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 August - 02.   

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

1983  STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

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

1987  On this day in history myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79   

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

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  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   

1990  On this day in history iraq invades & occupies Kuwait   

1990  Iraq invades Kuwait on this day in history.   

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

1991  On this day in history funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges   

1991  On August - 02 hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA   

1991  On this day in history gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

2017  On August - 02 great Britain's Prince Philip aged 96 makes his final solo public appearance before retiring from public engagements   

2017  New larger crypto-currency Bitcoin Cash created on August - 02.   

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

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 August - 02.   

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

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

1674  On this day in history birth of philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)   

1696  On August - 02 birth of mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia   

1703  On August - 02 birth of lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)   

0257  Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies on August - 02.   

0640  Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies on this day in history.   

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

0924  Death of Ælfweard of Wessex on August - 02.   

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

1075  On this day in history 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 August - 02 death of count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)