August 2

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.
• 1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway opens in London
• 1903 - Unsuccessful uprising of Balkan people against Turkey.
• 1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
• 1945 - Potsdam Conference concludes.
• 1955 - Velcro patented
• 1967 - second Blackwall Tunnel opened in Greenwich, London
• 1975 - In New Orleans, Louisiana, the Superdome officially opens with an American football game between the New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers.
• 1976 - An intruder breaks into Priscilla Davis's Mockingbird Lane mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. Priscilla Davis and a friend are injured while Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr are killed. T. Cullen Davis is tried and found innocent of the crime.
• 1985 - A Delta Airlines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas killing 137
• 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
• 1897 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (+ 1974)
• 1900 - Helen Morgan, actress (+ 1941)
• 1905 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (+ 1963)
• 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
• 1948 - Dennis Prager - radio talk show host and 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
• 1945 - Pietro Mascagni, composer
• 1976 - Fritz Lang, film director
• 1976 - Andrea Wilborn, daughter of Priscilla Davis
• 1976 - Stan Farr, TCU Basketball star, boyfriend of Priscilla Davis
• 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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