Page 3: Historical Events In August - 02

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

1865  On August - 02 lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"   

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

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

1868  On August - 02 constantine I, king of Greece   

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

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

1872  On August - 02 judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59   

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

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

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

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

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  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 August - 02.   

1877  On August - 02 sF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes   

1878  Aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales) on August - 02.   

1881  Ethel Mary Dell, English author (Storm Drift) on August - 02.   

1881  Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35 on August - 02.   

1882  On this day in history johannes Tralow, writer   

1884  Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent on this day in history.   

1886  On this day in history 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  On August - 02 pauline Hall, composer   

1891  Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, London, composer (Olympians) on August - 02.   

1892  On this day in history charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator   

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

1894  Death duties 1st introduced in Britain on this day in history.   

1895  Matthew Henderson, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in NZ's 1st Test) on August - 02.   

1899  Charles Bennett, screenwriter on August - 02.   

1900  On this day in history helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause)   

1903  Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey on this day in history.   

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

1905  On August - 02 karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer   

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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  Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter was born on this day in history.   

1632  On August - 02 birth of kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner)   

1672  On August - 02 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 this day in history birth of mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia   

1703  On August - 02 birth of lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)   

0257  Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies on this day in history.   

0640  Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies on August - 02.   

0686  On this day in history 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  On August - 02 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)