History Events on August 02

Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.

#Pakistan

Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.

#Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_191

The Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.

#Ilinden-Preobrazhenie_Uprising

World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.

#Potsdam_Conference

The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.

#Carthage

An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.

#1968_Casiguran_earthquake

French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.

#French_Revolutionary_Wars

Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.

#Albert_Einstein

Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.

#Majorian

The Government of India Act 1858 replaces Company rule in India with that of the British Raj.

#Government_of_India_Act_1858

The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.

#German_occupation_of_Luxembourg_during_World_War_I

Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.

#Calvin_Coolidge

Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

#Tower_Subway

Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.

#Gleichschaltung

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.

#World_War_II

The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.

#General_strike

The first United States Census is conducted.

#United_States_Census

A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.

#Summerland_disaster

A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.

#1989_Valvettiturai_massacre

Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.

#Treblinka_extermination_camp

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.

#Ancient_Macedonian_army

The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.

#Positron

A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.

#1922_Swatow_typhoon

World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

#World_War_I

After the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson sells her estates and raises a force of men with which to attack French shipping and ports.

#Jeanne_de_Clisson

Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

#Invasion_of_Kuwait

Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.

#Edward_I_of_England

Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.

#Edo_society

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.

#Air_France_Flight_358

The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

#Marihuana_Tax_Act_of_1937

The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.

#United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay.

#Henry_Hudson

A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.

#Bologna_massacre

The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.

#Clay_Street_Hill_Railroad

At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.

The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.

A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.

World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.

ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in North Macedonia.

Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.

Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.

Thomas Grey is executed for participating in the Southampton Plot.

Russian troops are defeated by forces of the Blue Horde Khan Arapsha in the Battle on Pyana River.