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Historical Events In August - 02

Friday, 29 March 2024

1980  On this day in history uS swimmers set 3 world records at National championships  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1980  On this day in history verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1982  On August - 02 cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1983  STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad on August - 02.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1983  US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1985  On August - 02 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1985  NASA launches space vehicle S-209 on August - 02.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1985  Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1986  On this day in history jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1986  On August - 02 roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1987  Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3") on August - 02.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1987  On August - 02 michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1987  On August - 02 myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1988  Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo on August - 02.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1988  System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC) on August - 02.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1988  Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1989  On this day in history nASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1990  On this day in history iraq invades & occupies Kuwait  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1990  On this day in history iraq invades Kuwait  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1990  Iraq Invades Kuwait - leading to Operation Desert Storm on August - 02.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1991  Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1991  On this day in history hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1991  On this day in history gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1992  Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies on August - 02.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2012  23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan on August - 02.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2013  40 people are killed after an ammunition depot explodes in Homs, Syria on August - 02.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2017  On this day in history first successful gene editing in human embryos to repair disease-causing mutation reported by scientists in "Nature"  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2017  US President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2017  On August - 02 great Britain's Prince Philip aged 96 makes his final solo public appearance before retiring from public engagements  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2017  On this day in history new larger crypto-currency Bitcoin Cash created  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2018  On August - 02 apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2018  Fields Medal for mathematics awarded to Caucher Birkar (his stolen minutes later), Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh on August - 02.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2018  On this day in history pope Frances declares the death penalty unacceptable in all cases, reversing church teachings and adding to Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous Birthdays In August - 02

Famous People Born On This Day In History

1455  Johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99) was born on August - 02.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1533  Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1627  Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1632  Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner) was born on August - 02.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1672  On this day in history birth of johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1674  Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1696  Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1703  On this day in history birth of lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In August - 02

Famous People Died On This Day In History

0257  On August - 02 stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

0640  On this day in history severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

0686  On August - 02 john V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

0924  On this day in history death of Ælfweard of Wessex  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1002  Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1075  On this day in history john VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1100  On August - 02 death of william II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1222  Death of Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156) on August - 02.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard


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