August 2

August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

Events

338 BC - Rise of Macedon: Philip 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 Paulus and Publius Terentius Varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art.
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.
1903 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of Balkan people against Ottoman Turkey.
1934 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
1955 - Velcro patented.
1967 - Second Blackwall Tunnel opened in Greenwich, London
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.
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 - 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.

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)
1854 - Milan I, king of Serbia
1868 - Constantine I of Greece, king of Greece (d. 1923)
1871 - John Sloan, artist (d. 1951)
1892 - Jack Warner, film producer (d. 1978
1897 - Max Weber, 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, Croatian - UN statistician (d. 2001)
1914 - Beatrice Straight, Academy Award-winning actress (d. 2001)
1915 - Gary Merrill, actor (d. 1990)
1924 - Carroll O'Connor, actor (d. 2001)
1924 - James Baldwin, author (d. 1987)
1932 - Peter O'Toole, actor: Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter
1934 - Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut
1939 - Wes Craven, horror film director
1942 - Isabel Allende, author
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, Olympics figure skater
1964 - Mary-Louise Parker, actress
1969 - Fernando Couto, football player
1970 - Tony Amonte, NHL star, Stan Chudnovsky, engineer, vodka infuser
1972 - Kevin Smith, actor, director, screenwriter
1977 - Edward Furlong, actor
1982 - Hélder Postiga, football player
1992 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg, actress, Pepsi-Cola spokesperson

Deaths

461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassination) (b. 457)
1100 - King William II of England (b.c. 1056)
1921 - Enrico Caruso, opera singer (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, composer
1979 - Thurman Munson, Yankees catcher
1986 - Roy Cohn, politician, anti-Communist (b. 1927)
1990 - Norman Mclean, writer (b. 1902)
1997 - William S. Burroughs, writer (b. 1914)
1998 - Shari Lewis, puppeteer (b. 1933)
2004 - Wilhelm Fresenius, German chemist (b. 1913)

Holidays and observances

Costa Rica - Our Lady of the Angels
Macedonia - Ilinden (St. Ilya Day), a day of remembrance of the uprising

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