Ælfweard of Wessex on August - 02.   

1002  Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1075  On this day in history john VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies   

1100  Death of William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44 on August - 02.   

1222  Death of Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156) on August - 02.