On this day in movie history - Signs (2002):

Signs,

directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan,

was released in the United States on August 2, 2002.
Music by James Newton Howard.

Cast:
Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin, Cherry Jones, M. Night Shyamalan, Patricia Kalember, Ted Sutton, Merritt Wever, Lanny Flaherty, Marion McCorry, Michael Showalter, Kevin Pires, Clifford David, Rhonda Overby, Greg Wood, Paul L. Nolan, Ukee Washington, Babita Hariani, Adam Way, Angela Eckert, Jose L. Rodriguez, Paul Wilson, Thomas Griffin, Mark Falvo, Derek Mears, Chuck Pressler, Samantha Steffen.

On this day in music history - Diesel and Dust, by Midnight Oil (1987):

The album Diesel and Dust,

by Midnight Oil,

was released on August 2, 1987.

On this day in movie history - In the Heat of the Night (1967):

In the Heat of the Night,

directed by Norman Jewison,

written by Stirling Silliphant,

based on the novel by John Ball,

was released in the United States on August 2, 1967.
Music by Quincy Jones.
Theme song In the Heat of the Night written by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman.
Sung by Ray Charles.

Cast:
Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates, James Patterson, William Schallert, Beah Richards, Peter Whitney, Kermit Murdock, Larry D. Mann, Matt Clark, Arthur Malet, Fred Stewart, Quentin Dean, Scott Wilson, Timothy Scott, William C. Watson, Eldon Quick, Stuart Nisbet, Khalil Bezaleel, Peter Masterson, Jester Hairston, Phil Adams, Nikita Knatz, Sam Reese, Anthony James, Clegg Hoyt, Alan Oppenheimer, Buzz Barton.

On this day in movie history - Black Angel (1946):

Black Angel,

directed by Roy William Neill,

written by Roy Chanslor,

based on the novel The Black Angel by Cornell Woolrich,

was released in the United States on August 2, 1946.
Music by Frank Skinner.

Cast:
Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford, Constance Dowling, Wallace Ford, Hobart Cavanaugh, Freddie Steele, John Phillips, Ben Bard, Junius Matthews, Marion Martin, Archie Twitchell, Maurice St. Clair, Vilova, Robert Williams.

Born on this day – Wes Craven:

Wes Craven

Director

Writer

Producer

Actor

Editor

August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015

Born on this day – Peter O'Toole:

Peter O'Toole

Actor

August 2, 1932 – December 14, 2013

Born on this day – Charles Einstein:

Charles Einstein

Writer

August 2, 1926 – March 7, 2007

Born on this day – Carroll O'Connor:

Carroll O'Connor

Actor

Producer

Director

August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001

Born on this day – Carlo Savina:

Carlo Savina

Composer

August 2, 1919 – June 23, 2002

Born on this day – Gary Merrill:

Gary Merrill

Actor

August 2, 1915 – March 5, 1990

Born on this day – Beatrice Straight:

Beatrice Straight

Actress

August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001

Born on this day – Ann Dvorak:

Ann Dvorak

Actress

August 2, 1911 – December 10, 1979

Born on this day – Truus van Aalten:

Truus van Aalten

Actress

August 2, 1910 – June 27, 1999

Born on this day – Myrna Loy:

Myrna Loy

Actress

August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993

Credits:

1925 Studio Tour (1925); 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 20th Century Fox Promotional Film (1936); 72nd Annual Academy Awards Pre-Show (2000); A Connecticut Yankee (1931); A Girl in Every Port (1928); A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927); ABC Late Night (1974); Across the Pacific (1926); AFI Life Achievement Award (1976); After the Thin Man (1936); Airport 1975 (1974); American Experience (1996); American Masters (2009); Another Romance of Celluloid (1938); Another Thin Man (1939); Ants! (1977); Arena (1991); Arrowsmith (1931); Belles on Their Toes (1952); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Beware of Married Men (1927); Biography (1995–1998); Bitter Apples (1927); Body and Soul (1931); Bride of the Regiment (1930); Broadway Bill (1934); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); California's Golden Parks (2007); Cameo Kirby (1930); CBS Mornings (1988); Celebrity Talent Scouts (1960); Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); Cock o' the Walk (1930); Columbo (1972); Complicated Women (2003); Consolation Marriage (1931); Day at Night (1973); Death Takes a Holiday (1971); Die Stimme Österreichs (1949); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971); Don Juan (1926); Double Wedding (1937); Emma (1932); Entertainment Tonight (1993); Evelyn Prentice (1934); Evidence (1929); Exquisite Sinner (1926); Family Affair (1967); Fancy Baggage (1929); Fashion News (1930); Finger Prints (1927); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); From the Terrace (1960); Gala Adlai on Broadway (1960); General Electric Theater (1955–1957); Great Performances (1987); Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927); Hardboiled Rose (1929); Henry Fonda and the Making of 'Summer Solstice' (1981); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood My Home Town (1965); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998); Hush Money (1931); I Love You Again (1940); If I Were Single (1927); If This Be Sin (1949); Indict and Convict (1974); Inside Daisy Clover (1965); Ironside (1973); Isle of Escape (1930); I've Got a Secret (1960); Just Tell Me What You Want (1980); Kilo tissa wa tissaine (1955); Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016); Libeled Lady (1936); Lonelyhearts (1958); Love Crazy (1941); Love Me Tonight (1932); Love, Sidney (1982); Lucky Night (1939); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Man-Proof (1938); Meet Me in St. Louis (1959); Men in White (1934); MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992); Midnight Lace (1960); Moonlighting (1987); Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948); Myrna Loy Remembered (1993); Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (1990); New Morals for Old (1932); Night Flight (1933); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Noah's Ark (1928); Northward, Ho! (1940); Omnibus (1969); Parnell (1937); Pay as You Enter (1928); Penthouse (1933); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1957); Petticoat Fever (1936); Philbin's People (1970); Pretty Ladies (1925); Rebound (1931); Remember Me (1978); Renegades (1930); Robert Capa: The Man Who Believed His Own Legend (2004); Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930); Scarlet River (1933); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Screen Goddesses (2006); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (1955); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); Show of Shows (1929); Show-Business at War (1943); Simple Sis (1927); Skyline (1931); So Goes My Love (1946); So This Is Paris (1926); Some of the Greatest (1955); Song of the Thin Man (1947); Sporting Life (1925); Stamboul Quest (1934); Stars of the Silver Screen (2011); State Street Sadie (1928); Test Pilot (1938); Thalath Nessa (1968); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 32nd Annual New York Film Critics Circle Awards (1967); The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (1970); The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991); The 66th Annual Academy Awards (1994); The Ambassador's Daughter (1956); The Animal Kingdom (1932); The Annual Waldorf Gala Salute to Myrna Loy (1985); The April Fools (1969); The Arlene Francis Show (1957); The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947); The Bad Man (1930); The Barbarian (1933); The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Black Watch (1929); The Bob Braun Show (1978); The Bushido Blade / Summer Solstice (1981); The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention (1937); The Caveman (1926); The Climbers (1927); The Couple Takes a Wife (1972); The Crimson City (1928); The David Frost Show (1969); The Desert Song (1929); The Devil to Pay! (1930); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Dick Cavett Show (1980); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1970); The Elevator (1974); The End (1978); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Billy Wilder (1982); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (1975); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The George Gobel Show (1959); The Gilded Highway (1926); The Girl from Chicago (1927); The Great Divide (1929); The Great Ziegfeld (1936); The Heart of Maryland (1927); The Jazz Cinderella (1930); The Jazz Singer (1927); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1998); The Last of the Duanes (1930); The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961); The Legends of the Screen (1982); The Linkletter Show (1967); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Love Toy (1926); The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932); The Merv Griffin Show (1965–1980); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951); The Midnight Taxi (1928); The Mike Douglas Show (1971–1980); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Movie Game (1972); The Movies (2019); The Naughty Flirt (1930); The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933); The Rains Came (1939); The Red Pony (1949); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Romance of Celluloid (1937); The Sam Levenson Show (1959); The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947); The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986); The Squall (1929); The Thin Man (1934); The Thin Man Goes Home (1944); The Third Degree (1926); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1961); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1967); The Truth About Youth (1930); The Virginian (1967); The Voice of Hollywood No. 8 (1930); The Wanderer (1925); The Wet Parade (1932); The Woman in Room 13 (1932); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Third Finger, Left Hand (1940); Thirteen Women (1932); This Is Your Life (1956); Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008); To Mary - with Love (1936); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1980); Too Hot to Handle (1938); Topaze (1933); Transatlantic (1931); Trifles of Importance (1940); Turn Back the Hours (1928); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Twenty Years After (1944); Under a Texas Moon (1930); Vanity Fair (1932); Verdensberømtheder i København (1939); What Price Beauty? (1925); What's My Line? (1960); When a Man Loves (1927); When Ladies Meet (1933); Whipsaw (1935); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Why Girls Go Back Home (1926); Wife vs. Secretary (1936); William Powell: A True Gentleman (2005); Wings in the Dark (1935).

Born on this day – Cecil Cunningham:

Cecil Cunningham

Actress

Singer

Comedienne

August 2, 1888 – April 17, 1959

Credits:

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940); Above Suspicion (1943); AFI Life Achievement Award (1980); Anybody's Woman (1930); Are Husbands Necessary? (1942); Artist and Models (1937); Back Street (1941); Blond Cheat (1938); Blonde Venus (1932); Blossoms in the Dust (1941); Bottoms Up (1934); Cairo (1942); College Swing (1938); Come and Get It (1936); Complicated Women (2003); Cowboy Serenade (1942); Daughter of Shanghai (1937); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943); Four Men and a Prayer (1938); Four Star Playhouse (1952); From Hell to Heaven (1933); Girls' School (1938); Hurry, Charlie, Hurry (1941); I Married an Angel (1942); If I Had a Million (1932); In Old Oklahoma (1943); Is My Face Red? (1932); It's a Wonderful World (1939); It's Tough to Be Famous (1932); Joyful Hour (1960); Just a Pain in the Parlor (1932); Kentucky Moonshine (1938); King of Gamblers (1937); Kitty Foyle (1940); Ladies They Talk About (1933); Lady of the Tropics (1939); Laugh It Off (1939); Lillian Russell (1940); Love Is a Racket (1932); Love Me Tonight (1932); Manhattan Love Song (1934); Marie Antoinette (1938); Mata Hari (1931); Monkey Business (1931); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936); My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942); My Reputation (1946); Never the Twins Shall Meet (1932); New Moon (1940); Night Club Scandal (1937); Paramount on Parade (1930); People Will Talk (1935); Play Girl (1941); Playboy of Paris (1930); Repent at Leisure (1941); Return of the Terror (1934); Safe in Hell (1931); Scandal Street (1938); Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931); Swing High, Swing Low (1937); Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941); The Affairs of Martha (1942); The Age for Love (1931); The Awful Truth (1937); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Bride Goes Wild (1948); The Candid Camera (1932); The Captain Is a Lady (1940); The Druggist's Dilemma (1933); The Family Next Door (1939); The Feminine Touch (1941); The Hidden Hand (1942); The Impatient Maiden (1932); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); The Rich Are Always with Us (1932); The Wet Parade (1932); The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942); Their Own Desire (1929); This Way Please (1937); Those We Love (1932); Trouble from Abroad (1931); Twin Beds (1942); We Live Again (1934); Winter Carnival (1939); Wives Under Suspicion (1938); Wonder Man (1945); You and Me (1938).

James Thurber, on how to read:

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

- James Thurber.