Page 3: Historical Events In August - 02

1864  On August - 02 2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens   

1865  Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" on August - 02.   

1865  On August - 02 irving Babbitt, US writer (Rousseau & Romanticism)   

1867  Ernest C Dowson, British poet on August - 02.   

1868  Constantine I, king of Greece on this day in history.   

1869  Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+ on this day in history.   

1870  Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London on this day in history.   

1872  Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59 on August - 02.   

1873  On this day in history the first trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones   

1873  1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones on August - 02.   

1873  Frank Mori, composer, dies at 53 on this day in history.   

1875  1st roller skating rink opens (London) on August - 02.   

1876  On this day in history wild Bill Hickok draws the Dead Man's Hand - a pair of aces and a pair of eights, when he was shot   

1876  On this day in history wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's   

1877  SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes on August - 02.   

1878  On August - 02 aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales)   

1881  On August - 02 ethel Mary Dell, English author (Storm Drift)   

1881  Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35 on this day in history.   

1882  Johannes Tralow, writer on this day in history.   

1884  On this day in history dutch Queen Emma appointed regent   

1886  On August - 02 john Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian Aviator ( d. 1961)   

1887  Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire on August - 02.   

1888  Oscar Rasbach, composer on this day in history.   

1890  On August - 02 pauline Hall, composer   

1891  On this day in history arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, London, composer (Olympians)   

1892  Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator on this day in history.   

1892  On this day in history jack Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros)   

1894  Death duties 1st introduced in Britain on August - 02.   

1895  Matthew Henderson, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in NZ's 1st Test) on this day in history.   

1899  Charles Bennett, screenwriter on August - 02.   

1900  On August - 02 helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause)   

1903  On August - 02 unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey   

1903  On August - 02 martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies   

1905  Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer on August - 02.   

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1455  On this day in history 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 August - 02.   

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

1672  On August - 02 birth of johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)   

1674  Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723) was born on this day in history.   

1696  On August - 02 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  Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies on August - 02.   

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  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.