August 2
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 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.
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 Blériot, 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
See Also:
August 1 - August 3 - July 2 - September 2 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December