Page 6: Historical Events In August - 02

1953  Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1956  Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109 on this day in history.   

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 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 August - 02.   

1961  On this day in history giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64   

1962  On August - 02 nASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m   

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

1965  Morley Safer's sends first Vietnam report indicating we are losing on this day in history.   

1965  Milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49 on August - 02.   

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  On August - 02 ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77   

1972  Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London on this day in history.   

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

1973  On August - 02 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 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  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  On this day in history birth of samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter   

1632  Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner) was born on August - 02.   

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 August - 02 birth of mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia   

1703  Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775) was born on this day in history.   

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

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  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  John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies on this day in history.   

1100  Death of William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44 on this day in history.   

1222  On this day in history death of count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)