When I Was Buying You a Drink Where Were You ?: 40th year

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40th year - N° 214 Saturday, 2 August 2025

2 August / Today's 27 Events:

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191 years ago

Saturday 2nd of August 1834

Sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi known for sculpting the Statue of Liberty is born in Colmar, Alsace, France.

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150 years ago

Monday 2nd of August 1875

Lawman, gunfighter and gambler Bill James Butler Hickok, originally Wild Bill Hickok is shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall aka Crooked Nose Jack at the age of 38 in Nuttal & Mann's Saloon, 624 Main Street, Deadwood, South Dakota, United States.

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128 years ago

Monday 2nd of August 1897

SS Standartenführer Karl-Otto Koch known for becoming the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen is born in Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany.

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104 years ago

Tuesday 2nd of August 1921

Tenor Enrico Caruso dies of peritonitis arising from a burst subrenal abscess at the age of 48 in Vesuvio Hotel, Via Partenope 45, Napoli, Campania, Italy.

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103 years ago

Wednesday 2nd of August 1922

Scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator Alexander Graham Bell dies of diabetes at the age of 75 in Beinn Bhreagh, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Upon the conclusion of Bell's funeral, "every phone on the continent of North America was silenced in honor of the man who had given to mankind the means for direct communication at a distance".

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102 years ago

Thursday 2nd of August 1923

29th President of the United States Warren Gamaliel Harding dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in San Francisco, California, United States.

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101 years ago

Saturday 2nd of August 1924

Writer, poet and activist James Arthur Baldwin is born in Harlem, New York, New York, United States.

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93 years ago

Tuesday 2nd of August 1932

Actor Peter Seamus O'Toole is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Some sources give O'Toole's birthplace as Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.

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91 years ago

Thursday 2nd of August 1934

Generalfeldmarschall and politician Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff von Hindenburg dies of lung cancer at the age of 87 in Neudeck, Ostpreußen, Germany.

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86 years ago

Wednesday 2nd of August 1939

Horror film director Wes Wesley Earl Craven known for inventing the ‘slasher’ film genre is born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

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80 years ago

Thursday 2nd of August 1945

Victim of Richard Speck aka Born To Raise Hell Pamela Wilkening is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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63 years ago

Thursday 2nd of August 1962

Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal Edward Eddie Smith aka The Sheik is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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51 years ago

Friday 2nd of August 1974

Carol L. Platt Valenzuela is strangled by serial killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness in Vancouver, Washington, United States.

Valenzuela's remains were discovered two months later in a shallow grave south of Olympia along with those of 17-year-old Martha Morrison.

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49 years ago

Monday 2nd of August 1976

Film director Fritz Friedrich Christian Anton Lang dies of a stroke at the age of 86 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

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45 years ago

Saturday 2nd of August 1980

85 die in railway station bomb attack in Bologna Centrale, Piazza delle Medaglie d'Oro, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Several members of the neo-fascist terrorist organization Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari were sentenced for the bombing although the group denied involvement.

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44 years ago

Sunday 2nd of August 1981

Irish republican hunger striker Kieran Doherty, originally Ciaran O Dochartaigh dies after 73 days of hungerstriking at the age of 26 in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Doherty was the eighth and longest hungerstriker to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.

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44 years ago He Had Been Kept Alive for 54 Hours

Sunday 2nd of August 1981

Tour bus driver Willibrordus A. Meuffels known for becoming the first man to live with an artificial heart dies of kidney failure, lung problems and infection at the age of 36 in St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States.

Meuffels had been kept alive for 54 hours by an artificial heart implant and then for a week on a transplanted human heart.

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41 years ago

Thursday 2nd of August 1984

Natalya Golosovskaya is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Park of Aviators, Rostov, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

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40 years ago

Friday 2nd of August 1985

137 die in Delta Air Lines Flight 191 Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crash and disintegration in Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Dallas, Texas, United States.

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39 years ago

Saturday 2nd of August 1986

32-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Eva Sybille Haule-Frimpong is arrested in an ice-cream parlour in Rüsselsheim, Hessen, Germany.

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31 years ago

Tuesday 2nd of August 1994

Murderer Robert Nelson Drew is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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28 years ago

Saturday 2nd of August 1997

Serial killer Andonis Daglis aka The Athens Ripper commits suicide hanging at the age of 23 in Athens, Attica, Greece.

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28 years ago

Saturday 2nd of August 1997

Writer, painter and spoken word performer William Seward Burroughs dies of a heart attack at the age of 83 in Lawrence, Kansas, United States.

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19 years ago

Wednesday 2nd of August 2006

Fashion model Luisel Ramos dies of heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa at the age of 22 in Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Ramos died of heart failure while participating in a fashion show during Fashion Week.