Page 7: Historical Events In August - 02

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

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

1982  On August - 02 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 August - 02.   

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

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  Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts) on August - 02.   

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

1987  Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3") on August - 02.   

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

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

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 this day in history raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50   

1989  On August - 02 nASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24   

1990  Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait on August - 02.   

1990  Iraq invades Kuwait on August - 02.   

1990  Iraq Invades Kuwait - leading to Operation Desert Storm on August - 02.   

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

2012  23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history 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 August - 02.   

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

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   

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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 August - 02.   

1627  On August - 02 birth of samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter   

1632  On this day in history birth of kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner)   

1672  On August - 02 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 this day in history.   

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

0924  On August - 02 death of Ælfweard of Wessex   

1002  Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64 on August - 02.   

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 August - 02.   

1222  On August - 02 death of count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)