SomeFacts | August 2

On this day - August 2

A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of ...

The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior ...

Caesar, who marched to Spain earlier in the year, leaving Marcus ...

461 — Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed ...

932 — After a two-year siege, the city of Toledo, in Spain, ...

1274 — Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is ...

1343 — After the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson sells ...

1377 — Russian troops are defeated by forces of the Blue Horde Khan ...

1415 — Thomas Grey is executed for participating in the Southampton ...

1492 — The Jews are expelled from Spain: 40,000–200,000 leave. Sultan ...

1610 — During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, ...

1776 — The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence ...

1784 — The first British mail coach service runs from Bristol to ...

1790 — The first United States Census is conducted.

1798 — French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile concludes in ...

1830 — July Revolution: Charles X of France abdicates the throne in ...

1858 — The Government of India Act 1858 replaces Company rule in ...

1869 — Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of ...

1870 — Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, ...

1873 — The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable ...

1897 — Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief ...

1903 — The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire ...

1914 — World War I: The German occupation of Luxembourg begins.

1916 — World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the ...

1918 — The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in ...

1922 — A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing more than ...

1923 — U.S. Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes president upon the ...

1932 — The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by ...

1934 — Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following ...

1937 — The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect ...

1939 — Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. ...

1943 — World War II: After the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed ...

1943 — The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, ...

1944 — World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars ...

1944 — ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, ...

1945 — World War II: The Potsdam Conference ends.

1947 — A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner ...

1968 — An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more ...

1973 — A flash fire kills 50 people at the Summerland amusement ...

1980 — A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, ...

1982 — The Helsinki Metro, the first rapid transit system of Finland, ...

1985 — Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes ...

1989 — A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in ...

1989 — Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after ...

1990 — Iraqi invasion of Kuwait: Iraq invades Kuwait and temporarily ...

1991 — Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-43 to deploy the ...

1999 — The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.

2005 — Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International ...

2014 — At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a ...