Page 7: Historical Events In August - 02

1980  On August - 02 uS swimmers set 3 world records at National championships   

1980  On August - 02 verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies   

1982  On August - 02 cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93   

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

1983  US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination on this day in history.   

1985  On August - 02 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo   

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

1985  On this day in history frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79   

1986  Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts) on this day in history.   

1986  On this day in history roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies   

1987  On August - 02 don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")   

1987  Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) on August - 02.   

1987  On August - 02 myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79   

1988  Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo on August - 02.   

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  Iraq invades Kuwait on this day in history.   

1990  On August - 02 iraq Invades Kuwait - leading to Operation Desert Storm   

1991  On this day in history funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges   

1991  Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA on this day in history.   

1991  On August - 02 gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen   

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

2005  On August - 02 air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after overshooting the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport; all aboard survive.   

2012  23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan on this day in history.   

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

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

2017  On August - 02 new larger crypto-currency Bitcoin Cash created   

2018  Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value on August - 02.   

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

2018  On August - 02 pope Frances declares the death penalty unacceptable in all cases, reversing church teachings and adding to Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church   

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1455  On this day in history birth of johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99)   

1533  On August - 02 birth of theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)   

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

1632  Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner) was born on this day in history.   

1672  Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733) was born on August - 02.   

1674  On this day in history birth of philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)   

1696  Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia was born on this day in history.   

1703  Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775) was born on August - 02.   

0257  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

0924  On this day in history death of Ælfweard of Wessex   

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

1075  On this day in history 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  Death of Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156) on this day in history.