Page 7: Historical Events In August - 02

1980  On this day in history uS swimmers set 3 world records at National championships   

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

1982  Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93 on this day in history.   

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

1983  On this day in history 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  On this day in history frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79   

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

1986  On August - 02 roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies   

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

1987  Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) on August - 02.   

1987  Myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1988  Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo on this day in history.   

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 August - 02.   

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  Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait on this day in history.   

1990  Iraq invades Kuwait on August - 02.   

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

1991  Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges on August - 02.   

1991  Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA on August - 02.   

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

1992  Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies on August - 02.   

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 this day in history 23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan   

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

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

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

2017  Great Britain's Prince Philip aged 96 makes his final solo public appearance before retiring from public engagements on this day in history.   

2017  On this day in history new larger crypto-currency Bitcoin Cash created   

2018  On August - 02 apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value   

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

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Next Page »

1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31

1455  Johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99) was born on this day in history.   

1533  On August - 02 birth of theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)   

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 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 August - 02.   

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  On this day in history stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies   

0640  On this day in history severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies   

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

0924  Death of Ælfweard of Wessex on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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