Coronado Island, San Diego, California – August 2, 2010
Today in History (August 2)
2004 Former President Gerald Ford suffers a stroke during the Republican National Convention
1994 Congressional hearings begin on White Water
1992 Kevin Bacon marries Kyra Sedgwick
1991 Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges
1991 Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in Los Angeles
1991 Space shuttle STS-43 (Atlantis 9) launched
1990 Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia
1989 NASA confirmed Voyager 2′s discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3
and 1989 N24
1987 Kevin Seitzer (Kansas City Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game
1987 Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)
1979 Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway
1965 Morley Safer’s sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
1964 North Vietnam fires on a U.S. destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin
1961 Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool’s Cavern Club
1945 Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman and Churchill
1943 Lt. John F. Kennedy’s PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
1934 Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany
1922 China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die
1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
1892 Charles A. Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator
1887 Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
1875 World 1st roller skating rink opens in London
1873 1st trial run of San Francisco cable car, Clay Street between Kearny and Jones
1865 Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland"
1858 1st mailboxes installed in Boston and New York City streets
1858 Government of India transferred from East India Company to Crown
1819 1st parachute jump in U.S.
1610 Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay
Today’s Birthdays
1993 Cassidy Gifford, daughter of Frank and Kathy Lee
1977 Edward Furlong, born in Pasedina, California, actor, John Connor-Terminator 2
1970 Kevin Smith, director, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Clerks
1964 Mary-Louise Parker, Ft. Jackson, South Carolina, actress, Fried Green Tomatoes
1960 Apollonia, Patricia Kotero, born in Santa Monica, California, actress, Purple Rain
1953 Butch Patrick, actor, Eddie Munster-Munster
1950 Lance Ito, judge, O. J. Simpson trial
1943 Kathy Lennon, singer, Lennon Sisters
1943 Max Wright, Detroit, actor, Buffalo Bill, Alf, Misfits of Science
1939 Edward Pattern, born in Atlanta, Georgia, singer, Gladys Knight and the Pips
1939 Wes Craven, born in Cleveland, Ohio, director, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream
1932 Peter O’Toole, born in Ireland, actor, Lord Jim, Beckett, Lawrence of Arabia
1926 Betsy Bloomingdale, department store mogul
1922 Carroll O’Connor, New York City, actor, All in the Family, Heat of the Night
1916 Beatrice Straight, Old Westbury, New York, actress, Poltergeist, Nun’s Story
1914 Gary Merrill, Hartford Conn, actor, Young Dr. Kildare, All About Eve
1905 Myrna Loy, Helena, Montana, actress, Jazz Singer, Thin Man, Vanity Fair
1892 Jack Warner, U.S. movie studio head, Warner Bros
1835 Elisha Gray, American Inventor
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