About August 2
August 2, 2024 is the 215th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 151 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 180 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 2
- 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 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.
- 1610 –Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
- 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.
- 1870 –Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1939 –Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.
- 1943 –Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
- 1944 –ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
- 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.
- 1989 –A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
- 1990 –Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
- 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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