Page 7: Historical Events In August - 02

1980  US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships on August - 02.   

1980  Verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies on August - 02.   

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

1983  On August - 02 sTS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad   

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

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

1985  NASA launches space vehicle S-209 on August - 02.   

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

1986  Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts) on August - 02.   

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

1987  Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3") on this day in history.   

1987  On August - 02 michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)   

1987  On August - 02 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  Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50 on this day in history.   

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

1990  On this day in history iraq invades & occupies Kuwait   

1990  Iraq invades Kuwait on August - 02.   

1990  On this day in history 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 August - 02.   

1991  Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen on this day in history.   

1992  On this day in history ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies   

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

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

2017  On this day in history uS President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them   

2017  Great Britain's Prince Philip aged 96 makes his final solo public appearance before retiring from public engagements on this day in history.   

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

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1455  Johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99) was born on August - 02.   

1533  On this day in history birth of theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)   

1627  On August - 02 birth of samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter   

1632  Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner) was born on August - 02.   

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

1674  On August - 02 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  On this day in history birth of lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)   

0257  On this day in history 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 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 this day in history death of william II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44   

1222  On August - 02 death of count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)