August 2 Events |
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August 2nd, 1990 (August 02 1990) | Event | Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces in the Gulf War. | |
August 2nd, 1985 (August 02 1985) | Event | Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137. | |
August 2nd, 1980 (August 02 1980) | Event | A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200. | |
August 2nd, 1973 (August 02 1973) | Event | A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man. | |
August 2nd, 1968 (August 02 1968) | Event | The 1968 Casiguran Earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261. | |
August 2nd, 1967 (August 02 1967) | Event | The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London. | |
August 2nd, 1965 (August 02 1965) | Event | French Riviera fires: At least 7,000 people, mostly holidaymakers, evacuate to a local beach as fires swept the hills between the Provence resorts of Hyeres and St Tropez. | |
August 2nd, 1964 (August 02 1964) | Event | Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin IncidentNorth Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fires on U.S. destroyers, USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy. | |
August 2nd, 1945 (August 02 1945) | Event | World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes. | |
August 2nd, 1943 (August 02 1943) | Event | Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka. | |
August 2nd, 1943 (August 02 1943) | Event | World War II: PT-109 rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future US President, saves all but two of his crew. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
August 2nd, 1939 (August 02 1939) | Event | Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon. | Leo Szilard Quotes |
August 2nd, 1937 (August 02 1937) | Event | The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal. | |
August 2nd, 1934 (August 02 1934) | Event | Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
August 2nd, 1932 (August 02 1932) | Event | The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson. | |
August 2nd, 1931 (August 02 1931) | Event | Einstein urges all scientists to refuse military work. | |
August 2nd, 1918 (August 02 1918) | Event | Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I. | |
August 2nd, 1916 (August 02 1916) | Event | World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto. | |
August 2nd, 1903 (August 02 1903) | Event | Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. | |
August 2nd, 1870 (August 02 1870) | Event | Tower Subway, the world s first underground tube railway, opens in London. | |
August 2nd, 1869 (August 02 1869) | Event | Japan s samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinokosho) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869). | Osho Quotes |
August 2nd, 1798 (August 02 1798) | Event | French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) concludes in a British victory | |
August 2nd, 1790 (August 02 1790) | Event | The first US Census is conducted. | |
August 2nd, 1776 (August 02 1776) | Event | Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United States Declaration of Independence. | |
August 2nd, 1610 (August 02 1610) | Event | Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean. | |
August 2nd, 0338 (August 02 0338) | Event | A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean. | |
August 2nd, 0216 (August 02 0216) | Event | Second Punic War: Battle of CannaeThe Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. | |