Monday 2 August 2010

On This Day - 2nd August


1905 - Myrna Loy born
1924 - Carroll O'Connor born
1924 - James Baldwin born
1932 - Peter O'Toole born
1950 - Judge Lance Ito born
1959 - Victoria Jackson born
1965 - Thousands of British holiday makers abandon their tents as forest fires devastate the south of France
1973 - More than 30 people die in a fire which gutted the Summerland leisure resort on the Isle of Man.
1974 - Jeremy Castle born
1977 - Edward Furlong born
1980 - A huge bomb devastates Bologna railway station, killing at least 75 people.
1990 - More than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers backed up by 700 tanks invade the Gulf state of Kuwait in the early hours of the morning.

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