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 this day in history.   

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

1867  On August - 02 ernest C Dowson, British poet   

1868  On August - 02 constantine I, king of Greece   

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

1870  On this day in history 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 August - 02.   

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

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

1873  Frank Mori, composer, dies at 53 on August - 02.   

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

1876  On August - 02 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  On August - 02 ethel Mary Dell, English author (Storm Drift)   

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

1882  Johannes Tralow, writer on this day in history.   

1884  Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent on August - 02.   

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

1887  On this day in history rowell Hodge patents barbed wire   

1888  Oscar Rasbach, composer on this day in history.   

1890  On August - 02 pauline Hall, composer   

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

1892  On August - 02 charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator   

1892  Jack Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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 August - 02.   

1903  Martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies on this day in history.   

1905  Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer on this day in history.   

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1455  On this day in history birth of johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99)   

1533  On August - 02 birth of theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)   

1627  Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter was born on August - 02.   

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

1703  Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775) was born on August - 02.   

0257  Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies on August - 02.   

0640  On August - 02 severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies   

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

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

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

1075  On August - 02 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  On August - 02 death of count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)