Page 7: Historical Events In August - 02

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

1980  On August - 02 verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies   

1982  On August - 02 cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93   

1983  On this day in history sTS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad   

1983  On August - 02 uS District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination   

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

1985  NASA launches space vehicle S-209 on this day in history.   

1985  Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79 on August - 02.   

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

1986  Roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies on this day in history.   

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  Myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1988  On this day in history raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo   

1988  System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC) on this day in history.   

1988  On this day in history 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 August - 02.   

1990  On August - 02 iraq invades & occupies Kuwait   

1990  On August - 02 iraq invades Kuwait   

1990  On this day in history iraq Invades Kuwait - leading to Operation Desert Storm   

1991  Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges on this day in history.   

1991  Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA on this day in history.   

1991  Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen on this day in history.   

1992  Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies on this day in history.   

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

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

2013  40 people are killed after an ammunition depot explodes in Homs, Syria on August - 02.   

2017  First successful gene editing in human embryos to repair disease-causing mutation reported by scientists in "Nature" on August - 02.   

2017  On this day in history uS President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them   

2017  On this day in history 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 August - 02.   

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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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1696  On this day in history 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  Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies on August - 02.   

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

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

0924  On this day in history death of Ælfweard of Wessex   

1002  On August - 02 abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64   

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

1100  On this day in history death of william II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44   

1222  On this day in history death of count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)