Historical Events In August - 02

1980  US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships on August - 02.  

1980  Verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies on this day in history.  

1982  Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93 on August - 02.  

1983  STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad on this day in history.  

1983  On this day in history uS District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination  

1985  On this day in history 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo  

1985  On this day in history nASA launches space vehicle S-209  

1985  On August - 02 frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79  

1986  On August - 02 jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)  

1986  On this day in history roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies  

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1987  On August - 02 don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")  

1987  On this day in history michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)  

1987  On this day in history myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79  

1988  On August - 02 raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo  

1988  On this day in history system Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)  

1988  Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50 on this day in history.  

1989  NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24 on this day in history.  

1990  On this day in history iraq invades & occupies Kuwait  

1990  Iraq invades Kuwait on August - 02.  

1990  Iraq Invades Kuwait - leading to Operation Desert Storm on this day in history.  

1991  On this day in history funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges  

1991  On August - 02 hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA  

1991  On August - 02 gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen  

1992  On this day in history ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies  

2005  Air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after overshooting the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport; all aboard survive on this day in history.  

2012  On August - 02 23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan  

2013  40 people are killed after an ammunition depot explodes in Homs, Syria on this day in history.  

2017  On this day in history first successful gene editing in human embryos to repair disease-causing mutation reported by scientists in "Nature"  

2017  US President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them on August - 02.  

2017  On August - 02 great Britain's Prince Philip aged 96 makes his final solo public appearance before retiring from public engagements  

2017  On August - 02 new larger crypto-currency Bitcoin Cash created  

2018  Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value on this day in history.  

2018  On this day in history fields Medal for mathematics awarded to Caucher Birkar (his stolen minutes later), Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh  

2018  Pope Frances declares the death penalty unacceptable in all cases, reversing church teachings and adding to Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church on August - 02.  

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

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

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  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 August - 02.  

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

0640  Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies on August - 02.  

0686  John V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies on this day in history.  

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  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 August - 02.  

1222  Death of Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156) on August - 02.