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| August 2nd |
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| About August 2nd is the 214th day of the year (215th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 151 days remaining until the end of the year. Births 1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. Navy officer in War of 1812 1932 - Peter O'Toole, actor (Lawrence of Arabia) 1932 - Lamar Hunt, Hall of Fame football owner 1950 - Lance Ito, judge (presided in O.J. Simpson murder trial) 1959 - Victoria Jackson, comedian, actress, singer (Saturday Night Live) 1970 - Kevin Smith, screenwriter, director, actor (Clerks, Dogma) Deaths 1876 - Wild Bill Hickok, Old West figure, Hall of Fame poker player 1914 - John Philip Holland, engineer, developed the submarine 1923 - Warren G. Harding, 29th U.S. President 1979 - Thurman Munson, former New York Yankee, died in air crash 1997 - William S. Burroughs, novelist, painter, social critic (Naked Lunch) Events 1923 - In a Deadwood, South Dakota saloon, Wild Bill Hickok is shot dead during a game of poker. 1943 - Future President John F. Kennedy, serving as commander of a torpedo boat in the Solomon Islands, sees his boat attacked by the Japanese navy. 1955 - The movie To Catch a Thief, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, debuts. 1990 - Kuwait's defense forces become rapidly overwhelmed as Iraq begins to invade its oil rich neighboring country. 1992 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee wins her second straight Olympic gold medal in the heptathlon, becoming the first female athlete to achieve that. |
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