About August 2
August 2, 2022 is the 214th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 151 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 173 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 2
- 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.
- 1790 –The first US Census is conducted.
- 1798 –French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
- 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).
- 1897 –Anglo-Afghan wars: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand region of colonial India’s North West Frontier Province.
- 1918 –Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
- 1918 –The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
- 1932 –The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
- 1943 –Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
- 1945 –World War II: the Potsdam Conference, at which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, is concluded.
- 1964 –Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy.
- 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 –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.
- 2005 –Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.
- 2011 –Three Rapid City, South Dakota officers stop a group of suspicious people on Anamosa Street. One man pulls out a revolver and fires six shots, killing one officer, mortally wounding another, and injuring the third.
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