About August 2
August 2, 2020 is the 215th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 151 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 194 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.
- 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.
- 1776 –The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
- 1790 –The first US Census is conducted.
- 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).
- 1870 –Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London.
- 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 –The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
- 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.
- 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.
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