Page 6: 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 August - 02 rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42   

1955  On this day in history uSSR performs nuclear test   

1955  On August - 02 ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies   

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

1958  On August - 02 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 this day in history.   

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  Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club on August - 02.   

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

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

1963  Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

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

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

1964  US destroyer attacked by Vietnamese torpedo boats in Gulf of Tonkin on August - 02.   

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 August - 02.   

1965  Milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49 on August - 02.   

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

1967  On this day in history uS's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5   

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

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

1971  Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1972  Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London on August - 02.   

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 this day in history.   

1978  On this day in history carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79   

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

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

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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 this day in history.   

1627  On this day in history birth of samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter   

1632  On August - 02 birth of kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner)   

1672  Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733) was born on this day in history.   

1674  On this day in history 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 August - 02.   

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 August - 02 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 this day in history death of count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)