Page 3: Historical Events In August - 02

1864  On this day in history 2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens   

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

1865  Irving Babbitt, US writer (Rousseau & Romanticism) on August - 02.   

1867  On August - 02 ernest C Dowson, British poet   

1868  Constantine I, king of Greece on August - 02.   

1869  On this day in history alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+   

1870  On August - 02 tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.   

1872  Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1873  The first trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones on this day in history.   

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

1873  On this day in history frank Mori, composer, dies at 53   

1875  On this day in history 1st roller skating rink opens (London)   

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

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

1877  SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes on this day in history.   

1878  Aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales) on this day in history.   

1881  Ethel Mary Dell, English author (Storm Drift) on this day in history.   

1881  On this day in history marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35   

1882  On August - 02 johannes Tralow, writer   

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  On August - 02 oscar Rasbach, composer   

1890  Pauline Hall, composer on August - 02.   

1891  Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, London, composer (Olympians) on this day in history.   

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

1892  On August - 02 jack Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros)   

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

1895  On August - 02 matthew Henderson, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in NZ's 1st Test)   

1899  On August - 02 charles Bennett, screenwriter   

1900  Helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause) on this day in history.   

1903  On August - 02 unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey   

1903  Martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies on August - 02.   

1905  On this day in history karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer   

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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 August - 02.   

1627  On this day in history birth of samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter   

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  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 August - 02 stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies   

0640  On August - 02 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  Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64 on August - 02.   

1075  On August - 02 john VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies   

1100  On August - 02 death of william II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44   

1222  On this day in history death of count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)