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  Rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42 on August - 02.   

1955  On this day in history uSSR performs nuclear test   

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

1956  On this day in history albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109   

1958  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1959  On this day in history prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78   

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

1961  On this day in history st Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto   

1961  On August - 02 beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club   

1961  Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64 on this day in history.   

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

1963  On this day in history oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 61   

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 August - 02.   

1964  On this day in history 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 August - 02.   

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

1966  On August - 02 radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting   

1967  US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5 on August - 02.   

1967  Claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77 on August - 02.   

1969  Clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96 on August - 02.   

1971  On this day in history 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 August - 02.   

1973  On August - 02 jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57   

1976  On this day in history fritz Lang, director (Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85   

1978  Carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79 on August - 02.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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  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 August - 02 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 August - 02.   

1703  On August - 02 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 this day in history.   

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

0924  On August - 02 death of Ælfweard of Wessex   

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

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.