Historical Events In August - 02

1953  On this day in history betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash   

1954  On this day in history tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia   

1954  On August - 02 rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42   

1955  USSR performs nuclear test on August - 02.   

1955  Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies on August - 02.   

1956  On August - 02 albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109   

1958  On this day in history jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months   

1958  Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1959  41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC on August - 02.   

1959  Prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

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

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

1961  Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1963  On August - 02 oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 61   

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

1964  On August - 02 race riot in Jersey City NJ   

1964  US destroyer attacked by Vietnamese torpedo boats in Gulf of Tonkin on this day in history.   

1964  On this day in history jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69   

1965  On this day in history morley Safer's sends first Vietnam report indicating we are losing   

1965  On August - 02 milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49   

1966  On August - 02 radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting   

1967  US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5 on this day in history.   

1967  On this day in history claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77   

1969  On August - 02 clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96   

1971  Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1972  On this day in history gold hits record $70 an ounce in London   

1972  Brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29 on this day in history.   

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

1976  On this day in history fritz Lang, director (Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85   

1978  Carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79 on August - 02.   

1979  Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway on this day in history.   

1979  On August - 02 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) 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 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  Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723) was born on this day in history.   

1696  On this day in history birth of mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia   

1703  On this day in history birth of lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)   

0257  On this day in history stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies   

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

0686  John V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies on August - 02.   

0924  On August - 02 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 this day in history john VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies   

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)