Page 6: Historical Events In August - 02

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

1954  On August - 02 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  On this day in history ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies   

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

1958  Jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months on this day in history.   

1958  On August - 02 joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80   

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

1959  On August - 02 prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78   

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

1963  On this day in history 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 on August - 02.   

1964  Race riot in Jersey City NJ on this day in history.   

1964  US destroyer attacked by Vietnamese torpedo boats in Gulf of Tonkin on August - 02.   

1964  On August - 02 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  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  Clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96 on August - 02.   

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

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

1972  On August - 02 brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29   

1973  Jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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1455  On August - 02 birth of johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99)   

1533  Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588) was born on August - 02.   

1627  On August - 02 birth of samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter   

1632  On this day in history birth of kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner)   

1672  On August - 02 birth of johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)   

1674  Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723) was born on August - 02.   

1696  Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia was born on August - 02.   

1703  Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775) was born on August - 02.   

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

0640  On this day in history 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  Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64 on August - 02.   

1075  John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies on this day in history.   

1100  On August - 02 death of william II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44   

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