Page 6: Historical Events In August - 02

1953  Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash on August - 02.   

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

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

1955  USSR performs nuclear test on August - 02.   

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

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

1961  On this day in history 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  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 August - 02.   

1964  On this day in history race riot in Jersey City NJ   

1964  On this day in history 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  On this day in history 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  Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting on August - 02.   

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

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

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

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

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

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1455  On this day in history birth of johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99)   

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

1627  Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter was born on this day in history.   

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

1672  Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733) was born on August - 02.   

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

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  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  On this day in history 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 August - 02.   

1075  On August - 02 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)