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 this day in history.  

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

1955  On this day in history uSSR performs nuclear test  

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

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

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

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

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1961  Beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club on August - 02.  

1961  On August - 02 st Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto  

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  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  On August - 02 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 August - 02.  

1964  Jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69 on this day in history.  

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

1965  Milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49 on this day in history.  

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

1967  On August - 02 uS's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5  

1967  On August - 02 claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77  

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

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  Brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29 on August - 02.  

1973  On August - 02 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  On August - 02 carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79  

1979  On August - 02 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  Johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99) was born on this day in history.  

1533  Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588) was born on this day in history.  

1627  On August - 02 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 this day in history.  

1674  On August - 02 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  Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775) was born on this day in history.  

0257  On August - 02 stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies  

0640  Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies on this day in history.  

0686  On August - 02 john V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies  

0924  Death of Ælfweard of Wessex on August - 02.  

1002  Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64 on this day in history.  

1075  On this day in history 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.