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2nd August
Photograph by © Erin Kunkel
Born on this Day
1892 Jack L Warner
1905 Myrna Loy
1925 Alan Whicker
1932 Peter O'Toole
1939 Wes Craven
1943 Julia Foster
1977 Edward Furlong
Died on this Day
1100 King William II
1922 Alexander Graham Bell
2003 Don Estelle
Music
1964 The Kinks supported The Beatles at the Gaumont cinema in Bournemouth, where they were billed as 'new and unkonwn London group' .
2000 Madonna's video 'Music' premiered.
Sport
1983 Sebastian Coe was forced to pull out of the World Athletics Championship because of illnesss .
1990 Steve Davis, the champion snooker player, married Judy Grieg in Bray, near Maidenhead.
People & Showbiz
1984 Charles M Scultz received a commission to publish his new cartoon strip 'Peanuts' starring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and friends, in the Daily Times in Portsmouth, Ohio .
1987 The 50 year old Walt Disney movie 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' was re-released in the US and grossed almost $20 million in its first 2 weeks of release .
General Events
47BC Julius Caesar defeated Pharnaces III of Pontus and said the famous words 'Veni Vidi Vici' .
1889 San Francisco was struck by a mysterious plague of millions of locusts .
1934 Adolf Hitler declared himself Fuehrer after the death of President Hindenberg .
1993 An English farmer was arrested after his illegal collection of World War II shells and grenades exploded .
1998 Robin Cook announced he was leaving his wife to live with his House of Commons secretary with whom he was having an affair .
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