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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 - 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.
* 1861 - First income tax imposed in the US.
* 1903 - Unsuccessful uprising of Balkan people against Turkey.
* 1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes FŸhrer of Germany.
* 1945 - Potsdam Conference concludes.
* 1955 - Velcro patented.
* 1975 - In New Orleans, Louisiana, the Superdome officially opens with
an American football game between the New Orleans Saints and Houston
Oilers.
* 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
* 1672 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, savant (+ 1733)
* 1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect, city planner (+ 1825)
* 1788 - Leopold Gmelin, chemist (+ 1853)
* 1815 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack, writer (+ 1894)
* 1854 - Milan I, king of Serbia
* 1868 - Constantine I of Greece, king of Greece (+ 1923)
* 1871 - John Sloan, artist (+ 1951)
* 1892 - Jack Warner, film producer (+ 1978
* 1900 - Helen Morgan, actress (+ 1941)
* 1905 - Myrna Loy, Academy Award winning actress (+ 1993)
* 1905 - Rudolf Prack, actor (+ 1981)
* 1914 - Beatrice Stgraight, Academy Award winning actress (+ 2001)
* 1915 - Gary Merrill, actor (+ 1990)
* 1924 - Carroll O'Connor, actor (+ 2001)
* 1924 - James Baldwin, author (+ 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
* 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
* 1972 - Kevin Smith, actor, director, screenwriter
* 1977 - Edward Furlong, actor
* 1992 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg, actress, Pepsi-Cola spokesperson
Deaths
* 461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassination)
* 1100 - King William II of England
* 1921 - Enrico Caruso, opera singer
* 1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
* 1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, general and politician
* 1936 - Louis BlŽriot, French aviation pioneer
* 1976 - Fritz Lang, film director
* 1986 - Roy Cohn, politician, anti-Communist
* 1997 - William S. Burroughs, writer
* 1998 - Shari Lewis, puppeteer
Holidays and observances
* Costa Rica - Our Lady of the Angels
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