About August 2
August 2, 2025 is the 214th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 151 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 199 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 2
- 216 BC –Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
- 1377 –Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River because of drunkenness.
- 1776 –The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
- 1830 –Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
- 1869 –Japan’s samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
- 1873 –The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco’s famous cable car system.
- 1916 –World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
- 1918 –Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
- 1922 –A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.
- 1923 –As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
- 1937 –The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
- 1943 –Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
- 1964 –Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy.
- 1968 –An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
- 1973 –A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
- 1980 –A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
- 1985 –Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
- 1989 –A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
- 1989 –Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.
- 1990 –Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
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