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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Aug 1924 | James Baldwin: New York, United States -- Author (Go Tell it on Mountain, Another Country) | |||
| 02 Aug 1924 | Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game | |||
| 02 Aug 1924 | James Baldwin, American author, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1987) | |||
| 02 Aug 1924 | Joe Harnell, American pianist and composer (d. 2005) | |||
| 02 Aug 1924 | Carroll O'Connor, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001) | |||
| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Aug 1949 | Bertalan Farkas: Bulgaria -- Cosmonaut (Soyuz 36 / 35) | |||
| 02 Aug 1949 | Madeleine Smith: Sussex, England -- Actress (Vampire Lovers) | |||
| 02 Aug 1949 | James Fallows, American journalist and author | |||
| 02 Aug 1949 | Bertalan Farkas, Hungarian general and astronaut | |||
| 02 Aug 1949 | WW2 | USS Manta was recommissioned into service with Lieutenant E. H. Edwards, Jr. in command. Her designation changed from SS-299 to ESS-299. | ||
| 02 Aug 1949 | birth Fat Larry, singer, Fat Larry's Band, (1982 UK No.2 single 'Zoom'). He died on 5th February 2000. | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Aug 1974 | Nabil Bouchlal: Soccer player (Willem II) | |||
| 02 Aug 1974 | Paul Grasmanis: Defensive tackle (Chicago Bears) | |||
| 02 Aug 1974 | Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress | |||
| 02 Aug 1974 | Phil Williams, English journalist | |||
| 02 Aug 1974 | Douglas Hawkes, English race car driver (b. 1893) | |||
| 02 Aug 1974 |
death Fred Allison Died 2 Aug 1974 at age 92 (born 4 Jul 1882). American physicist who promoted a magneto-optical technique to detect isotopes (ultimately shown to be non-existent by D. Morey under Merritt at Cornell). This method, he said, was able to distinguish 16 isotopes of lead. In 1931, he thought he had detected the new element 87 in lepidolite, a lithium ore, which he called virginium, now called francium. (This is regarded as erroneous because the element has no long-lived isotopes. The confirmed discovery came in Jan 1939 by Marguerite Perey who discovered it in decay products of actinium). He also thought he had found 2 micrograms of element 85 in monazite, which he named alabamine. (Also now believed erroneous. It was discovered later, and named astatine.) |
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| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Aug 1999 | Allen Brown, Australian public servant (b. 1911) | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Aug 2004 | Ferenc Berényi, Hungarian painter (b. 1929) | |||
| 02 Aug 2004 | François Craenhals, Belgian illustrator (b. 1926) | |||
| 02 Aug 2004 | Heinrich Mark, Estonian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1911) | |||
| 02 Aug 2004 | Don Tosti, American composer (b. 1923) | |||
| 02 Aug 2004 | Eric Clapton bought a 50% share in Cordings to save the historic gentleman's outfitters from closure. The store, based in London since 1839 had run into financial difficulties. The guitarist said he had been fond of the shop since a window display caught his eye when he was 16, and had become a regular shopper their. Cordings was the originator of the Covert coat and the Tattersall shirt and made riding boots for the Queen Mother, the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Simpson. | |||
02 Aug 2004
NASA |
NASA (space exploration) NASA successfully launches the MESSENGER probe on its 5-year trip to Mercury. |
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| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Aug 2014 | Ed Joyce, American journalist (b. 1932) | |||
| 02 Aug 2014 | Billie Letts, American author and educator (b. 1938) | |||
| 02 Aug 2014 | Barbara Prammer, Austrian politician (b. 1954) | |||
| 02 Aug 2014 | James Thompson, American-Finnish author (b. 1964) | |||
| 02 Aug 2014 | Pete van Wieren, American sportscaster (b. 1944) | |||
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