Events
338
BC – 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.
216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle
of Cannae – The Carthaginian army
led by Hannibal defeats a numerically
superior Roman army under command
of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus
and Gaius Terentius Varro.
461 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona
(Northern Italy) and deposed by the
Suebian general Ricimer as puppet
emperor.
1377 – Russian troops are defeated
in the Battle on Pyana River because
of drunkenness.
1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what
is now known as Hudson Bay thinking
he had made it through the Northwest
Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
1776 – The signing of the United States
Declaration of Independence took place.
1790 – The first US Census is conducted.
1798 – French Revolutionary Wars:
the Battle of the Nile concludes in
a British victory.
1830 – Charles X of France abdicates
the throne in favor of his grandson
Henri.
1869 – Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan,
merchant class system (Shinōkōshō)
is abolished as part of the Meiji
Restoration reforms. (Traditional
Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first
underground tube railway, opens in
London.
1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad
begins operating the first cable car
in San Francisco's famous cable car
system.
1897 – Anglo-Afghan wars: The Siege
of Malakand ends when a relief column
is able to reach the British garrison
in the Malakand region of colonial
India's North West Frontier Province.
1903 – Fall of the Ottoman Empire:
an unsuccessful uprising led by the
Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary
Organization against Ottoman Turkey,
also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie
Uprising, takes place.
1916 – World War I: Austrian sabotage
causes the sinking of the Italian
battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
1918 – Japan announces that it is
deploying troops to Siberia in the
aftermath of World War I.
1918 – The first general strike in
Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
1922 – A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic
of China killing more than 50,000
people.
1923 – As vice president, Calvin Coolidge
becomes the 30th President of the
United States after the death of Warren
G. Harding
1932 – The positron (antiparticle
of the electron) is discovered by
Carl D. Anderson.
1934 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler
becomes Führer of Germany.
1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
is passed in America, the effect of
which is to render marijuana and all
its by-products illegal.
1939 – Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd
write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
urging him to begin the Manhattan
project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1943 – Rebellion in the Nazi death
camp of Treblinka.
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.
1944 – ASNOM: birth of the Socialist
Republic of Macedonia, celebrated
as Day of the Republic in the Republic
of Macedonia.
1945 – World War II: the Potsdam Conference,
at which the Allied Powers discuss
the future of defeated Germany, is
concluded.
1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin
incident – North Vietnamese gunboats
allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyers
USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy.
1968 – An earthquake hits Casiguran,
Aurora, Philippines killing more than
270 people and wounding 261.
1973 – A flash fire kills 51 at the
Summerland amusement centre at Douglas,
Isle of Man.
1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway
station in Bologna, Italy, killing
85 people and wounding more than 200.
1985 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191,
a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes
at Dallas/Fort Worth International
Airport killing 137.
1989 – Pakistan is re-admitted to
the Commonwealth of Nations after
having restoring democracy for the
first time since 1972.
1989 – A massacre is carried out by
an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri
Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually
leading to the Gulf War.
2005 – 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.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Alphonsus Mary de Ligouri
Basil Fool for Christ (Russian Orthodox
Church)
Eusebius of Vercelli
Pope Stephen I
August 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of Airborne Forces (Russia and
Ukraine)
Day of Azerbaijani cinema (Azerbaijan)
Our Lady of the Angels Day (Costa
Rica)
Republic Day, also known as Ilinden.
(Republic of Macedonia)
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