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| Birthday August 02, 1696 Mahmud I Ottoman, sultan, fought Austrians & Russians |
| Birthday August 02, 1884 R"mulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist (Do¤a B rbara), pres. (1948) |
| Birthday August 02, 1905 Myrna Loy, Actress (Rebound, Emma) in Montana |
| Birthday August 02, 1914 Gary Merrill, Actor |
| Birthday August 02, 1922 Paul Laxalt, (R-Sen-Nev) |
| Birthday August 02, 1924 Carroll O'Conner, aka Archie Bunker |
| Birthday August 02, 1924 James Baldwin, American novelist (Another Country) |
| Birthday August 02, 1926 Betsy Bloomingdale, Dept Store mogul |
| Birthday August 02, 1932 Lamar Hunt, owner of NFL Kansas City Chiefs |
| Birthday August 02, 1933 Peter O'Toole, Actor (Lord Jim, Beckett) |
| Birthday August 02, 1934 Valery Bykovsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, 31) |
| Birthday August 02, 1939 Freddy Krueger creator Wes Craven born |
| Birthday August 02, 1946 Bob Beamon, long jumper |
| Birthday August 02, 1949 Bertalan Farkas, 1st Hungarian space traveler (Soyuz 36) |
| Birthday August 02, 1960 Apollonia (Kotero), Prince's main squeeze |
| Birthday August 02, 1960 Linda Fratianne, figure skater |
| Birthday August 02, 1986 TODAY/PC born today |
| History August 02, 1776 Formal signing of Dec of Ind |
| History August 02, 1776 Delegates sign Declaration of Independence |
| History August 02, 1858 1st street mailboxes - Boston Mass |
| History August 02, 1865 CSS Shenandoah learns the war is over |
| History August 02, 1869 George Eliot begins Middlemarch |
| History August 02, 1873 1st trial run of SF cable car Clay Street between Kearny & Jones |
| History August 02, 1876 Wild Bill Hickok is murdered |
| History August 02, 1877 SF Public Library opens with 5000 volumes |
| History August 02, 1903 Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey |
| History August 02, 1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted |
| History August 02, 1917 Mutiny breaks out on German battleship |
| History August 02, 1923 Pres Harding dies at Palace Hotel SF |
| History August 02, 1923 Harding dies before scandals break |
| History August 02, 1934 Hitler becomes fuhrer |
| History August 02, 1934 President of the Weimar Republic Hindenburg dies |
| History August 02, 1934 Hitler takes over presidency when Paul Von Hindenburg died at 86 |
| History August 02, 1939 Einstein urges U.S. atomic action |
| History August 02, 1942 Man murdered near L.A. reservoir |
| History August 02, 1943 Japanese forces attack PT boat with Kennedy on board |
| History August 02, 1945 Potsdam Conference concludes |
| History August 02, 1964 North Vietnamese torpedo boats attack U.S. destroyer |
| History August 02, 1965 Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing |
| History August 02, 1971 Nixon administration acknowledges secret army in Laos |
| History August 02, 1975 Billy Martin named manager of NY Yankees (1st time) |
| History August 02, 1979 Thurmon Munson killed in a plane crash at Akron Ohio at age 32 |
| History August 02, 1983 Legendary Motown bassist James Jamerson dies |
| History August 02, 1985 Sudden thunderstorm causes plane crash |
| History August 02, 1987 Michael Andretti races to fast finish at Marlboro 500 |
| History August 02, 1992 Jackie Joyner-Kersee wins gold in heptathlon, again |