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Today in History ~ August 2
Events0257 - St Stephen I ends his reign as Pope
1492 - Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
1552 - Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion
1610 - Henry Hudson explores bay later named after him the Hudson Bay
1704 - Duke of Marlborough beats French & Bavarians at Blenheim
1769 - Los Angeles received its name.
1776 - Formal signing of Declaration of Independence; members of the Continental Congress began attaching their signatures to the Declaration of Independence. Well, most of them. Five more apparently signed in the coming months, and one didn't sign until 1777.
1782 - George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction
1787 - Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc
1791 - Samuel Briggs & his son patent nail-making machine
1798 - British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile
1802 - Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life"
1832 - 1 300 Illinois militia defeat Sac & Fox indians, ends the Black Hawk War
1858 - 1st street mailboxes - Boston Mass
1865 - Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1865 - Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps & is lost
1875 - World 1st roller skating rink opens in London
1876 - Wild Bill Draws the Dead Man's Hand: Famed frontier lawman James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot dead from behind as he played cards in a saloon in Deadwood Dakota. [H]
1877 - San Francisco Public Library opens with 5000 volumes.
1887 - Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
1892 - Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator
1903 - The Ilinden (or St. Elijah's Day) Uprising occurred. Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
1909 - 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
1909 - Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
1914 - German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg
1914 - German troops overthrow Luxembourg
1914 - Great Britain mobilizes
1914 - Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia
1920 - Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in NYC
1921 - A jury in Chicago acquitted several former members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team and two others of conspiring to defraud the public in the notorious "Black Sox" scandal.
1922 - China hit by a typhoon; about 60 000 die
1931 - Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status
1934 - 1st airplane train plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
1934 - Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg; In less than a decade the Nazis had risen from a splinter party to a dominating Germany and then terrorizing the world [H]
1939 - Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program.
1940 - Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death
1941 - German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman
1941 - Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
1943 - RAF bombs Hamburg
1943 - Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed)
1944 - Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker
1945 - President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee concluded the Potsdam conference.
1964 - Race riot in Jersey City NJ
1964 - The Pentagon reported the first of two attacks on U.S. destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. (Enabling Lyndon Johnson to escalate the Vietnam War)
1965 - Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
1969 - Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minn 10th reunion
1974 - John Dean, counsel to President Nixon, was sentenced to one-to-four years in prison for his part in the Watergate cover-up.
1975 - Billy Martin named manager of NY Yankees (1st time)
1980 - Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station 86 killed
1983 - US District Court begins trying Yonkers accused of racial discrimination
1985 - 137 people were killed when a Delta Air Lines jetliner crashed while attempting to land at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
1987 - The 50 year-old Walt Disney movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was re-released
1989 - NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2 1989 N3 & 1989 N24
1990 - Iraq invaded Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich emirate, after weeks of tension over disputed land and oil production quotas. Emir flees to Saudi Arabia (The Iraqis were later driven out in Operation Desert Storm.) [H]
1991 - President George H.W. Bush told a news conference only poor health would prevent his running for re-election.
1991 - Secretary of State James A. Baker III met in Jerusalem with a group of Palestinians, but failed to line up their immediate support for a Middle East peace conference.
1992 - The campaign of President George H.W. Bush, accused by Bill Clinton of mudslinging, responded with a vitriolic press release that referred to "sniveling hypocritical Democrats" (Bush later disavowed the release).
1992 - At the Barcelona Summer Olympics, American Jackie Joyner-Kersee repeated as heptathlon champion.
1994 - Congressional hearings begin on White Water
1994 - Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China 120+ killed
1994 - Rwanda's new coalition government said it would prosecute those responsible for the massacres in recent months.
1996 - Wall Street investors, worried about possible interest rate increases, roared their approval after the government reported that unemployment was creeping higher, consumer spending had slipped and manufacturing may have stalled.
1999 - In a magazine interview, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said her husband had lied at first about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky to protect her, his wife.
2000 - Former President Ford was hospitalized after suffering one, possibly two, small strokes.
2000 - President Clinton postponed the scheduled execution of Juan Raul Garza, a Texas drug kingpin and murderer (Garza was executed June 19, 2001).
2000 - Republicans awarded Texas Gov. George W. Bush their 2000 presidential nomination at the party's convention in Philadelphia and ratified Dick Cheney as his running mate.
2001 - Muslim extremists seized 36 Filipinos on the southern island of Basilan and beheaded at least four.
Birthdays Today
1455 - Johan Cicero elector of Brandenburg (1486-99)
1696 - Mahmud I Ottoman, sultan fought Austrians & Russians
1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant (architect, engineer, Revolutionary War officer: designed the plan for city of Washington D.C.)
1834 - Frederic Auguste Bartholdi Colmar France sculptor (Statue of Liberty)
1835 - Elisha Grey inventor (Telephone)
1871 - John Sloan (artist: South Beach Bathers; co-founder of Ashcan Art)
1891 - Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss London composer (Olympians)
1892 - Jack Leonard Warner (movie mogul: one of Hollywood's famed Warner Brothers)
1894 - Westbrook Pegler (journalist)
1900 - Helen Morgan (singer actress: Frankie and Johnny Show Boat Applause)
1905 - Myrna Loy (Williams) (actress: Thin Man movies, Airport, Topaz, Midnight Lace)
1912 - Ann Dvorak (actress: A Life of Her Own, Abilene Town, Scarface)
1914 - Gary Merrill (actor: The Seekers, Twelve O'Clock High, All About Eve, The Great Impostor)
1918 - Beatrice Straight (Academy Award-winning actress: Network [1976]; Poltergeist, Bloodline, Endless Love)
1922 - Paul Laxalt (U.S. Senator)
1924 - Carroll O'Connor (Emmy Award-winning actor: All in the Family [1971-72, 1976-77, 1977-78, 1978-79], In the Heat of the Night [1988-89], Cleopatra, The Devil's Brigade, In Harm's Way, Kelly's Heroes, Marlowe)
1924 - James Baldwin NY author (Go Tell it on Mountain Another Country)
1924 - Joe Harnell (conductor/arranger: Fly Me To the Moon)
1925 - John Dexter (opera director)
1926 - Betsy Bloomingdale, Dept Store mogul
1932 - Lamar Hunt, owner of NFL Kansas City Chiefs
1933 - Peter O'Toole (actor: Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, A Lion in Winter, The Last Emperor; autobiography: Loitering with Intent)
1934 - Valery Bykovsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 5 Soyuz 22 31)
1935 - Hank Cochran (songwriter: A Little Bitty Tear, Funny Way of Laughing. Make the World Go Away, I Fall to Pieces)
1937 - Billy Cannon (football: Heisman Trophy winner: LSU [1959]; Oakland Raiders tight end: Super Bowl II)
1937 - David Balon (hockey)
1937 - Garth Hudson (musician: keyboard: group: The Band: Up on Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down)
1941 - Doris Kenner (singer: group: The Shirelles: Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Soldier Boy, I Met Him on a Sunday, Tonight's the Night, Dedicated to the One I Love, Mama Said)
1943 - Kathy Lennon (singer: group: The Lennon Sisters: The Lawrence Welk Show)
1943 - Tom Burgmeier (baseball)
1944 - Joanna Cassidy (actress: Blade Runner, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Package)
1946 - Bob Beamon (long jumper)
1949 - Bertalan Farkas, 1st Hungarian space traveler (Soyuz 36)
1950 - Lance Ito judge (OJ Simpson trial)
1951 - Andrew Gold (singer: Lonely Boy, Thank You for Being a Friend; son of composer Ernest Gold)
1952 - Paul David Crews SC murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1960 - Apollonia (Kotero), Prince's main squeeze
1960 - Linda Fratianne (Olympic silver medalist: figure skating [1980]; Walt Disney's World on Ice)
Famous deaths
0257 - Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter
0686 - John V, 1st Greek-Syrian Pope (685-86),
1002 - Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64
1100 - William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44
1788 - Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), dies at 61
1799 - Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, balloonist, dies at 54
1876 - Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's (This combo of cards later became know as dead man's hand) [H]
1921 - Opera singer Enrico Caruso died in Naples, Italy.
1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies
1923 - Warren G Harding, the 29th president of the United States, dies at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco California of a stroke at the age of fifty-eight. [H]
1934 - German President Paul von Hindenburg died, paving the way for Adolf Hitler's complete takeover. [H]
1945 - Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer (Donna Diana), dies at 85
1945 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (Cavalleria Rusticana), dies at 81
1956 - Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109
1979 - Thurmon Munson killed in a plane crash at Akron Ohio at age 32
1986 - Roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies of AIDS
1988 - Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50
1997 - "Naked Lunch" author William S. Burroughs, the godfather of the "Beat generation," died in Kansas City, Mo., at age 83.
2001 - Ron Townson, the centerpiece singer for the pop group the 5th Dimension, died of renal failure in Las Vegas. He was 68.
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