Historical Events In August - 02

1953  On August - 02 betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash  

1954  Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia on August - 02.  

1954  Rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42 on August - 02.  

1955  USSR performs nuclear test on this day in history.  

1955  On August - 02 ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies  

1956  On this day in history albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109  

1958  On August - 02 jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months  

1958  Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80 on August - 02.  

1959  On this day in history 41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC  

1959  Prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78 on August - 02.  

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1961  Beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club on this day in history.  

1961  St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto on August - 02.  

1961  On August - 02 beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club  

1961  Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64 on August - 02.  

1962  NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m on August - 02.  

1963  Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 61 on this day in history.  

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

1964  On August - 02 race riot in Jersey City NJ  

1964  On August - 02 uS destroyer attacked by Vietnamese torpedo boats in Gulf of Tonkin  

1964  On August - 02 jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69  

1965  On August - 02 morley Safer's sends first Vietnam report indicating we are losing  

1965  On this day in history milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49  

1966  On this day in history radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting  

1967  On this day in history uS's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5  

1967  Claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77 on August - 02.  

1969  Clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96 on this day in history.  

1971  On this day in history ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77  

1972  On August - 02 gold hits record $70 an ounce in London  

1972  On this day in history brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29  

1973  On this day in history jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57  

1976  Fritz Lang, director (Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85 on this day in history.  

1978  Carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.  

1979  On this day in history gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway  

1979  Thurmon Munson, NY Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32 on August - 02.  

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1455  Johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99) was born on this day in history.  

1533  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1674  On this day in history birth of philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)  

1696  Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1100  Death of William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44 on August - 02.  

1222  Death of Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156) on this day in history.