
August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ==Events== *338 BC - History of Ancient Greece#The_Rise_of_Macedon: Philip II of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes (Greece) in the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC). *216 BC - Punic Wars: In the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal destroys the Roman Republic 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 Empire emperor by Ricimer *1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin to sign the United_States_Declaration of Independence. *1790 - First US Census; records are missing for five states: Delaware, Georgia (U.S. state), Kentucky, New Jersey and Virginia. Destroyed somewhere between that date and 1830. *1798 - Second Coalition: End of the Battle of the Nile between France and Kingdom of Great Britain navies; France defeated. *1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first metro, opens in London. *1903 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians against Ottoman Empire 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 extermination camp 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 Festival *1975 - 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-selling *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. *1997 - Australia 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. ==Births== *1533 - 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 Serbia of Serbia *1865 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933) *1868 - Constantine I of Greece, King of Greece of Greece (d. 1923) *1871 - John French Sloan, artist (d. 1951) *1892 - Jack Warner, Canadian film producer (d. 1978) *1897 - Max Weber (politician), Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974) *1900 - 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 (movie)'', ''Poltergeist movie series'') (d. 2001) *1915 - Gary Merrill, actor (d. 1990) *1924 - James Baldwin (writer), author (d. 1987) * 1924 - Carroll O'Connor, actor (d. 2001) *1932 - Peter O'Toole, actor: ''Lawrence of Arabia (film)'', ''The Lion in Winter'' *1933 - Lorenzo Milam, author, broadcaster *1934 - Valery Bykovsky, astronaut *1937 - Garth Hudson, Canadian musician, organist/keyboardist with The Band *1939 - Wes Craven, horror film film director *1941 - Doris Coley, singer, member of the Shirelles (d. 2000) *1942 - Isabel Allende, author *1944 - Jim Capaldi, British musician, drummer with Traffic, singer/songwriter (d. January 28, 2005) *1948 - Dennis Prager - radio talk show host and author *1951 - Lance Ito, judge in the O. J. Simpson case *1953 - Butch Patrick, actor *1957 - Mojo Nixon, rockabilly musician, actor *1961 - Linda Fratianne, Olympic Games figure skating *1964 - Mary-Louise Parker, actress *1969 - Fernando Couto, soccer player *1970 - Tony Amonte, National Hockey League star, *1974 - Jeremy Castle, Oklahoma country music singer and songwriter. *1972 - Kevin Smith, actor, film director, screenwriter *1977 - Edward Furlong, actor *1982 - Hélder Postiga, Portuguese soccer player *1992 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg, actress, Pepsi-Cola spokesperson ==Deaths== *461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 457) *686 - Pope John V *1100 - King William II of England (b.c. 1056) *1589 - King Henry III of France (b. 1551) *1611 - Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese daimyo and samurai (b. 1562) *1788 - Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (b. 1727) *1859 - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796) *1876 - Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837) *1921 - 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, German general and politician (b. 1847) *1936 - Louis Bleriot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872) *1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, founder of AMORC (b. 1883) *1945 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863) *1976 - Fritz Lang, film director (b. 1890) *1976 - Stan Farr, basketball player * 1978 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer *1979 - Thurman Munson, baseball player *1986 - Roy Cohn, American politician and 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) *2003 - Don Estelle, British actor *2003 - Mike Levey, American television personality *2004 - Wilhelm Fresenius, German chemist (b. 1913) *2004 - Don Tosti, musician (b. 1923) ==Holidays and observances== *Costa Rica - Our Lady of the Angels *Bulgaria/Republic of Macedonia - Ilinden (St. Ilya Day), a day of remembrance of the Ilinden Uprising == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/2 BBC: On This Day] ---- August 1 - August 3 - July 2 - September 2 -- historical anniversaries
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August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ==Events== *338 BC - History of Ancient Greece#The_Rise_of_Macedon: Philip II of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes (Greece) in the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC). *216 BC - Punic Wars: In the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal destroys the Roman Republic 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 Empire emperor by Ricimer *1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin to sign the United_States_Declaration of Independence. *1790 - First US Census; records are missing for five states: Delaware, Georgia (U.S. state), Kentucky, New Jersey and Virginia. Destroyed somewhere between that date and 1830. *1798 - Second Coalition: End of the Battle of the Nile between France and Kingdom of Great Britain navies; France defeated. *1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first metro, opens in London. *1903 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians against Ottoman Empire 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 extermination camp 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 Festival *1975 - 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-selling *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. *1997 - Australia 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. ==Births== *1533 - 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 Serbia of Serbia *1865 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933) *1868 - Constantine I of Greece, King of Greece of Greece (d. 1923) *1871 - John French Sloan, artist (d. 1951) *1892 - Jack Warner, Canadian film producer (d. 1978) *1897 - Max Weber (politician), Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974) *1900 - 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 (movie)'', ''Poltergeist movie series'') (d. 2001) *1915 - Gary Merrill, actor (d. 1990) *1924 - James Baldwin (writer), author (d. 1987) * 1924 - Carroll O'Connor, actor (d. 2001) *1932 - Peter O'Toole, actor: ''Lawrence of Arabia (film)'', ''The Lion in Winter'' *1933 - Lorenzo Milam, author, broadcaster *1934 - Valery Bykovsky, astronaut *1937 - Garth Hudson, Canadian musician, organist/keyboardist with The Band *1939 - Wes Craven, horror film film director *1941 - Doris Coley, singer, member of the Shirelles (d. 2000) *1942 - Isabel Allende, author *1944 - Jim Capaldi, British musician, drummer with Traffic, singer/songwriter (d. 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Simpson case *1953 - Butch Patrick, actor *1957 - Mojo Nixon, rockabilly musician, actor *1961 - Linda Fratianne, Olympic Games figure skating *1964 - Mary-Louise Parker, actress *1969 - Fernando Couto, soccer player *1970 - Tony Amonte, National Hockey League star, *1974 - Jeremy Castle, Oklahoma country music singer and songwriter. *1972 - Kevin Smith, actor, film director, screenwriter *1977 - Edward Furlong, actor *1982 - Hélder Postiga, Portuguese soccer player *1992 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg, actress, Pepsi-Cola spokesperson ==Deaths== *461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 457) *686 - Pope John V *1100 - King William II of England (b.c. 1056) *1589 - King Henry III of France (b. 1551) *1611 - Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese daimyo and samurai (b. 1562) *1788 - Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (b. 1727) *1859 - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796) *1876 - Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837) *1921 - 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, German general and politician (b. 1847) *1936 - Louis Bleriot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872) *1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, founder of AMORC (b. 1883) *1945 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863) *1976 - Fritz Lang, film director (b. 1890) *1976 - Stan Farr, basketball player * 1978 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer *1979 - Thurman Munson, baseball player *1986 - Roy Cohn, American politician and 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) *2003 - Don Estelle, British actor *2003 - Mike Levey, American television personality *2004 - Wilhelm Fresenius, German chemist (b. 1913) *2004 - Don Tosti, musician (b. 1923) ==Holidays and observances== *Costa Rica - Our Lady of the Angels *Bulgaria/Republic of Macedonia - Ilinden (St. Ilya Day), a day of remembrance of the Ilinden Uprising == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/2 BBC: On This Day] ---- August 1 - August 3 - July 2 - September 2 -- historical anniversaries
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