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Historical Events on August 2

  • Battle of Cannae

    216 BC

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

  • Battle of the Nile

    1798

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

  • Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci

    1916

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

  • Adolf Hitler

    1934

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

  • Einstein-Szilárd letter

    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.

  • Treblinka extermination camp

    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.

  • Japanese destroyer Amagiri (1930)

    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.

  • Pakistan

    1989

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

  • Gulf War

    1990

    Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

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