Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 2
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File:Wild Bill.jpg|Wild Bill Hickock
File:Stragedibologna-2.jpg|Bologna massacre
File:Makedonija140.jpg|The Macedonium monument in Krushevo commemorating the Ilinden Uprising of 1903
File:Tower subway carriage.jpg|The Tower Subway in 1870
File:Leonardodavinci.jpg|The Leonardo da Vinci
File:Impero d'occidente, maggioriano, solido in oro (arles), 457-461.JPG|Coin of Majorian
File:Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg 2.jpg|Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
File:Lion of Chaeronea 1914.JPG|Lion of Chaeronea
File:Tower Subway 1870.jpg|Drawing of the interior of the Tower Subway
File:HD.3A.032 (10542643693).jpg|Leo Szilard
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| Republic Day in North Macedonia
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| 216 BC – Second Punic War: Outnumbered Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal defeated a Roman army near the town of Cannae in southeastern Italy.
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| 1610 – English sea explorer Henry Hudson sailed into what is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage to reach the Pacific Ocean.
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| 1830 – His hand forced by the recent July Revolution, Charles X abdicated the throne in favor of his grandson, Henry.
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| 1831 - Dutch troops invaded Belgium in a final attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution
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| 1876 – American lawman Wild Bill Hickok was murdered during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota Territory.
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| 1897 – The Siege of Malakand ended when a relief column was able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand region of colonial India's North West Frontier Province.
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| 1903 – The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization started the Ilinden Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in Macedonia.
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| 1914 – World War I: Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and prime minister Paul Eyschen surrendered to the invading German army and the nation remained occupied for the rest of the war.
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| 1964 – Gulf of Tonkin incident
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| 1980 – A terrorist bomb exploded at a railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
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| 1985 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashed in Dallas, Texas, due to a microburst, resulting in 137 deaths.
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| 1989 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Indian Peace Keeping Force began a two-day massacre in Valvettithurai, killing 64 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians.
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| 1990 – Iraq invaded Kuwait, overrunning the Kuwaiti military within two days, and eventually sparking the outbreak of the Gulf War seven months later.
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| Kyawswa of Pagan |b|1260|
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- 338 BC – An allied army led by Philip II of Macedon overcame the forces of city-states led by Athens and Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony over the majority of ancient Greece.
- 1870 – One of the world's earliest underground tube railways opened in the Tower Subway, a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London.
- 1916 – An explosion, blamed on Austro-Hungarian saboteurs, sank the Italian dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci.
- 1923 – Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack.
- 1932 – At the California Institute of Technology, American physicist Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter with the discovery of the positron, for which he would receive the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- 1939 – Leo Szilard (pictured) penned a letter, signed by Albert Einstein and addressed to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning that Germany may develop atomic bombs, leading to the establishment of the Manhattan Project.
- 1947 – Star Dust, a British South American Airways airliner, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes; its wreckage was not found until 1998.
- 1971 – The English rock band the Who released Who's Next, the group's only album to top the UK charts.
- 2007 – Raúl Iturriaga, a former deputy director of the Chilean secret police, was captured in Viña del Mar after having been on the run following a kidnapping conviction.
- Born/died: | Thomas Grey |d|1415| Andrew Barton |d|1511| Arthur Bliss |b|1891| Jack L. Warner |b|1892| Marija Bursać |b|1920| Hugh Hickling|b|1920| Betsy Bloomingdale |b|1922| Shimon Peres |b|1923| Billy Cannon |b|1937| Chrystia Freeland |b|1968| Jean-Pierre Melville |d|1973| Roy Cohn |d|1986| Vikkstar123 |b|1995
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- Wild Bill Hickok – Davis Tutt shootout appears on July 21, so Hickok should not appear in the same year
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August 2: Roma Holocaust Memorial Day
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- 461 – Unpopular among the Senate aristocracy for his reforming efforts, Roman emperor Majorian was deposed by Ricimer and executed five days later.
- 1100 – While on a hunting trip in the New Forest, King William II of England was killed by an arrow through the lung loosed by one of his own men.
- 1790 – The first United States census was officially completed, with the nation's residential population enumerated to be 3,929,214.
- 1920 – Nepalese author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn alleged to contain attacks on the ruling dynasty.
- 1973 – A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.
{{Born and died list| Pope Severinus |d|640| Harriet Arbuthnot |d|1834| Bertha Lutz |b|1894| Simone Manuel |b|1996}}
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