August 2
August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. Events400 BC-AD 1899338 BC - Rise of Macedon: Philip II of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea.216 BC - Punic Wars: In the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal destroys the Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Publius Terentius Varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art.AD 461 - Majorian resigns as Western Roman Emperor; shortly afterwards Libius Severus is declared western Roman emperor by Ricimer1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin to sign the Declaration_of_Independence.1790 - First US Census; records are missing for five states: Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey and Virginia. Destroyed somewhere between that date and 1830. 1798 - Second Coalition: End of the Battle of the Nile between French and British navies; France defeated.1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
1900-19991903 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden uprising.1916 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.1934 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.1943 - PT-109, with future president of the United States Lieutenant John F. Kennedy aboard, sinks.1944 - Beginning of the Treblinka uprising.1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.1950 - The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was published on Yankee Stadium, New York.1955 - Velcro is patented.1964 - North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.1967 - The second Blackwall Tunnel opened in Greenwich, London.1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival1975 - In New Orleans, Louisiana, the Superdome officially opens with an American football game between the New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers. 1976 - An intruder breaks into Priscilla Davis's Mockingbird Lane mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. Priscilla Davis and a friend are injured while Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr are killed. T. Cullen Davis is tried and found innocent of the crime.1980 - Hard rock band AC/DC release Back in Black, their first album with lead singer Brian Johnson and their best-selling1985 - A Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas, killing 137.1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.1997 - Australian ski instructor Stuart Diver is rescued as the sole survivor from the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales, Australia, in which 18 lives were lost.
Births1500-18991533 - Theodor Zwinger, medical scholar (d. 1588)1672 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, savant (d. 1733)1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect, city planner (d. 1825)1788 - Leopold Gmelin, chemist (d. 1853)1815 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack, writer (d. 1894)1834 - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor (d. 1904)1835 - Elisha Gray, American inventor and founder of Western Electric (d. 1901)1854 - Milan I, king of Serbia1865 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)1868 - Constantine I of Greece, king of Greece (d. 1923)1871 - John French Sloan, artist (d. 1951)1892 - Jack Warner, Canadian film producer (d. 1978)1897 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)
1900-19991900 - Helen Morgan, actress (d. 1941)1905 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963) 1905 - Myrna Loy, Academy Award-winning actress (d. 1993) 1905 - Rudolf Prack, actor (d. 1981)1912 - Vladimir Zerjavic, Croat - UN statistician (d. 2001)1914 - Beatrice Straight, Academy Award-winning actress (Network, Poltergeist) (d. 2001)1915 - Gary Merrill, actor (d. 1990)1924 - James Baldwin, author (d. 1987) 1924 - Carroll O'Connor, actor (d. 2001)1932 - Peter O'Toole, actor: Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter1933 - Lorenzo Milam, author, broadcaster1934 - Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut1939 - Wes Craven, horror film director1941 - Doris Coley, singer, member of the Shirelles (d. 2000)1942 - Isabel Allende, author1948 - Dennis Prager - radio talk show host and author1951 - Lance Ito, judge in the O. J. Simpson case1953 - Butch Patrick, actor1957 - Mojo Nixon, rockabilly musician, actor1961 - Linda Fratianne, Olympics figure skater1964 - Mary-Louise Parker, actress1969 - Fernando Couto, football player1970 - Tony Amonte, NHL star, Stan Chudnovsky, engineer, vodka infuser1972 - Kevin Smith, actor, director, screenwriter1977 - Edward Furlong, actor1980 - Nadine O'Hare, Love of My Life beauty1982 - Hélder Postiga, football player1985 - David Bander, actor1992 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg, actress, Pepsi-Cola spokesperson
Deaths400-1899461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassination) (b. 457)1100 - King William II of England (b.c. 1056)1589 - King Henry III of France (b. 1551)1611 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese daimyo and samurai (b. 1562)1859 - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)1876 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
1900-19991921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, inventor (b. 1847)1923 - Warren G. Harding, 29th president of the United States (b. 1865)1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, general and politician (b. 1847)1936 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872)1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, founder of AMORC (b. 1883)1945 - Pietro Mascagni, composer (b. 1863)1976 - Fritz Lang, film director (b. 1890)1976 - Andrea Wilborn, daughter of Priscilla Davis (b. 1964)1976 - Stan Farr, TCU basketball star, boyfriend of Priscilla Davis 1978 - Carlos Chávez, composer1979 - Thurman Munson, Yankees catcher1986 - Roy Cohn, politician, anti-Communist (b. 1927)1988 - Raymond Carver, writer, poet (b. 1938)1990 - Norman Mclean, writer (b. 1902)1997 - William S. Burroughs, writer (b. 1914)1998 - Shari Lewis, puppeteer (b. 1933)
2000-20992003 - Don Estelle, British actor2003 - Mike Levey, famous American infomercial host2004 - Wilhelm Fresenius, German chemist (b. 1913)2004 - Don Tosti, Latin jazz musician (b. 1923)2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)
Holidays and observancesCosta Rica - Our Lady of the AngelsBulgaria/Republic of Macedonia - Ilinden (St. Ilya Day), a day of remembrance of the Ilinden Uprising External links BBC: On This Day
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