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History Events on August 02

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History Events on August 02

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

#Pakistan

In 1989

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

#Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_191

In 1985

The Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.

#Ilinden-Preobrazhenie_Uprising

In 1903

World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.

#Potsdam_Conference

In 1945

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

#Carthage

In 216 BC

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

#1968_Casiguran_earthquake

In 1968

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

#French_Revolutionary_Wars

In 1798

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

In 1939

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

#Majorian

In 461

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

#Government_of_India_Act_1858

In 1858

The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.

#German_occupation_of_Luxembourg_during_World_War_I

In 1914

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

#Calvin_Coolidge

In 1923

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

#Tower_Subway

In 1870

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

#Gleichschaltung

In 1934

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

In 1943

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

#General_strike

In 1918

The first United States Census is conducted.

#United_States_Census

In 1790

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

#Summerland_disaster

In 1973

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

#1989_Valvettiturai_massacre

In 1989

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

In 1943

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

In 338 BC

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

#Positron

In 1932

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

#1922_Swatow_typhoon

In 1922

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

#World_War_I

In 1916

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

In 1343

Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

#Invasion_of_Kuwait

In 1990

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

#Edward_I_of_England

In 1274

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

#Edo_society

In 1869

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

In 2005

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

In 1937

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

#United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

In 1776

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

#Henry_Hudson

In 1610

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

#Bologna_massacre

In 1980

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

#Clay_Street_Hill_Railroad

In 1873

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

In 2014

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

In 1999

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.

In 1947

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

In 1944

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

In 1944

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

In 1897

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

In 1830

Thomas Grey is executed for participating in the Southampton Plot.

In 1415

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

In 1377

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