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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.

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 Führer of Germany.
1945 - Potsdam Conference concludes.
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.

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