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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1923 –As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
- 1932 –The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
- 1934 –Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: the Potsdam Conference, at which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, is concluded.
- 1968 –An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
- 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.
- 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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