Historical Events on August 2, Special Events on This Day
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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
Here is a random list who born on August 2. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1999 | Mark Lee, Korean-Canadian singer |
| 1976 | Michael Weiss, American figure skater |
| 1964 | Frank Biela, German race car driver |
| 1990 | Vitalia Diatchenko, Russian tennis player |
| 1940 | Will Tura, Belgian singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1975 | Tamás Molnár, Hungarian water polo player |
| 1960 | Neal Morse, American singer and keyboard player |
| 1887 | Oskar Anderson, Bulgarian-German mathematician and statistician (d. 1960) |
| 1966 | Tim Wakefield, American baseball player and sportscaster |
| 1941 | François Weyergans, Belgian director and screenwriter (d. 2022) |
Famous People Deaths On August 2
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on August 2. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 2011 | José Sanchis Grau, Spanish author and illustrator (b. 1932) |
| 1903 | Eduard Magnus Jakobson, Estonian missionary and engraver (b. 1847) |
| 1997 | William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1914) |
| 1913 | Ferenc Pfaff, Hungarian architect and academic, designed Zagreb Central Station (b. 1851) |
| 1974 | Douglas Hawkes, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1893) |
| 1876 | "Wild Bill" Hickok, American sheriff (b. 1837) |
| 2014 | Ed Joyce, American journalist (b. 1932) |
| 1915 | John Downer, Australian politician, 16th premier of South Australia (b. 1843) |
| 1100 | William II of England (b. 1056) |
| 257 | Pope Stephen I |
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