Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 338 BC - Philip of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea. 216 BC - Battle of Cannae Hannibal destroys the Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paulus and Publius Terentius Varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art. 1798 - End of the Battle of the Nile between French and British navies. 1861 - First income tax imposed in the US. 1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway opens in London 1903 - Unsuccessful uprising of Balkan people against Turkey. 1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany. 1945 - Potsdam Conference concludes. 1955 - Velcro patented 1967 - second Blackwall Tunnel opened in Greenwich, London 1975 - In New Orleans, Louisiana, the Superdome officially opens with an American football game between the New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers. 1976 - An intruder breaks into Priscilla Davis's Mockingbird Lane mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. Priscilla Davis and a friend are injured while Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr are killed. T. Cullen Davis is tried and found innocent of the crime. 1985 - A Delta Airlines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas killing 137 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War. 1997 - Australian ski instructor Stuart Diver is rescued as the sole survivor from the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales, Australia, in which 18 lives were lost. Births 1533 - Theodor Zwinger 1672 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, savant (+ 1733) 1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect, city planner (+ 1825) 1788 - Leopold Gmelin, chemist (+ 1853) 1815 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack, writer (+ 1894) 1854 - Milan I, king of Serbia 1868 - Constantine I of Greece, king of Greece (+ 1923) 1871 - John Sloan, artist (+ 1951) 1892 - Jack Warner, film producer (+ 1978 1897 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (+ 1974) 1900 - Helen Morgan, actress (+ 1941) 1905 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (+ 1963) 1905 - Myrna Loy, Academy Award winning actress (+ 1993) 1905 - Rudolf Prack, actor (+ 1981) 1914 - Beatrice Stgraight, Academy Award winning actress (+ 2001) 1915 - Gary Merrill, actor (+ 1990) 1924 - Carroll O'Connor, actor (+ 2001) 1924 - James Baldwin, author (+ 1987) 1932 - Peter O'Toole, actor: Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter 1934 - Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut 1939 - Wes Craven, horror film director 1942 - Isabel Allende, author 1948 - Dennis Prager - radio talk show host and author 1951 - Lance Ito, judge in the O. J. Simpson case 1953 - Butch Patrick, actor 1957 - Mojo Nixon, rockabilly musician, actor 1961 - Linda Fratianne, Olympics figure skater 1972 - Kevin Smith, actor, director, screenwriter 1977 - Edward Furlong, actor 1992 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg, actress, Pepsi-Cola spokesperson Deaths 461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassination) 1100 - King William II of England 1921 - Enrico Caruso, opera singer 1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, inventor 1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, general and politician 1936 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer 1945 - Pietro Mascagni, composer 1976 - Fritz Lang, film director 1976 - Andrea Wilborn, daughter of Priscilla Davis 1976 - Stan Farr, TCU Basketball star, boyfriend of Priscilla Davis 1986 - Roy Cohn, politician, anti-Communist 1997 - William S. Burroughs, writer 1998 - Shari Lewis, puppeteer Holidays and observances Costa Rica - Our Lady of the Angels See Also: August 1 - August 3 - July 2 - September 2 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December\n This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.