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What Happened on August 2nd This Day in History

Year	Name
2014	At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.
2005	Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.
1999	The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
1990	Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
1989	Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
1989	A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
1985	Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
1982	The Helsinki Metro, the first rapid transit system of Finland, is opened to the general public.[4]
1980	A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
1973	A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
1968	An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
1947	A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
1945	World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.
1944	ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in North Macedonia.
1944	World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
1943	The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
1943	World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.
1939	Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1937	The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
1934	Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
1932	The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
1923	Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
1922	A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing more than 50,000 people.
1918	The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
1916	World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
1914	The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
1903	The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1897	Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
1873	The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
1870	Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
1869	Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
1858	The Government of India Act 1858 replaces Company rule in India with that of the British Raj.
1830	Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
1798	French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
1790	The first United States Census is conducted.
1776	The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
1610	During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay.
1415	Thomas Grey is executed for participating in the Southampton Plot.
1377	Russian troops are defeated by forces of the Blue Horde Khan Arapsha in the Battle on Pyana River.
1343	After the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson sells her estates and raises a force of men with which to attack French shipping and ports.
1274	Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.
932	After a two-year siege, the city of Toledo, in Spain, surrenders to the forces of the Caliph of Córdoba Abd al-Rahman III, assuming an important victory in his campaign to subjugate the Central March.
461	Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.
338	A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
216	The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.
49	Caesar, who marched to Spain earlier in the year leaving Marcus Antonius in charge of Italy, defeats Pompey's general Afranius and Petreius in Ilerda (Lerida) north of the Ebro river.

Famous People Born on August 2

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Year	Name
1951	Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2011)
1931	Pierre DuMaine, American bishop and academic (d. 2019)
1920	Augustus Rowe, Canadian physician and politician (d. 2013)
1976	Reyes Estévez, Spanish runner
1922	Geoffrey Dutton, Australian historian and author (d. 1998)
1951	Joe Lynn Turner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1996	Keston Hiura, American baseball player
1672	Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar (d. 1733)
1915	Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990)
1941	Doris Coley, American singer (d. 2000)

Famous People Deaths On August 2

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Date	Name
1921	Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor and actor (b. 1873)
1451	Elizabeth of Görlitz (b. 1390)
1415	Thomas Grey, English conspirator (b. 1384)
1981	Kieran Doherty, Irish hunger striker and politician (b. 1955)
1972	Brian Cole, American bass player (b. 1942)
1917	Jaan Mahlapuu, Estonian military pilot (b. 1894)
575	Ahudemmeh, Syriac Orthodox Grand Metropolitan of the East.
1986	Roy Cohn, American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
1799	Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1745)
2022	Vin Scully, American sportscaster and game show host (b. 1927)