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Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of August 02:

 1696 Mahmud I Ottoman sultan, fought Austrians & Russians
1754 Pierre Charles L'Enfant France, architect laid out Wash DC
1832 Henry Steel Olcott 1st president of Theosophical Society
1878 Princess Ingeborg of Sweden
1884 R¢mulo Gallegos Venezuela, novelist (Do¤a B rbara), pres (1948)
1891 Sir Arthur Bliss (Edward Drummond) London, composer (Olympians)
1892 John Kieran NYC, columnist/author (Natural History of NYC)
19-- Lisa Brown KC, Mo, actress (Guiding Light, Iva-As the World Turns)
19-- Max Wright Detroit, actor (Buffalo Bill, Alf, Misfits of Science)
19-- Tim Dunigan St Louis, actor (A-Team, Mr Smith, Wizards & Warriors)
19-- W K Stratton Front Royal Va, actor (Lt Casey-Baa Baa Black Sheep)
1905 Myrna Loy Montana, actress (Rebound, Emma)
1910 Lou Zara NYC, writer (Stump the Authors)
1914 Gary Merrill Hartford Conn, actor (Young Dr Kildare, All About Eve)
1916 Beatrice Straight Old Westbury NY, actress (Poltergeist, Nun's Story)
1922 Carroll O'Connor NYC, actor (All in the Family, Heat of the Night)
1922 Paul Laxalt (Sen-R-Nev)
1924 James Baldwin US writer (Another Country)
1926 Betsy Bloomingdale dept store mogul
1932 Lamar Hunt owns NFL KC Chiefs
1932 Peter O'Toole Ireland, actor (Lord Jim, Beckett, Lawrence of Arabia)
1934 Albert W Hall actor (Apocalypse Now)
1934 Valery Bykovsky cosmonaut (Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, 31)
1937 William Cannon football player (Heisman-1959)
1938 Brunhilde Hendrix German FR, relay runner (Olympic-silver-1960)
1938 Yvonne Regg Switzerland, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 Edward Pattern Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
1940 Doris Kenner Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
1942 Garth Hudson keyboardist (The Band)
1944 Joanna Cassidy [Caskey], Haddonfield NJ, actress (240 Robert)
1946 Bob Beamon long jumper (Olympic-gold-1968 29' 2«" (8.9m))
1949 Bertalan Farkas 1st Hungarian space traveler (Soyuz 36)
1950 Kathryn Harrold Tarzewell Va, actress (MacGruder & Loud)
1951 Andrew Gold Burbank, rocker (Lonely Boy)
1952 Paul David Crews SC, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1955 Roberta Wallach NYC, actress (Civil Wars)
1956 Isabel Pantoja Spain, spanish singer (Genio y Figura)
1959 Britt Helfer Utah, actress (Lily-Loving, Alley Cat)
1960 Apollonia [Patricia Kotero], Santa Monica Ca, actress (Purple Rain)
1960 Linda Fratianne US, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)
1967 Aaron Krickstein Ann Arbor, Mich, tennis player (Tel Aviv 1983)
1967 Derek Wells LA Calif, actor (Fitzpatricks)
1973 Kia Goodwin Livingston NJ, actress (Tiffany Holloway-227)
1977 Edward Furlong Pasedina Calif, actor (John Connor-Terminator 2)
1991 Gabriel Anthony Cohen son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen

Deaths which occurred on August 02:

1075 John VIII Xiphilinus theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies
1876 Wild Bill Hickok shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while
           poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's
1923 Pres Harding dies at Palace Hotel, SF
1934 Paul Von Hindenburg dies at 86, Hitler takes over presidency
1964 Jack Kirkwood actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69
1967 Claude A Barnett founded Associated Negro Press, dies at 78
1972 Brian Cole rocker with the Association, dies of heroin OD at 28
1979 Thurmon Munson killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32
1982 Cathleen Nesbitt English actress (Seperate Tables), dies at 93
1985 Frank Faylen vaudevillian, dies at 79 of pneumonia
1988 Raymond Carver poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50
1991 Gabriel Cohen son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1965    DAUGHTREY        ROBERT NORLAN     DEL RIO               TX     02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV INJURED     ALIVE AND WELL 98
 1965    HAIL             WILLIAM WARREN    LOS ANGELES           CA       
 1967    CUNNINGHAM       CAREY A.          COLLINGSVILLE         AL        REMAINS RETURNED 1989 IDENTIFIED 04/01/98
 1967    HYNDS            WALLACE G. JR.    SUMTER                SC       
 1969    TALKEN           GEORGE FRANCIS    CHICO                 CA

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On this day...

257 St Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
640 Severinus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
686 John V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1375 1st roller skating rink opens (London)
1492 Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
1776 Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence
1798 British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile
1819 1st parachute jump in US
1832 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac & Fox indians, end Black Hawk War
1832 Black Hawk defeated (IA)
1832 Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisc
1858 1st street mailboxes-Boston, Mass
1864 2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
1873 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
1877 SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
1903 Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
1906 Chicago White Sox begin record 19 game win streak
1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
1914 Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place
1929 Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR
1932 Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chic Cubs
1934 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
1934 William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour
1938 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals)
1939 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
1941 Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
1943 PT-109 rammed & sunk
1959 Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples
1961 Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club
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
1964 North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in 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
1972 Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London
1975 Billy Martin named manager of NY Yankees (1st time)
1979 Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway
1980 US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships
1983 STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
1983 US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination
1985 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
1985 NASA launches space vehicle S-209
1986 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)
1986 TODAY/PC born today
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 Kevin Seitzer (KC Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game
1987 Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)
1988 Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo
1988 System Enhancement Assoc 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 invades & occupies Kuwait
1991 Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges
1991 Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA
1991 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched




Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Costa Rica : Virgin of Angels feast
Grenada : Emancipation Day
Lesotho : National Tree Planting Day
Malawi : Bank Holiday
Arizona, Michigan : American Family Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Italy : Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island : Emancipation Day (1838) - - - - - ( Monday )
British Commonwealth : Bank Holiday - - - - - ( Monday )
Canada : Civic Holiday (1st Monday) - - - - - ( Monday )
Colorado : Colorado Day (1876) - - - - - ( Monday )
Jamaica : Independence Day (1962) - - - - - ( Monday )
St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla : August Monday - - - - - ( Monday )
US : National Smile Week begins - - - - - ( Monday )
Grasmere England : Rush-Bearing Day - - - - - ( Saturday )

Religious Observances

Orth : St Elias Day
RC : Memorial of Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop (opt)
Old RC : Feast of St Alphonsus Mary de Liguori, bishop

Religious History

1776 English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'Use all the ability which God gives, and He will give you more.'
1907 The Vatican issued the decree "Ne temere," declaring that marriages of Catholics were valid only if celebrated before a duly qualified priest and at least two witnesses.
1946 English literary scholar and Christian apologist C. S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'Apologetic work is so dangerous to one's faith. A doctrine never seems dimmer to me than when I have just successfully defended it.'
1948 American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot penned this prayer in his journal: 'Father, teach me the speed of eternity. Synchronize my movements with the speed of Thine Own heart then, hasting or halting, I shall be in good time.'
1982 Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'There is the constant danger of slipping into the idea that if a person has sufficient faith, he will always be healed. This is clearly not what the Bible teaches.'

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

Thought for the day :

" The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. "
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