Page 6: Historical Events In August - 02

1953  Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash   

1954  Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia   

1954  Rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42   

1955  USSR performs nuclear test   

1955  Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies   

1956  Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109.   

1958  Jordan and Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months.   

1958  Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80.   

1959  41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC.   

1959  Prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78   

1961  Beatles inaugural gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club   

1961  St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto.   

1961  Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club.   

1961  Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64.   

1962  NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32600 m.   

1963  Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 61.   

1964  North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin and so it starts   

1964  Race riot in Jersey City NJ.   

1964  US destroyer attacked by Vietnamese torpedo boats in Gulf of Tonkin.   

1964  Jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee and Molly), dies at 69.   

1965  Morley Safer's sends inaugural Vietnam report indicating we are losing.   

1965  Milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49   

1966  Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting   

1967  US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5.   

1967  Claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77   

1969  Clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96.   

1971  Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77   

1972  Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London.   

1972  Brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29.   

1973  Jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57.   

1976  Fritz Lang, director (Cloak and Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85   

1978  Carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79.   

1979  Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway   

1979  Thurmon Munson, NY Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32   

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1455  Johan cicero: Elect of brandenburg (1486-99)   

1533  Theodor zwinger: Swiss scholar   

1627  Samuel dircksz van hoogstraten: Dutch painter   

1632  Kaspar von stieler: German poet (teutsche wolredner)   

1672  Johann jakob scheuchzer: Swiss scholar   

1674  Philip ii: Duke of orléans, regent of france   

1696  Mahmud i: Sultan of ottoman (turkey) (1730-54)/fought austria & russia   

1703  Lorenzo ricci: Italian jesuit leader   

0257  Death of Stefanus i: Bishop of rome (254-57)/heretic fighter,   

0640  Death of Severinus: Italian pope (640),   

0686  Death of John v: 1st greeks-syrian pope (685-86),   

0924  Ã†lfweard of wessex: Ælfweard of wessex   

1002  Death of Abu amir mohammed ibn abd allah ibn mohammed ibn abi amir:   

1075  Death of John viii xiphilinus: Theologian/patriarch of constantinople,   

1100  William ii: [rufus], king of england, shot in new forest at 44   

1222  Death of Count raymond vi of toulouse: Count raymond vi of toulouse (b. 1156)