Historical Events In August - 02

1980  On August - 02 uS swimmers set 3 world records at National championships  

1980  On this day in history verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies  

1982  On this day in history cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93  

1983  On August - 02 sTS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad  

1983  US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination on this day in history.  

1985  On August - 02 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo  

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

1985  Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79 on this day in history.  

1986  On this day in history jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)  

1986  Roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies on August - 02.  

1987  Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3") on this day in history.  

1987  Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) on this day in history.  

1987  On August - 02 myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79  

1988  Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo on August - 02.  

1988  On August - 02 system Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)  

1988  On August - 02 raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50  

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 August - 02 iraq invades & occupies Kuwait  

1990  On August - 02 iraq invades Kuwait  

1990  On August - 02 iraq Invades Kuwait - leading to Operation Desert Storm  

1991  On August - 02 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  Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies on August - 02.  

2005  On August - 02 air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after overshooting the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport; all aboard survive.  

2012  On this day in history 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 August - 02.  

2017  On August - 02 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 this day in history 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  Fields Medal for mathematics awarded to Caucher Birkar (his stolen minutes later), Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh on this day in history.  

2018  Pope Frances declares the death penalty unacceptable in all cases, reversing church teachings and adding to Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church 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  Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter was born on this day in history.  

1632  On August - 02 birth of kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner)  

1672  On this day in history birth of johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)  

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

0686  On this day in history john V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies  

0924  On this day in history death of Ælfweard of Wessex  

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

1075  On August - 02 john VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies  

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

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