August 2
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[edit] Events
- 338 BC - 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 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae - The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
- 1610 - Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
- 1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United States Declaration of Independence.
- 1790 - The first US Census is conducted.
- 1798 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) concludes in a British victory
- 1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
- 1964 - Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Incident - North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fires on U.S. destroyers, USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy.
- 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces in the Gulf War
[edit] Births
- 1923 - Shimon Peres, Israeli politician
[edit] Deaths
- 1876 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
- 1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor, invented the telephone(b. 1847)
- 1923 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
- 1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and statesman (b. 1847)
- 1967 - Adrien Arcand, Canadian nationalist (b. 1899)
- 1997 - William Seward Burroughs II, American novelist (b. 1914)
