Happy Birthday OC, may all your dreams come true.
On 2nd August:
1990
Iraq invades Middle East neighbours Kuwait and takes control of the country in eight hours. The Kuwaiti royal family flees to Saudi Arabia.
1989
Trade restrictions between Britain and Argentina are lifted for the first time since the Falklands War.
1980
Right-wing terrorists explode a bomb at Bologna Railway Station in northern Italy which kills 84 people and injures another 100.
1974
John Dean, American lawyer and member of staff at the White House, is sent to a jail for his part in covering up the Watergate break-in.
1973
In Britain, more than 40 people are killed when fire sweeps through the Summerland Amusement Centre at Douglas on the Isle of Man.
1945
World War II: The end of the Potsdam Conference at which the Allied leaders decided on the post-war treatment of Germany and called for the unconditional surrender of Japan.
1939
Scientist Albert Einstein, concerned that German scients are working on powerful uranium bombs, writes to US President Roosevelt urging him to start research into building an atomic bomb.
1935
Britain passes the Government of India Act - separating Burma and Aden from India.
1923
Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th US President following the sudden death of Warren Harding after his return from a trip to Alaska.
1876
James Butler - US Marshall Wild Bill Hickok - is shot dead by Jack McCall while playing poker in a saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota. His poker hand - two black aces, two black eights and the jack of diamonds - becomes known as 'the dead man's hand'.
1875
Britain's first roller-skating rink opens in Belgravia, London.
1865
Publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It is soon withdrawn because of bad printing. Only 21 copies of the first edition survive, making it one of the rarest 19th century books.
1802
In France, Napoleon Bonaparte is declared 'Consul For Life' .
1784
The first specially-built Royal Mail coach begins its' scheduled service from Bristol to London.
1589
Henry III of France is assassinated by Jacques Clement.
1100
William II of England, son of William the Conqueror, is killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest, Hampshire - allegedly mistaken for a deer.
1942
English actress Julia Foster.
1932
Irish actor Peter O'Toole born in Connemara
1905
American actress Myrna Loy
1892
American film executive Jack Warner - co founder of Warner Brothers Pictures.
1835
US inventor Elisha Gray. Founder of the Western Electric Company - loses legal battle with Alexander Graham Bell over who owns the patent to inventing the telephone.
1754
French engineer and architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant.
1997
American writer William S Burroughs aged 83.
1944
Joseph Kennedy Jr, navy pilot and brother of future US President
1936
French aviator Louis Bleriot.
1923
29th US President Warren Harding (1921-1923) dies in San Francisco
1922
Scottish-born US inventor Alexander Graham Bell, aged 75
1921
Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, aged 48, dies in Naples.
1876
James Butler - US Marshall Wild Bill Hickok
1783
English portrait and landscape artist Thomas Gainsborough.
1100
William II of England is killed by an arrow while out hunting in the New Forest, Hampshire - allegedly mistaken for a deer.
Thanks for all you do for us.
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