Historical Events In August - 02

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

1980  On this day in history verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies   

1982  Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93 on August - 02.   

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

1985  On this day in history nASA launches space vehicle S-209   

1985  On August - 02 frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79   

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

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

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

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

1989  NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24 on August - 02.   

1990  Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait on August - 02.   

1990  On August - 02 iraq invades Kuwait   

1990  Iraq Invades Kuwait - leading to Operation Desert Storm on August - 02.   

1991  On August - 02 funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges   

1991  On August - 02 hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA   

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

2012  On this day in history 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  US President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them on this day in history.   

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

2018  On this day in history apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value   

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  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  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  Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723) was born on this day in history.   

1696  On this day in history 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  On this day in history severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies   

0686  John V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies on August - 02.   

0924  Death of Ælfweard of Wessex on this day in history.   

1002  On this day in history abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64   

1075  John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies on this day in history.   

1100  On August - 02 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.