Notable Historical Events on August 2nd
August 2nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
338 |
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 |
Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae - Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats numerically superior Roman army under command consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. |
BC AD | |
257 |
St Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
1057 |
Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium Pope Stephen IX [X] |
1100 |
King William II of England (William Rufus) is killed by an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tyrell while hunting in the New Forest. |
1542 |
French troops leave Flanders |
1552 |
Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion |
1578 |
Battle of Rijmenam |
1581 |
Leiden University names Snellius math professor |
1610 |
Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay |
1665 |
French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers |
1695 |
Daniel Quare receives a British patent for his portable barometer |
1701 |
Great Peace of Montreal signed between New France and North American Indian nations at urging of Huron chief Kondiaronk |
1704 |
Duke of Marlborough beats French & Bavarians at Blenheim |
1718 |
Austrian joins Triple Alliance |
1738 |
France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey |
1776 |
Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people |
1782 |
George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction |
1786 |
Utrechtse Vroedschap flees |
1787 |
Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc |
1790 |
1st US census (population of 3,939,214; 697,624 are slaves) is conducted. |
1791 |
Samuel Briggs & his son, patent nail-making machine |
1798 |
British under Admiral Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile |
1802 |
Napoleon declared "Consul for Life" |
1819 |
1st parachute jump in US |
1830 |
Charles X of France abdicates in favour of his grandson the Duc de Bordeaux |
1831 |
Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium |
1832 |
Battle of Bad Axe, Wisconsin: 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sauk & Fox Native Americans ending the Black Hawk War in the US |
1858 |
1st mailboxes installed in Boston & NYC streets |
1858 |
Government of India transferred from East India Company to Crown |
1861 |
Skirmish at Dug Springs, MI |
1864 |
2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens |
1865 |
Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
1865 |
Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps & is lost |
1870 |
Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London. |
1873 |
1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones |
1875 |
1st roller skating rink opens (London) |
1877 |
SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes |
1880 |
British Parliament officially adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) |
1884 |
Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent |
1887 |
Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire |
1892 |
Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator |
1894 |
Death duties 1st introduced in Britain |
1894 |
Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter |
1903 |
Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey |
1906 |
Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak |
1907 |
Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington & loses 3-2 to Detroit |
1909 |
1st Lincoln head pennies minted |
1909 |
Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers |
1911 |
Haiti's dictator Simon flees on US warship near Jamaica |
1912 |
18th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC of Buffalo NY |
1914 |
Belgian government receives German ultimatum |
1914 |
German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg |
1914 |
German troops overthrows Luxembourg |
1914 |
Germany & Turkey sign secret treaty of alliance |
1914 |
Great Britain mobilizes |
1914 |
Postdam Conference ended |
1914 |
Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia |
1914 |
Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place |
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. |
1920 |
Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in NYC |
1921 |
Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox |
1922 |
China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die |
1924 |
Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game |
1928 |
Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
1929 |
Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR |
1931 |
Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status |
1932 |
Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chicago Cubs |
1932 |
The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson. |
1932 |
Carl David Anderson discovers and photographs a positron (positive electron), the first known antiparticle |
1934 |
1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it |
1934 |
Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces |
1934 |
William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour |
1937 |
The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal. |
1938 |
1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals) |
1939 |
Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers |
1940 |
Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death |
1940 |
KL-House of saxon & commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia |
1941 |
German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman |
1941 |
Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia |
1942 |
250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp |
1942 |
Col-Gen Hoth' Panzer army reaches Kotelnikovo |
1943 |
Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka |
1943 |
Lt John F Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands |
1943 |
RAF bombs Hamburg |
1943 |
Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 & U-106 |
1943 |
Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed) |
1944 |
Amsterdam soccer team "The Volewijckers" plays in orange shirts |
1944 |
Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker |
1944 |
Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany |
1945 |
Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman & Churchill |
1953 |
Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash |
1953 |
KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia |
1955 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1958 |
Jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months |
1959 |
41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC |
1959 |
Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples |
1959 |
SF Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 HRs |
1961 |
Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club |
1961 |
Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo |
1961 |
St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto |
1962 |
NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m |
1963 |
30th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17 (65,000) |
1964 |
Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees |
1964 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
1964 |
North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin |
1964 |
Race riot in Jersey City NJ |
1965 |
Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing |
1966 |
Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting |
1967 |
New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to LA Rams 16-77 |
1967 |
US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5 |
1967 |
The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London. |
1968 |
35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17 (69,917) |
1969 |
Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minn 10th reunion |
1969 |
US President Richard Nixon visits Romania |
1970 |
Baltimore defeats KC 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals |
1970 |
France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
1970 |
Rubber bullets used for the first time in Northern Ireland during 'The Troubles' |
1972 |
Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London |
1973 |
George Brett gets his 1st hit |
1975 |
104°F (40°C) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record) |
1975 |
107°F (42°C) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record) |
1979 |
"Broadway Opry '79" closes at St James Theater NYC after 6 perfs |
1979 |
Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway |
1980 |
Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed |
1980 |
US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships |
1981 |
Australia set 151 to win, all out 121, Botham 5-11 in 14 overs |
1981 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
1982 |
Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season |
1982 |
Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network |
1983 |
STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad |
1983 |
US District Court begins trying Yonkers accused of race discrimination |
1984 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1985 |
5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo |
1985 |
Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, 137 die |
1985 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-209 |
1986 |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts) |
1986 |
TODAY/PC born today |
1986 |
Saddam Hussein offers peace in open letter to Iran |
1987 |
25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1) |
1987 |
chris johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am |
1987 |
Cin Red Eric Davis becomes 7th & earliest 30 HR 30 steal man |
1987 |
Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3") |
1987 |
Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in one season |
1987 |
Kevin Seitzer (KC Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game |
1987 |
Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) |
1987 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1988 |
Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo |
1988 |
System Enhancement Association settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC) |
1989 |
NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24 |
1990 |
Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia |
1990 |
Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his 10th home run in just 77 at bats |
1990 |
US President George H. W. Bush orders troops to Saudi Arabia |
1991 |
Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges |
1991 |
Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA |
1991 |
Mike Jeffcoat is 1st AL pitcher to get an RBI since 1972 |
1991 |
Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched |
1992 |
"Death & the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 159 perfs |
1992 |
Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Welch's Golf Classic |
1992 |
Tom Seaver, R Fingers, Hal Newhouser, & B McGowan enter Hall of Fame |
1993 |
NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes |
1993 |
Peter Angelos & William DeWitt purchase Orioles |
1993 |
Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed |
1993 |
Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 & WHK-AM/1420 |
1994 |
Congressional hearings begin on White Water |
1994 |
Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed |
1994 |
NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure |
1994 |
Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11) |
1995 |
Saudi Arabia's King Fahd issues a decree replacing all members of the Council of Ministers who do not have blood ties so the royal Family |
1998 |
26th du Maurier Golf Classic: Brandie Burton |
1998 |
30th Curtis Cup: US wins 10-8 at The Minikahda Club (Minneapolis, Minnesota, US) |
1998 |
San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds is hit by a pitch and charges the mound, causing a bench-clearing brawl |
1999 |
"The Sixth Sense", starring Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, and Haley Joel Osment, premieres |
2012 |
23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan |
2013 |
40 people are killed after an ammunition depot explodes in Homs, Syria |
2016 |
New Texas gun control law allows concealed guns on campus |
2016 |
US launches air strikes on IS in Libya |
2017 |
Senate confirms Christopher Wray to succeed James Comey as head of FBI |
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