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August 2 Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years ), with 151 days remaining.
Events
338 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 Gaius 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 Ricimer
1610 - 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 .1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United_States_Declaration of Independence .1790 - The first US Census is conducted.1798 - Second Coalition : The Battle of the Nile between French and British navies ends with a British victory.1869 - Japan's samurai , farmer , artisan , merchant class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date : June 25, 1869).1870 - Tower Subway , the world's first underground tube railway , opens in London .1903 - 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 the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci Taranto .1918 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I .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 - The "Zigenerblock of the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau is liquidated. The last 3000 Sinti and Roma are murdered by German SS .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 is released in a public event held in Yankee Stadium in New York City .1955 - Velcro is patented.1964 - North Vietnam allegedly fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident .1967 - The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London .1975 - In New Orleans, Louisiana , the Superdome officially opens with an NFL football game between the New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers .1976 - An intruder breaks into Priscilla Davis 's mansion in Fort Worth, Texas and kills Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr .1979 - New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson dies in a plane crash. An avid pilot, he was practicing takeoffs and landings in his new Cessna Citation jet. The official cause of the crash was determined to be pilot error.1980 - A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna , Italy , killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.1985 - 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 .1994 - Popular Japanese television and movie actor Beat Takeshi is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.1997 - Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales , Australia .2005 - Air France Flight 358 skids off the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport outside Toronto , Canada , destroying the plane but resulting in no loss of life.
Births
1533 - Theodor Zwinger , Swiss scholar (d. 1588 )1672 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer , Swiss scholar (d. 1733 )1674 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans , regent of France (d. 1723 )1696 - Mahmud I , Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754 )1703 - Lorenzo Ricci , Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775 )1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant , French-born architect and city planner (d. 1825 )1788 - Leopold Gmelin , German chemist (d. 1853 )1815 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack , German writer (d. 1894 )1834 - Frédéric Bartholdi , French sculptor (d. 1904 )1835 - Elisha Gray , American inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1901 )1854 - Milan I , King of Serbia (d. 1901 )1865 - Irving Babbitt , American literary critic (d. 1933 )1868 - King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923 )1871 - John French Sloan , American artist (d. 1951 )1892 - Jack Warner , Canadian film producer (d. 1978 )1897 - Max Weber , Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974 )1900 - Helen Morgan , American actress (d. 1941 )1905 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann , German composer (d. 1963 )1905 - Myrna Loy , American actress (d. 1993 )
1912 - Vladimir Zerjavic , Croatian statistician (d. 2001 )1914 - Beatrice Straight , American actress (d. 2001 )1915 - Gary Merrill , American actor (d. 1990 )1924 - James Baldwin , American author (d. 1987 )1924 - Carroll O'Connor , American actor (d. 2001 )
1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla , Argentinian dictator1932 - Peter O'Toole , Irish actor1934 - Valery Bykovsky , cosmonaut1937 - Garth Hudson , Canadian musician (The Band )1939 - Wes Craven , American film director1941 - Doris Coley , American singer (Shirelles ) (d. 2000 )1942 - Isabel Allende , American author1944 - Jim Capaldi , British drummer, singer, and songwriter (Traffic ) (d. 2005 )1948 - Dennis Prager , American radio talk show host and author1950 - Lance Ito , American judge1953 - Butch Patrick , American actor1957 - Mojo Nixon , American musician and actor1959 - Apollonia Kotero , American singer and actress1961 - Linda Fratianne , American figure skater1964 - Mary-Louise Parker , American actress1969 - Fernando Couto , Portuguese footballer1969 - Richard Hallebeek , Dutch guitarist1970 - Tony Amonte , American hockey player1970 - Kevin Smith , American actor, director, and screenwriter1974 - Jeremy Castle , American singer and songwriter1975 - Xu Huaiwen , Chinese-born badminton player1977 - Edward Furlong , American actor1982 - Hélder Postiga , Portuguese footballer1985 - Jeff Healy , American model1992 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg , American actress
Deaths
461 - Majorian , Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 457 )686 - Pope John V 1100 - King William II of England 1222 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156 )1511 - Andrew Barton , Scottish naval leader1589 - King Henry III of France (b. 1551 )1611 - Kato Kiyomasa , Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562 )1696 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon , Scottish military commander at the Massacre of Glencoe (b. 1630 )1769 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea , English politician (b. 1689 )1788 - Thomas Gainsborough , English artist (b. 1727 )1815 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune , French marshal (murdered) (b. 1763 )1859 - Horace Mann , American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796 )1876 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok , American gunfighter (b. 1837 )1890 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann , French poet (b. 1813 )1921 - Enrico Caruso , Italian tenor (b. 1873 )1922 - Alexander Graham Bell , Scottish-born inventor (b. 1847 )1923 - Warren G. Harding , 29th President of the United States (b. 1865 )1934 - Paul von Hindenburg , German general and politician (b. 1847 )1936 - Louis Blériot , French aviation pioneer (b. 1872 )1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis , American Rosacrucian mystic (b. 1883 )1945 - Pietro Mascagni , Italian composer (b. 1863 )1976 - Fritz Lang , Austrian film director (b. 1890 )1978 - Carlos Chávez , Mexican composer (b. 1899 )1979 - Thurman Munson , baseball player (b. 1947 )1986 - Roy Cohn , American politician (b. 1927 )1988 - Raymond Carver , American writer (b. 1938 )1990 - Norman Mclean , American writer (b. 1902 )1997 - William S. Burroughs , American writer (b. 1914 )1998 - Shari Lewis , American puppeteer (b. 1933 )2003 - Don Estelle , British actor (b. 1933 )2003 - Mike Levey , American television personality (b. 1948 )
2004 - Don Tosti , musician (b. 1923 )
Holidays and observances
External links
August 1 - August 3 - July 2 - September 2 -- listing of all days
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