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August 2 in History
Historical Events on August 2
216 BC
The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.
1274
Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.
1776
The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
1916
World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
1923
Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
1939
Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1943
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.
1943
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.
1989
Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
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Famous Birthdays on August 2
1923
Shimon Peres
1924
James Baldwin
1970
Kevin Smith
1992
Charli XCX
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Famous Deaths on August 2
1922
Alexander Graham Bell
1923
Warren G. Harding
1934
Paul von Hindenburg
1997
William S. Burroughs
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