August 2

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

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

338 BC - Philip of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea.
216 BC - 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 - End of the Battle of the Nile between French and British navies.
1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway opens in London
1903 - Unsuccessful uprising of Balkan people against Turkey.
1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
1945 - Potsdam Conference 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 (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 Stgraight, 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
1969 - Fernando Couto, football player
1970 - Tony Amonte, NHL star
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)
1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, general and politician (b. 1847)
1936 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 187)
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)

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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