Page 4: Historical Events In August - 02

1906  Chicago White Sox begin record 19 game win streak on this day in history.   

1906  Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak on this day in history.   

1906  On August - 02 albert Goodwin, historian   

1907  On August - 02 walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington & loses 3-2 to Detroit   

1908  George Kimble, geographer on August - 02.   

1909  On this day in history army Air Corps formed as Army takes first delivery from Wright Brothers   

1909  On this day in history the first Lincoln head pennies minted   

1909  1st Lincoln head pennies minted on August - 02.   

1909  On August - 02 lord Benson, accountant   

1910  On this day in history gertruida EW "Truss" van Aalten, actress (Girl in Blue Hat)   

1911  On this day in history haiti's dictator Simon flees on US warship near Jamaica   

1912  On August - 02 18th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC of Buffalo NY   

1912  On this day in history ann Dvorak, [McKim], NYC, actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface)   

1913  Lord Benson, accountant on this day in history.   

1914  On this day in history sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place   

1914  Belgian govt receives German ultimatum on August - 02.   

1914  On August - 02 felix Leclerc, composer   

1914  Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer, dies at 36 on this day in history.   

1915  Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter on this day in history.   

1916  World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto on this day in history.   

1916  Beatrice Straight, Old Westbury NY, actress (Poltergeist, Nun's Story) on August - 02.   

1916  On this day in history hamish MacCunn, composer, dies at 48   

1918  On this day in history japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.   

1919  John Pinkerton, compuer scientist on August - 02.   

1920  On this day in history marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in NYC   

1920  On this day in history louis Pauwels, writer/editor   

1921  On August - 02 enrico Carus opera singer tenor, died   

1921  Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox on this day in history.   

1921  Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, dies at 48 on August - 02.   

1921  On August - 02 enrico Carus opera singer: tenor, died   

1922  On this day in history china, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die   

1922  Carroll O'Connor, NYC, actor (All in the Family, Heat of the Night) on this day in history.   

1922  On August - 02 alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies   

1923  Brian Neill, Lord Justice of Appeal 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  Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588) was born on August - 02.   

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  Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733) was born on this day in history.   

1674  On August - 02 birth of philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)   

1696  On August - 02 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 August - 02.   

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

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  On August - 02 abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64   

1075  John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies on August - 02.   

1100  On this day in history 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)