Page 7: Historical Events In August - 02

1980  US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships on this day in history.   

1980  Verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies on this day in history.   

1982  On this day in history cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93   

1983  On this day in history sTS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad   

1983  On August - 02 uS District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination   

1985  On this day in history 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo   

1985  NASA launches space vehicle S-209 on this day in history.   

1985  Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79 on this day in history.   

1986  On August - 02 jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)   

1986  Roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies on this day in history.   

1987  Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3") on August - 02.   

1987  Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) on this day in history.   

1987  On this day in history myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79   

1988  On August - 02 raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo   

1988  System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC) on this day in history.   

1988  On this day in history raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50   

1989  On this day in history nASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24   

1990  Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait on August - 02.   

1990  On August - 02 iraq invades Kuwait   

1990  On this day in history iraq Invades Kuwait - leading to Operation Desert Storm   

1991  Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges on this day in history.   

1991  Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA on August - 02.   

1991  Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen on August - 02.   

1992  Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies on this day in history.   

2005  On this day in history air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after overshooting the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport; all aboard survive.   

2012  On August - 02 23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan   

2013  On this day in history 40 people are killed after an ammunition depot explodes in Homs, Syria   

2017  First successful gene editing in human embryos to repair disease-causing mutation reported by scientists in "Nature" on August - 02.   

2017  On August - 02 uS President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them   

2017  On August - 02 great Britain's Prince Philip aged 96 makes his final solo public appearance before retiring from public engagements   

2017  New larger crypto-currency Bitcoin Cash created on this day in history.   

2018  On August - 02 apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value   

2018  Fields Medal for mathematics awarded to Caucher Birkar (his stolen minutes later), Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh on August - 02.   

2018  Pope Frances declares the death penalty unacceptable in all cases, reversing church teachings and adding to Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church on this day in history.   

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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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

0686  On August - 02 john V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies   

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 August - 02.   

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 this day in history.   

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