This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
08/02/1455 Johan Cicero, monarch of Brandenburg (1486-99) 
08/02/1627 Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, painter 
08/02/1696 Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russ

08/02/1723 Nicolas de Pigage, French classical architect 
08/02/1746 Joan Lucaz, Dutch journalist/patriot 
08/02/1754 Pierre Charles L'Enfant, France, architect laid out Wash DC 
08/02/1775 Jose Angel Lamas, composer 
08/02/1802 Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman, 1st archbishop of Westminster 
08/02/1818 (Willem) Alexander FCNM, prince of the Netherlands/general-major 
08/02/1826 William Denison Whipple, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 190

08/02/1832 Henry Steel Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society) 
08/02/1835 Elisha Grey, inventor (Telephone) 
08/02/1854 Francis Marion Crawford, British author 
08/02/1858 Catherina van Rennes, composer 
08/02/1858 William Watson, British poet (Prince's Quest, Father of Forest) 
08/02/1865 Irving Babbitt, US writer (Rousseau & Romanticism) 
08/02/1867 Ernest C Dowson, British poet 
08/02/1868 Constantine I, king of Greece 
08/02/1878 Aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales) 
08/02/1878 Princess Ingeborg, of Sweden 
08/02/1881 Stanislaw Kazuro, composer 
08/02/1882 Nanny I Larsen-Todsen, Swedish opera singer 
08/02/1882 Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Virgin Doll) 
08/02/1884 R¢mulo Gallegos, Venezuela, novelist (Do¤a B rbara)/pres (1947-48) 
08/02/1888 Oscar Rasbach, composer 
08/02/1890 Pauline Hall, composer 
08/02/1891 Arthur Bliss (Edward Drummond), London, composer (Olympians) 
08/02/1891 Arthur Drummond Bliss, composer 
08/02/1891 Mihail Jora, composer 
08/02/1892 Jack Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros) 
08/02/1892 John Kieran, NYC, columnist/author (Natural History of NYC) 
08/02/1900 Helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause) 
08/02/1900 Marinus Adam, conductor/composer 
08/02/1905 Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer 
08/02/1905 Myrna Loy, Helena Mont, actress (Jazz Singer, Thin Man, Vanity Fair)

08/02/1908 George Kimble, geographer 
08/02/1909 Lord Benson, accountant 
08/02/1910 Gertruida EW 'Truss' van Aalten, actress (Girl in Blue Hat) 
08/02/1910 Lou Zara, NYC, writer (Stump the Authors) 
08/02/1914 Felix Leclerc, composer 
08/02/1914 Gary Merrill, Hartford Conn, actor (Young Dr Kildare, All About Eve)

08/02/1916 Beatrice Straight, Old Westbury NY, actress (Poltergeist, Nun's Stor

08/02/1916 Reginald Murley, surgeon 
08/02/1922 Carroll O'Connor, NYC, actor (All in the Family, Heat of the Night) 
08/02/1922 Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary (TUC) 
08/02/1922 Paul Laxalt, (Sen-R-NV, 1974-  ) 
08/02/1923 Brian Neill, Lord Justice of Appeal 
08/02/1924 James Baldwin, NY, author (Go Tell it on Mountain, Another Country) 
08/02/1925 Alan Wicker, British broadcaster 
08/02/1926 Betsy Bloomingdale, dept store mogul 
08/02/1927 Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician 
08/02/1929 John Gale, theatrical producer 
08/02/1929 John Hannam, MP 
08/02/1929 Lord Waddington, Governor of Bermuda 
08/02/1930 Ron de Lugo, (Rep-D-Virgin Islands, 1973-79, 81-  ) 
08/02/1931 Henryck Schiller, composer 
08/02/1931 Philippa Duke Schuyler, composer 
08/02/1932 Lamar Hunt, NFL owner (KC Chiefs) 
08/02/1932 Marvin David Levy, composer 
08/02/1932 Peter O'Toole, Ireland, actor (Lord Jim, Beckett, Lawrence of Arabia

08/02/1933 Alan Tuffin, trade union leader 
08/02/1934 Albert W Hall, actor (Apocalypse Now) 
08/02/1934 Carl Cecil Cain, Freeport Ill, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1956)

08/02/1934 Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut (Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, 31) 
08/02/1935 Brian Wolfson, CEO (Wembley Pic) 
08/02/1935 John MacIvor Perkins, composer 
08/02/1936 Anthony Edward Payne, composer 
08/02/1936 Christopher Hogg, CEO (Courtaulds & Reuters) 
08/02/1937 Ronald Brierley, company chairman 
08/02/1937 William Cannon, football player (Heisman-1959) 
08/02/1938 Brunhilde Hendrix, German FR, relay runner (Olympic-silver-1960) 
08/02/1938 Yvonne Regg, Switzerland, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1960) 
08/02/1939 Edward Pattern, Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips) 
08/02/1940 Doris Kenner, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy) 
08/02/1941 Homer Banks, US singer/songwriter (Be What You Are) 
08/02/1942 Garth Hudson, rock keyboardist (The Band) 
08/02/1942 Leo Beenhakker, soccer trainer 
08/02/1943 Garth Hudson, Canada pop musician (The Band-Life is a Carnival) 
08/02/1943 Jeltje van Newenhoven, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA) 
08/02/1943 Rose Tremain, British novelist/playwright 
08/02/1944 Joanna Cassidy, [Caskey], Haddonfield NJ, actress (240 Robert) 
08/02/1945 John Bowis, MP 
08/02/1948 Robert P Holdstock, UK, sci-fi author (Ghost Dance, Labyrinth) 
08/02/1949 'Fat' Larry James, US drummer (Fat Larry's Band) 
08/02/1949 Bertalan Farkas, Bulgaria, cosmonaut (Soyuz 36/35) 
08/02/1950 Kathryn Harrold, Tarzewell Va, actress (MacGruder & Loud) 
08/02/1951 Andrew Gold, Burbank, rocker (Lonely Boy) 
08/02/1952 Angel Herrera, Cuba, FW/LW boxer (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) 
08/02/1952 Paul David Crews, SC, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List) 
08/02/1953 Anne Leuchars, British TV journalist 
08/02/1954 Sammy Mcilroy, British soccer star 
08/02/1955 Jimmy Lowe, Nashville Tenn, country singer (Pirates of Ms-Fred Jake)

08/02/1955 Roberta Wallach, NYC, actress (Civil Wars) 
08/02/1956 Isabel Pantoja, Spain, spanish singer (Genio y Figura) 
08/02/1959 Britt Helfer, Utah, actress (Lily-Loving, Alley Cat) 
08/02/1960 Apollonia, [Patricia Kotero], Santa Monica Ca, actress (Purple Rain)

08/02/1960 Linda Fratianne, US, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980) 
08/02/1961 Pete de Freitas, rock drummer (Echo & the Bunnyman) 
08/02/1963 Cynthia Stevenson, Oakland Calif, actress (Player, Watch it, Bob) 
08/02/1965 Takayuki Iizuka, wrestler (NJPW) 
08/02/1966 Joseph Wanag, Wilson Ct, US judoka (Olympic-92) 
08/02/1967 Aaron Krickstein, Ann Arbor, Mich, tennis player (Tel Aviv 1983) 
08/02/1967 Derek Wells, LA Calif, actor (Fitzpatricks) 
08/02/1973 Kia Goodwin, Livingston NJ, actress (Tiffany Holloway-227) 
08/02/1977 Edward Furlong, Pasedina Calif, actor (John Connor-Terminator 2) 
08/02/1991 Gabriel Anthony Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen 
08/02/1993 Cassidy Gifford, daughter of Frank & Kathy Lee 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
08/02/ 257 Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies 
08/02/ 640 Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies 
08/02/ 686 John V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies 
08/02/1075 John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies 
08/02/1100 William II [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest 
08/02/1332 Christoffel II, king of Denmark (Handf‘stning), dies at 55 
08/02/1512 Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher, dies at 48 
08/02/1589 Henry III, king of Poland/France (1573-89), dies 
08/02/1600 Arent van Village, governor of East-Zealand, dies at about 70 
08/02/1649 Elisabeth Bas, wife of Adm Swartenhondt, dies at about 78 
08/02/1655 Alfonso de la Cueva, Spanish marquis of Bedmar/diplomat, dies at 83 
08/02/1788 Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), dies at 61 
08/02/1792 Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer, dies at 60 
08/02/1799 Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, balloonist, dies 
08/02/1811 William Williams, US merchant/signer (Decl of Indep), dies at 80 
08/02/1827 James Hewitt, composer, dies at 57 
08/02/1849 Mehemet Ali, British viceroy to Egypt, dies 
08/02/1858 A Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen/regent dies at 76 
08/02/1869 Alexandrine Tinne, explorer, murdered 
08/02/1872 Judocus Smits, Catholic founder (The Time), dies at 59 
08/02/1873 Frank Mori, composer, dies at 53 
08/02/1876 Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while 
08/02/1876 playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's 
08/02/1881 Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author, dies 
08/02/1892 douard Joseph Stevens, Belgian graphic artist, dies at 72 
08/02/1903 Martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies 
08/02/1912 Albert U B††th, Swedish poet (Dikter), dies at 59 
08/02/1914 Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer, dies at 36 
08/02/1916 Hamish MacCunn, composer, dies at 48 
08/02/1921 Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, dies at 48 
08/02/1922 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies 
08/02/1922 [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, author/feminist, dies 
08/02/1923 Warren Harding, 29th Pres (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel SF at 57 
08/02/1932 Gheorghe Cucu, composer, dies at 50 
08/02/1934 Paul Von Hindenburg, dies at 86, Hitler takes over German presidency

08/02/1936 Louis Bi‚riot, aviator, dies 
08/02/1938 Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer, dies at 76 
08/02/1941 Jos‚ Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (La Feria), dies at 70 
08/02/1942 Friedrich Aereboe, Dutch landlord, dies at 77 
08/02/1945 Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer, dies at 85 
08/02/1945 Pietro Mascagni, composer, dies at 81 
08/02/1954 Rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42 
08/02/1955 Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern, dies 
08/02/1955 Wallace Stevens, US poet/writer (Owl's Clover), dies at 75 
08/02/1956 Albert Woolson, burden veteran US Union army, dies at 109 
08/02/1958 Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies 
08/02/1959 Prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78 
08/02/1961 Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies 
08/02/1963 Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 83 
08/02/1964 Jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69 
08/02/1964 Jose Maria Castro, composer, dies at 71 
08/02/1965 Milton Babbitt, US composer, dies 
08/02/1967 Claude A Barnett, founded Associated Negro Press, dies at 78 
08/02/1969 Clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96 
08/02/1971 Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77 
08/02/1972 Brian Cole, rocker with the Association, dies of heroin OD at 28 
08/02/1972 Paul Goodman, US social critic/writer, dies at 60 
08/02/1972 Rudolf Ganz, composer, dies at 95 
08/02/1976 Fritz Lang, director (Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85 
08/02/1978 Carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79 
08/02/1978 Satomi Myodo, Zen nun/attendant of Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, dies at 82

08/02/1979 Thurmon Munson, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32 
08/02/1982 Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93 
08/02/1982 Rudolf Maros, composer, dies at 65 
08/02/1985 Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies at 79 of pneumonia 
08/02/1987 Myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79 
08/02/1988 Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50

08/02/1988 Roger Vuataz, composer, dies at 90 
08/02/1991 Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen 
08/02/1992 Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies 
08/02/1992 Julio C Fern ndez, Cuban/US journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies 
08/02/1992 Michel Berges, French composer, dies at 44 of a heart attack 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
08/02/ 257 St Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
08/02/ 640 Severinus ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
08/02/ 686 John V ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
08/02/1057 Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium, Pope Stephen IX [X]

08/02/1375 1st roller skating rink opens (London) 
08/02/1492 Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella 
08/02/1552 Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion 
08/02/1578 Battle of R˜menam 
08/02/1581 Leidse University names Snellius math professor 
08/02/1704 Duke of Marlborough beats French & Bavarians at Blenheim 
08/02/1718 Austrian joins Triple Alliance 
08/02/1776 Formal signing of Declaration of Independence 
08/02/1786 Utrechtse Vroedschap flees 
08/02/1798 British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile 
08/02/1802 Napoleon declared 'Counsel for Life' 
08/02/1819 1st parachute jump in US 
08/02/1831 Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium 
08/02/1832 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac & Fox indians, end Black Hawk War 
08/02/1832 Black Hawk defeated (IA) 
08/02/1832 Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisc 
08/02/1858 1st street mailboxes-Boston, Mass 
08/02/1858 Govt of India transferred from East India Company to Crown 
08/02/1861 Skirmish at Dug Springs, MI 
08/02/1864 2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens 
08/02/1865 Lewis Carroll publishes 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' 
08/02/1865 Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps & is lost 
08/02/1873 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones 
08/02/1877 SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes 
08/02/1884 Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent 
08/02/1894 Death duties 1st introduced in Britain 
08/02/1894 Women suffrage approved 
08/02/1903 Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey 
08/02/1904 M Wolf discovers asteroid #539 Pamina 
08/02/1906 Chicago White Sox begin record 19 game win streak 
08/02/1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted 
08/02/1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brother

08/02/1911 Ha‹ti's dictator Simon flees on US warship near Jamaica 
08/02/1912 John J McDermott wins US Open golf tournament 
08/02/1914 Belgian govt receives German ultimatum 
08/02/1914 German press report that French didn't bomb Nrenberg 
08/02/1914 German troops overthrows Luxembourg 
08/02/1914 Great Britain mobilizes 
08/02/1914 Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia 
08/02/1914 Sherlock Holmes Adventure 'His Last Bow' takes place 
08/02/1920 Marcus Garvey presents his 'Back To Africa' program in NYC 
08/02/1922 China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die 
08/02/1926 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1064 Aethusa 
08/02/1928 Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 
08/02/1929 Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR 
08/02/1931 Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status 
08/02/1932 Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chic Cubs 
08/02/1934 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it 
08/02/1934 Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany 
08/02/1934 William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour

08/02/1938 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals) 
08/02/1939 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers 
08/02/1940 Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death 
08/02/1940 KL-House of saxon & commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia 
08/02/1941 Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia 
08/02/1942 250 Dutch Catholic & Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp 
08/02/1943 Lt John F Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands 
08/02/1943 Riot at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed) 
08/02/1944 Amsterdam soccer team 'The Volewijckers' plays in orange shirts 
08/02/1944 Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker 
08/02/1944 Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany 
08/02/1945 Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman & Churchill 
08/02/1949 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1682 Karel, #1820 Lohmann, 
08/02/1949 #2465, #2591, #3020 & #3183 
08/02/1953 KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting 
08/02/1954 Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia 
08/02/1958 Jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months 
08/02/1959 Bob Rosburg wins PGA golf tournament 
08/02/1959 Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples 
08/02/1961 Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club 
08/02/1961 Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo 
08/02/1961 St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto 
08/02/1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m 
08/02/1964 Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees 
08/02/1964 North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin 
08/02/1964 Race riot in Jersey City NJ 
08/02/1965 Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing 
08/02/1966 Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting 
08/02/1967 New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to LA Rams 16-77 
08/02/1967 US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5 
08/02/1969 Pres Nixon visits Romania 
08/02/1970 Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in Calif 
08/02/1972 Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London 
08/02/1973 George Brett gets his 1st hit 
08/02/1975 104øF (40øC) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record) 
08/02/1975 107øF (42øC) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record) 
08/02/1975 Billy Martin named manager of NY Yankees (1st time) 
08/02/1979 Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway 
08/02/1980 Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy, 86 killed 
08/02/1980 US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships 
08/02/1982 Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network 
08/02/1983 STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad 
08/02/1983 US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discriminatio

08/02/1985 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo 
08/02/1985 Delta L-1011 crashes at Dallas/Ft Worth, 133 die 
08/02/1985 NASA launches space vehicle S-209 
08/02/1986 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts) 
08/02/1986 TODAY/PC born today 
08/02/1987 Cin Red Eric Davis becomes 7th & earliest 30 HR 30 steal man 
08/02/1987 Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3') 
08/02/1987 Kevin Seitzer (KC Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game 
08/02/1987 Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) 
08/02/1988 Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo 
08/02/1988 System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC) 
08/02/1990 Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia 
08/02/1991 Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges 
08/02/1991 Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA 
08/02/1991 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched 
08/02/1993 NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes 
08/02/1993 Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed 
  
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