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Events on the 2nd of August in history

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02 Aug 0216 Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
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02 Aug 0257 St. Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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02 Aug 0338 A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
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02 Aug 0461 Majorian is arrested near Tortona (Northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.
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02 Aug 1057 Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium, Pope Stephen IX [X]
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02 Aug 1274 Edward I of England returns from the crusades and is crowned King seventeen days later.
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02 Aug 1343 Olivier de Clisson is found guilty of treason and beheaded at Les Halles in Paris. As a result, his wife, Jeanne de Clisson, sold their holding, bought a fleet of ships, and took to the sea as a pirate to seek revenge against the French King and nobility.
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02 Aug 1377 Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River.
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02 Aug 1492 Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
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02 Aug 1542 French troops leave Flanders
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02 Aug 1552 Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion
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02 Aug 1578 Battle of Rijmenam
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02 Aug 1581 Leiden University names Snellius Math Professor
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02 Aug 1610 Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay
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02 Aug 1610 Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
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02 Aug 1665 French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis / Algiers
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02 Aug 1704 Duke of Marlborough beats French and Bavarians at Blenheim
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02 Aug 1718 Austrian joins Triple Alliance
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02 Aug 1738 France offers Emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey
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02 Aug 1776 Formal signing of Declaration of Independence
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02 Aug 1776 The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
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02 Aug 1782 George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction
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02 Aug 1786 Utrechtse Vroedschap flees
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02 Aug 1787 Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc
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02 Aug 1790 The first United States Census is conducted.
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02 Aug 1791 Samuel Briggs and his son, patent nail-making machine
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02 Aug 1798 British under Admiral Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile
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02 Aug 1798 French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
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02 Aug 1802 Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life"
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02 Aug 1819 1st parachute jump in US
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02 Aug 1830 Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
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02 Aug 1831 Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium
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02 Aug 1832 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac and Fox indians, end Black Hawk War
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02 Aug 1832 Black Hawk defeated (IA)
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02 Aug 1832 Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisc
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02 Aug 1858 1st mailboxes installed in Boston and NYC streets
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02 Aug 1858 Government of India transferred from East India Company to Crown
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02 Aug 1861 Skirmish at Dug Springs, MI
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02 Aug 1864 2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
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02 Aug 1865 Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps and is lost
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02 Aug 1869 Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
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02 Aug 1870 Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
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02 Aug 1873 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny and Jones
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02 Aug 1873 The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
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02 Aug 1877 San Francisco Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
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02 Aug 1884 Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent
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02 Aug 1887 Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
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02 Aug 1892 Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator
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02 Aug 1894 Death duties 1st introduced in Britain
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02 Aug 1894 Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter
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02 Aug 1897 Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.
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02 Aug 1903 Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
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02 Aug 1903 Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
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02 Aug 1906 Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak
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02 Aug 1907 Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington and loses 3-2 to Detroit
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02 Aug 1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
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02 Aug 1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
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02 Aug 1912 18th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at Country Club - Buffalo, New York
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02 Aug 1914 Belgian government receives German ultimatum
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02 Aug 1914 German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg
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02 Aug 1914 German troops overthrows Luxembourg
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02 Aug 1914 Germany and Turkey signs secret treaty
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02 Aug 1914 Great Britain mobilizes
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02 Aug 1914 Postdam Conference ended
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02 Aug 1914 Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia
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02 Aug 1914 Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place
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02 Aug 1916 World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
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02 Aug 1918 Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
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02 Aug 1918 The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
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02 Aug 1920 Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in New York City
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02 Aug 1921 Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox
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02 Aug 1922 China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die
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02 Aug 1922 A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.
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02 Aug 1923 Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding
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02 Aug 1924 Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game
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02 Aug 1928 Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
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02 Aug 1929 Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR
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02 Aug 1931 Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status
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02 Aug 1932 Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chicago Cubs
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02 Aug 1932 The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
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02 Aug 1934 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
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02 Aug 1934 Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany
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02 Aug 1934 William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour
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02 Aug 1934 Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
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02 Aug 1937 The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
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02 Aug 1938 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs. Cardinals)
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02 Aug 1939 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
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02 Aug 1939 Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
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02 Aug 1940 Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death
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02 Aug 1940 KL-House of saxon and commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia
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02 Aug 1941 German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman
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02 Aug 1941 Hungarian Ruthenia, expels Jews
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02 Aug 1941 Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
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02 Aug 1942 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp
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02 Aug 1943 Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka
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02 Aug 1943 RAF bombs Hamburg
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02 Aug 1943 Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 and U-106
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02 Aug 1943 Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed)
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02 Aug 1943 Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
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02 Aug 1943 World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
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02 Aug 1944 Amsterdam soccer team "The Volewijckers" plays in orange shirts
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02 Aug 1944 Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker
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02 Aug 1944 Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with Nazi-Germany
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02 Aug 1944 ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
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02 Aug 1944 World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
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02 Aug 1945 Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman and Churchill
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02 Aug 1945 World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.
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02 Aug 1947 A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found for over 50 years.
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02 Aug 1953 Betty Jack Davis, singer (w / Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash
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02 Aug 1953 KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting
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02 Aug 1954 Tahar Ben Ammar appointed Premier of Tunisia
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02 Aug 1958 Jordan and Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months
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02 Aug 1959 41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis Golf Club
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02 Aug 1959 Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples
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02 Aug 1959 San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 HRs
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02 Aug 1961 Cyrille Adula becomes Premier of Congo
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02 Aug 1961 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto
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02 Aug 1963 30th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17 (65,000)
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02 Aug 1964 Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees
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02 Aug 1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
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02 Aug 1964 North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin
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02 Aug 1964 Race riot in Jersey City, New Jersey
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02 Aug 1964 Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyer USS Maddox.
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02 Aug 1966 Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting
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02 Aug 1967 New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to LA Rams 16-77
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02 Aug 1968 35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17 (69,917)
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02 Aug 1968 An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
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02 Aug 1969 Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minn 10th reunion
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02 Aug 1969 President Nixon visits Romania
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02 Aug 1970 Baltimore defeats Kansas City 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals
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02 Aug 1970 Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in California
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02 Aug 1972 Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London
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02 Aug 1973 George Brett gets his 1st hit
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02 Aug 1973 A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
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02 Aug 1979 Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway
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02 Aug 1980 Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed
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02 Aug 1980 US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships
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02 Aug 1980 Bologna massacre: a terrorist bombing of the Central Station at Bologna, Italy, kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
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02 Aug 1981 Australia set 151 to win, all out 121, Botham 5-11 in 14 overs
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02 Aug 1981 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
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02 Aug 1983 STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
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02 Aug 1983 US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination
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02 Aug 1985 5 die in a train crash in Westminster, Colorado
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02 Aug 1985 Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft Worth Airport, 137 die
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02 Aug 1985 Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
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02 Aug 1986 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)
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02 Aug 1986 TODAY / PC born today
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02 Aug 1987 25th Tennis Federation Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1)
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02 Aug 1987 Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
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02 Aug 1987 Cin Red Eric Davis becomes 7th and earliest 30 HR 30 steal man
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02 Aug 1987 Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 HRs and steal 30 bases in one season
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02 Aug 1987 Kevin Seitzer (Kansas City Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game
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02 Aug 1987 Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 mph)
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02 Aug 1988 Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo
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02 Aug 1988 System Enhancement Association settles case with PKware (ARC vs. PKARC)
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02 Aug 1989 Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
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02 Aug 1990 Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia
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02 Aug 1990 Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his 10th home run in just 77 at bats
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02 Aug 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
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02 Aug 1991 Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges
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02 Aug 1991 Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA
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02 Aug 1991 Mike Jeffcoat is 1st AL pitcher to get an RBI since 1972
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02 Aug 1991 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched
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02 Aug 1992 "Death & the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 159 performances
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02 Aug 1992 Kevin Bacon marries Kyra Sedgwick
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02 Aug 1992 Tom Seaver, R Fingers, Hal Newhouser, and B McGowan enter Hall of Fame
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02 Aug 1993 Peter Angelos and William DeWitt purchase Orioles
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02 Aug 1993 Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed
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02 Aug 1994 Congressional hearings begin on White Water
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02 Aug 1994 Explosion in lead / zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed
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02 Aug 1994 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11)
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02 Aug 1998 26th du Maurier Golf Classic
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02 Aug 1998 30th Curtis Cup
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02 Aug 1998 The Second Congo War begins.
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02 Aug 2005 Air France Flight 358 crashes at Pearson Airport in Toronto; all passengers and crew survive.
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