Page 7: Historical Events In August - 02

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

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 August - 02.   

1985  5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo on this day in history.   

1985  On this day in history nASA launches space vehicle S-209   

1985  Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79 on this day in history.   

1986  On this day in history jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)   

1986  Roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies on August - 02.   

1987  On August - 02 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 this day in history.   

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

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

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  On this day in history 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 August - 02.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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

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  On August - 02 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   

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1455  On August - 02 birth of johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99)   

1533  Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588) was born on August - 02.   

1627  Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter was born on August - 02.   

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 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 this day in history.   

0257  Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies on this day in history.   

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

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

0924  Death of Ælfweard of Wessex on August - 02.   

1002  Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1075  On this day in history john VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies   

1100  Death of William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44 on this day in history.   

1222  Death of Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156) on this day in history.