August 2

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1533 - Theodor Zwinger, medical scholar (d. 1588)
1672 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
1674 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (d. 1723)
1696 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect, city planner (d. 1825)
1788 - Leopold Gmelin, chemist (d. 1853)
1815 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack, writer (d. 1894)
1834 - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor (d. 1904)
1835 - Elisha Gray, American inventor and founder of Western Electric (d. 1901)
1854 - Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
1865 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
1868 - King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
1871 - John French Sloan, artist (d. 1951)
1892 - Jack Warner, Canadian film producer (d. 1978)
1897 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)
1900 - Helen Morgan, actress (d. 1941)
1905 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)
1905 - Myrna Loy, actress (d. 1993)
1905 - Rudolf Prack, actor (d. 1981)
1912 - Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
1914 - Beatrice Straight, actress (d. 2001)
1915 - Gary Merrill, actor (d. 1990)
1924 - James Baldwin, American author (d. 1987)
1924 - Carroll O'Connor, actor (d. 2001)
1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator
1929 - K.M. Peyton, English writer
1932 - Peter O'Toole, Irish actor
1933 - Lorenzo Milam, author and broadcaster
1934 - Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut
1937 - Garth Hudson, Canadian musician, organist/keyboardist with The Band
1939 - Wes Craven, film director
1941 - Doris Coley, singer (Shirelles) (d. 2000)
1942 - Isabel Allende, author
1944 - Jim Capaldi, British drummer, singer, and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
1948 - Dennis Prager, radio talk show host and author
1950 - Lance Ito, American judge
1953 - Butch Patrick, actor
1957 - Mojo Nixon, musician and actor
1961 - Linda Fratianne, figure skater
1964 - Mary-Louise Parker, actress
1969 - Fernando Couto, footballer
1970 - Tony Amonte, hockey player
1972 - Kevin Smith, actor, director, and screenwriter
1974 - Jeremy Castle, singer and songwriter
1975 - Xu Huaiwen, German badminton player
1977 - Edward Furlong, actor
1982 - Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
1986 - Alisha Annas, musician
1992 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg, actress

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1976 - Fritz Lang, Austrian film director

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338 BC - Rise of Macedon: Philip II of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea.
216 BC - Punic Wars: In the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal destroys the Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art.
AD 461 - Majorian resigns as Western Roman Emperor; shortly afterwards Libius Severus is declared western Roman emperor by Ricimer
1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin to sign the Declaration_of_Independence.
1790 - First US Census; records are missing for five states: Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey and Virginia. Destroyed somewhere between that date and 1830.
1798 - Second Coalition: End of the Battle of the Nile between French and British navies; France defeated.
1869 - Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system 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.
1903 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden uprising.
1916 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
1918 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1934 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
1943 - PT-109, with future president of the United States Lieutenant John F. Kennedy aboard, sinks.
1944 - Beginning of the Treblinka uprising.
1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
1950 - The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was published on Yankee Stadium, New York.
1955 - Velcro is patented.
1964 - North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
1967 - The second Blackwall Tunnel opened in Greenwich, London.
1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival
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.
1980
- A terrorist bombing at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
- Hard rock band AC/DC release Back in Black, their first album with lead singer Brian Johnson and their best-selling
1985 - A Delta Air Lines 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.
1994 - Popular Japanese television and movie actor Beat Takeshi is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.
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.
2003 - A 65th anniversary edition of The Beano is released.

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