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Aug 2, 1917: Mutiny breaks out on German battleship
On August 2, 1917, with British forces settling into new positions captured from the Germans in the much-contested Ypres Salient on the Western Front of World War I, Germany faces more trouble closer to home, as a mutiny breaks out aboard the German battleship Prinzregent Luitpold, anchored at the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven.
During the August 2 mutiny, some 400 sailors marched into town calling for an end to the war and proclaiming their unwillingness to continue fighting. Although the demonstration was quickly brought under control by army officials and the sailors were persuaded to return to their ships without real violence that day, some 75 of them were arrested and imprisoned and the ringleaders of the mutiny were subsequently tried, convicted and executed. "I die with a curse on the German-militarist state," one of them, Albin Kobis, wrote his parents before he was shot by an army firing squad at Cologne. As Willy Weber, another convicted sailor, whose death sentence was later commuted to 15 years in prison, put it: "Nobody wanted a revolution, we just wanted to be treated more like human beings."
Discontent and rebellion within the German Imperial High Seas Fleet continued throughout the following year, as things went abysmally for Germany on the battlefields of the Western Front after the initial success of their spring offensive in 1918. It was rumored that naval commanders were plotting a last-ditch attempt, against the orders of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Reichstag government, to confront the mighty British navy and break the Allied blockade in the North Sea. The force of this rumor, combined with sinking morale, led to an even more significant mutiny at Wilhelmshaven on October 29, 1918, sparked by the arrest of some 300 sailors who had refused to obey orders.
The unrest soon spread to another German port city, Kiel, where on November 3 some 3,000 German sailors and workers rose in revolt, taking over ships and buildings and brandishing the red flag of communism. The following day, November 4, the rebels at Kiel formed the first Workers’ and Soldiers’ Council in Germany, defying the national government and seeking to act in the spirit of the Russian soviets. On the same day, the government of the Austro-Hungarian Empire asked the Allies for an armistice, which they were granted. An isolated and internally divided Germany was forced to sue for its own armistice barely a week later, and the First World War came to an end.
Here's an event in history that I can actually remember. Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, invading Kuwait. It would annex Kuwait some months later and, early the following year, Operation Desert Shield would convert to operation Desert Storm, and Iraq would be forced to leave Kuwait.
Aug 2, 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait
At about 2 a.m. local time, Iraqi forces invade Kuwait, Iraq's tiny, oil-rich neighbor. Kuwait's defense forces were rapidly overwhelmed, and those that were not destroyed retreated to Saudi Arabia. The emir of Kuwait, his family, and other government leaders fled to Saudi Arabia, and within hours Kuwait City had been captured and the Iraqis had established a provincial government. By annexing Kuwait, Iraq gained control of 20 percent of the world's oil reserves and, for the first time, a substantial coastline on the Persian Gulf. The same day, the United Nations Security Council unanimously denounced the invasion and demanded Iraq's immediate withdrawal from Kuwait. On August 6, the Security Council imposed a worldwide ban on trade with Iraq.
On August 9, Operation Desert Shield, the American defense of Saudi Arabia, began as U.S. forces raced to the Persian Gulf. Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, meanwhile, built up his occupying army in Kuwait to about 300,000 troops. On November 29, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq if it failed to withdraw by January 15, 1991. Hussein refused to withdraw his forces from Kuwait, which he had established as a province of Iraq, and some 700,000 allied troops, primarily American, gathered in the Middle East to enforce the deadline.
At 4:30 p.m. EST on January 16, 1991, Operation Desert Storm, the massive U.S.-led offensive against Iraq, began as the first fighter aircraft were launched from Saudi Arabia and off U.S. and British aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf. All evening, aircraft from the U.S.-led military coalition pounded targets in and around Baghdad as the world watched the events transpire on television footage transmitted live via satellite from Iraq. Operation Desert Storm was conducted by an international coalition under the supreme command of U.S. General Norman Schwarzkopf and featured forces from 32 nations, including Britain, Egypt, France, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.
During the next six weeks, the allied force engaged in an intensive air war against Iraq's military and civil infrastructure and encountered little effective resistance from the Iraqi air force or air defenses. Iraqi ground forces were helpless during this stage of the war, and Hussein's only significant retaliatory measure was the launching of SCUD missile attacks against Israel and Saudi Arabia. Saddam hoped that the missile attacks would provoke Israel to enter the conflict, thus dissolving Arab support of the war. At the request of the United States, however, Israel remained out of the war.
On February 24, a massive coalition ground offensive began, and Iraq's outdated and poorly supplied armed forces were rapidly overwhelmed. By the end of the day, the Iraqi army had effectively folded, 10,000 of its troops were held as prisoners, and a U.S. air base had been established deep inside Iraq. After less than four days, Kuwait was liberated, and the majority of Iraq's armed forces had either surrendered, retreated to Iraq, or been destroyed.
On February 28, U.S. President George Bush declared a cease-fire, and on April 3 the U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 687, specifying conditions for a formal end to the conflict. According to the resolution, Bush's cease-fire would become official, some sanctions would be lifted, but the ban on Iraqi oil sales would continue until Iraq destroyed its weapons of mass destruction under U.N. supervision. On April 6, Iraq accepted the resolution, and on April 11 the Security Council declared it in effect. During the next decade, Saddam Hussein frequently violated the terms of the peace agreement, prompting further allied air strikes and continuing U.N. sanctions.
In the Persian Gulf War, 148 American soldiers were killed and 457 wounded. The other allied nations suffered about 100 deaths combined during Operation Desert Storm. There are no official figures for the number of Iraqi casualties, but it is believed that at least 25,000 soldiers were killed and more than 75,000 were wounded, making it one of the most one-sided military conflicts in history. It is estimated that 100,000 Iraqi civilians died from wounds or from lack of adequate water, food, and medical supplies directly attributable to the Persian Gulf War. In the ensuing years, more than one million Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the subsequent U.N. sanctions.
Also on this dat in history, Hindenburg died, which was probably the last major obstacle facing Hitler's desire for total power in Germany.
Aug 2, 1934: President of the Weimar Republic Hindenburg dies
On this day in 1934, Paul von Hindenburg, president of the Weimar Republic of Germany, dies, opening the door for the tyranny of Adolf Hitler, whom he had appointed chancellor in 1933.
Hindenburg's life was one immersed in the Prussian military tradition. His father was a Prussian officer, and Hindenburg fought in the Seven Weeks' War (with Austria) at age 19, and later in the Franco-Prussian War. He was eventually promoted to the rank of general before retiring from the military in 1911.
But it was during World War I that Hindenburg came to national prominence. He was asked to serve as the superior to Major General Erich Ludendorff, a prominent army strategist. Ludendorff succeeded in driving Russian invaders from East Prussia-but it was Hindenburg who was given the credit. As the war progressed, Hindenburg's stature grew to epic proportions, even influencing Emperor Wilhelm II to make him commander of all land forces, despite Hindenburg's rather dubious strategic skills. In fact, severe miscalculations on Hindenburg's part resulted in Germany's defeat, which Hindenburg then blamed on Ludendorff. (And which Ludendorff and the generals then blamed on the politicians.)
A monarchist fond of authoritarian regimes, Hindenburg nevertheless took the reigns of the postwar republican government as president in 1925. Fearful of social unrest (from both the far right and far left), in light of the Depression and the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which demanded heavy reparations from Germany as the terms of its surrender, Hindenburg authorized his chancellor, Heinrich Bruning, to dissolve the Reichstag (parliament) if necessary and call for new elections—which he did. Those new elections ushered in the Nazi Party as the second largest party in the Reichstag.
Re-elected as president in 1932, Hindenburg had already lost the support of many of the more conservative elements in the government, who were flocking to Hitler's party, which they saw as the key to renewed German prestige and the bulwark against Bolshevism. After a succession of chancellors proved ineffectual in reversing Germany's economic slide, and gaining the Nazi support necessary to keep a coalition together, Hindenburg reluctantly named Hitler chancellor of Germany. Hindenburg was never an ardent Hitler supporter, but he did little to impede him as Hitler began employing terror tactics in his drive to consolidate power for the Nazis.
When Hindenburg died, he was still a respected figure nationwide and was buried, with his wife, at Tannenberg, the sight of the great victory against the Russians during World War I. As World War II was came to a close, their bodies were removed so that the advancing Russians would not get at them. They were ultimately reburied by Americans at Marburg.
Origins of "Dead Man's Hand"
Aug 2, 1876: Wild Bill Hickok is murdered
"Wild Bill" Hickok, one of the greatest gunfighters of the American West, is murdered in Deadwood, South Dakota.
Born in Illinois in 1837, James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok first gained notoriety as a gunfighter in 1861 when he coolly shot three men who were trying to kill him. A highly sensationalized account of the gunfight appeared six years later in the popular periodical Harper's New Monthly Magazine, sparking Hickok's rise to national fame. Other articles and books followed, and though his prowess was often exaggerated, Hickok did earn his reputation with a string of impressive gunfights.
After accidentally killing his deputy during an 1871 shootout in Abilene, Texas, Hickok never fought another gun battle. For the next several years he lived off his famous reputation, appearing as himself in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. Occasionally, he worked as guide for wealthy hunters. His renowned eyesight began to fail, and for a time he was reduced to wandering the West trying to make a living as a gambler. Several times he was arrested for vagrancy.
In the spring of 1876, Hickok arrived in the Black Hills mining town of Deadwood, South Dakota. There he became a regular at the poker tables of the No. 10 Saloon, eking out a meager existence as a card player. On this day in 1876, Hickok was playing cards with his back to the saloon door. At 4:15 in the afternoon, a young gunslinger named Jack McCall walked into the saloon, approached Hickok from behind, and shot him in the back of the head. Hickok died immediately. McCall tried to shoot others in the crowd, but amazingly, all of the remaining cartridges in his pistol were duds. McCall was later tried, convicted, and hanged.
Hickok was only 39 years old when he died. The most famous gunfighter in the history of the West died with his Smith & Wesson revolver in his holster, never having seen his murderer. According to legend, Hickok held a pair of black aces and black eights when he died, a combination that has since been known as the Dead Man's Hand.
Philip II of Macedonia defeated the combined army of Athens and Thebes in 338BC on this date. Jews were expelled from Spain. Horace the Saussure climbed to the top of Mont Blanc. Napoleon was given title of "Counsel for Life". Charles X abdicated the throne to the Duke of Bordeaux. The first parachute jump in the United States occured on this day. The first mailboxes went up in Boston and New York City. Lewis Carroll published "Alice in Wonderland". The Tower Subway in London was opened, becoming the firtst underground public transportation system to do so. The anniversary of the "Dead Man's Hand" is today, as "Wild" Bill Hickok was killed with a pair of black aces and black eights in his hand. Lincoln pennies began to be minted on this day in 1909. France and Germany declared war on one another in 1914, as World War I really got going. Hindenburg died on this day, which Hitler quickly took advantage of to assume more powers for himself and the Nazis, making himself Commander-in-Chief. An armed revolt broke out in Treblinka. The Potsdam Conference between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill ended. This was the anniversary of the Pentago reporting that North Vietnam had attacked two American vessels, which led to stepped up American involvement in Vietnam, in what would become the longest war that the United States had ever gotten involved in (since surpassed by American involvement in Afghanistan). Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded Kuwait on this day in 1990.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
338 BC - 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.
216 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae - Carthaginian
army lead by Hannibal defeats numerically superior Roman army under command
consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
257 - St Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1057 - Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium Pope
Stephen IX [X]
1492 - Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
1542 - French troops leave Flanders
1552 - Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran
religion
1578 - Battle of Rijmenam
1581 - Leiden University names Snellius math professor
1610 - Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the
Hudson Bay
1665 - French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers
1704 - Duke of Marlborough beats French & Bavarians at
Blenheim
1718 - Austrian joins Triple Alliance
1738 - France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war
against Turkey
1776 - Members of the Continental Congress (56 of them) began formally adding their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.
1782 - George Washington creates Honorary Badge of
Distinction
1786 - Utrechtse Vroedschap flees
1787 - Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc
1790 - The first US Census is conducted.
1791 - Samuel Briggs and his son Samuel Briggs, Jr. received a joint patent for their nail-making machine. They were the first father-son pair to receive a patent.
1798 - British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at
Battle of Nile
1802 - Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life"
1819 - 1st parachute jump in US
1824 - In New York City, Fifth Avenue was opened.
1824 - In New York City, Fifth Avenue was opened.
1830 - Charles X of France abdicates in favour of his
grandson the Duc de Bordeaux
1831 - Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium
1832 - Battle of Bad Axe, Wisconsin: 1,300 Illinois militia
defeat Sauk & Fox Native Americans ending the Black Hawk War in the US
1858 - 1st mailboxes installed in Boston and NYC streets
1858 - Government of India transferred from East India
Company to Crown
1861 - Skirmish at Dug Springs, MI
1861 - The United States Congress passed the first income tax. The revenues were intended for the war effort against the South. The tax was never enacted.
1861 - The United States Congress passed the first income tax. The revenues were intended for the war effort against the South. The tax was never enacted.
1864 - 2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
1865 - Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland"
1865 - Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern
snaps & is lost
1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube
railway, opens in London.
1873 - 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between
Kearny & Jones
1875 - 1st roller skating rink opens (London)
1877 - SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
1884 - Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent
1887 - Rowell Hodge patented barbed wire.
1892 - Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the
escalator
1894 - Death duties 1st introduced in Britain
1894 - Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter
1903 - Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
1906 - Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak
1907 - Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington &
loses 3-2 to Detroit
1909 - 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
1909 - Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from
Wright Brothers
1911 - Haiti's dictator Simon flees on US warship near
Jamaica
1912 - 18th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC
of Buffalo NY
1914 - Belgian government receives German ultimatum
1914 - German press falsely reports that French bombed
Nuremberg
1914 - German troops overthrows Luxembourg
1914 - Germany & Turkey signs secret treaty
1914 - Great Britain mobilizes
1914 - Postdam Conference ended
1914 - Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia
1914 - Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow"
takes place
1916 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of
the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
1918 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to
Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1920 - Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa"
program in NYC
1921 - Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the
Black Sox. Eight White Sox players were acquitted of throwing the 1919 World Series.
1922 - China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die
1924 - Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game
1926 - John Barrymore and Mary Astor starred in the first showing of the Vitaphone System. The system was the combining of picture and sound for movies.
1928 - Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1928 - Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1929 - Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive
games with a HR
1931 - Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status
1932 - Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of
Chicago Cubs
1932 - The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is
discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
1934 - 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind
it
1934 - Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany
1934 - William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280
times in 1 hour
1937 - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America,
essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
1938 - Bright yellow baseballs were used in a major league baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Chicago Cardinals. It was hoped that the balls would be easier to see.
1939 - Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the U.S. to have an atomic weapons research program.
1938 - Bright yellow baseballs were used in a major league baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Chicago Cardinals. It was hoped that the balls would be easier to see.
1939 - Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the U.S. to have an atomic weapons research program.
1938 - 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals)
1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act. The act prohibited civil service employees from taking an active part in political campaigns.
1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act. The act prohibited civil service employees from taking an active part in political campaigns.
1939 - Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal
workers
1940 - Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to
death
1940 - KL-House of saxon & commandos focus on Gross
Rosen, Silesia
1941 - German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at
Oeman
1941 - Hungarian Ruthenia, expels Jews
1941 - Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
1942 - 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to
Amersfoort camp
1942 - Col-Gen Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo
1943 - Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka
1943 - The U.S. Navy patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, sank by the Solomon Islands after being attacked by a Japanese destroyer. The boat was under the command of Lt. John F. Kennedy.
1943 - RAF bombs Hamburg
1943 - Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 & U-106
1943 - Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium
destroyed)
1944 - Amsterdam soccer team "The Volewijckers"
plays in orange shirts
1944 - Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their
bunker
1944 - Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with Nazi-Germany
1945 - Potsdam Conference, where the victorious Allied leaders - Stalin, Truman and Churchill -ended. it had focused
1953 - Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in
car crash
1953 - KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins
broadcasting
1954 - Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia
1955 - USSR performs nuclear test
1958 - Jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation,
after 3 months
1959 - 41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at
Minneapolis GC
1959 - Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded
triples
1959 - SF Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his
521 HRs
1961 - Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern
Club
1961 - Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo
1961 - St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL)
36-7 in Toronto
1962 - NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15
to 32,600 m
1963 - 30th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green
Bay 17 (65,000)
1964 - Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1964 - The Pentagon reported the first of two North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1964 - Race riot in Jersey City NJ
1965 - Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we
are losing
1966 - Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting
1967 - New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to
LA Rams 16-77
1967 - US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug
5
1967 - The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich,
London.
1968 - 35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 34,
All-Stars 17 (69,917)
Singer-Songwriter Bob DylanSinger-Songwriter Bob Dylan
1969 - Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minn 10th reunion
1969 - Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minn 10th reunion
1969 - Pres Nixon visits Romania
1970 - Baltimore defeats KC 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win
over the Royals
1970 - France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1972 - Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London
1973 - George Brett gets his 1st hit
1975 - 104°F (40°C) at Providence, Rhode Island (state
record)
1975 - 107°F (42°C) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts
(state record)
1979 - "Broadway Opry '79" closes at St James
Theater NYC after 6 perfs
1979 - Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway
1980 - Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station,
86 killed
1980 - US swimmers set 3 world records at National
championships
1981 - Australia set 151 to win, all out 121, Botham 5-11 in
14 overs
1981 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1982 - Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of
the season
1982 - Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network
1983 - STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
1983 - US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of
race discrimination
1983 - U.S. House of Representatives approved a law that designated the third Monday of January would be a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The law was signed by President Reagan on November 2.
1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
1985 - Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Fort Worth
Airport, 137 die
1985 - NASA launches space vehicle S-209
1986 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon
(7161 pts)
1986 - TODAY/PC born today
1987 - 25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver
Canada (2-1)
1987 - Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National
Golf Pro-Am
1987 - Cin Red Eric Davis becomes 7th & earliest 30 HR
30 steal man
1987 - Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds
1'3")
1987 - Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
in one season
1987 - Kevin Seitzer (KC Royals), gets 6 hits in one
baseball game
1987 - Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in
history (171.49 MPH)
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1987 - "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was re-released. The film was 50 years old at the time of its re-release.
1988 - Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo
1988 - System Enhancement Association settles case with
PKware (ARC vs PKARC)
1989 - NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons
of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24
1990 - Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by OPEC. The Emir fled to Saudi Arabia.
1990 - Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his 10th home run in
just 77 at bats
1991 - Funk singer
Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges
1991 - Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA
1991 - Mike Jeffcoat is 1st AL pitcher to get an RBI since
1972
1991 - Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched
1992 - "Death & the Maiden" closes at Brooks
Atkinson NYC after 159 perfs
1992 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Welch's Golf Classic
1992 - Tom Seaver, R Fingers, Hal Newhouser, & B McGowan
enter Hall of Fame
1993 - NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes
1993 - Peter Angelos & William DeWitt purchase Orioles
1993 - Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12
killed
1993 - Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially
takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 & WHK-AM/1420
1994 - Congressional hearings begin on White Water
1994 - Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+
killed
1994 - NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial
disclosure
1994 - Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11)
1995 - China ordered the expulsion of two U.S. Air Force officers. The two were said to have been caught spying on military sights.
1998 - 26th du Maurier Golf Classic
1998 - 26th du Maurier Golf Classic
1998 - 30th Curtis Cup: US wins 10-8 at The Minikahda Club
(Minneapolis, Minnesota, US)
2012 - 23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit
market in Lahore, Pakistan
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/aug02.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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