August 02
Tuesday 02, 2005:
Air France Flight 358 skids off the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport outside Toronto, Canada, destroying the plane but resulting in no loss of life.
Saturday 02, 1997:
Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
Tuesday 02, 1994:
Popular Japanese television and movie actor Beat Takeshi is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.
Thursday 02, 1990:
Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
Friday 02, 1985:
A Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas, killing 137.
Saturday 02, 1980:
A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
Monday 02, 1976:
An intruder breaks into Priscilla Davis's mansion in Fort Worth, Texas and kills Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr.
Saturday 02, 1975:
In New Orleans, Louisiana, the Superdome officially opens with an NFL football game between the New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers.
Wednesday 02, 1967:
The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London.
Sunday 02, 1964:
North Vietnam allegedly fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
Tuesday 02, 1955:
Velcro is patented.
Wednesday 02, 1950:
The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures is released in a public event held in Yankee Stadium in New York City.
Thursday 02, 1945:
World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
Wednesday 02, 1944:
Beginning of the Treblinka uprising.
Monday 02, 1943:
PT-109, with future president of the United States Lieutenant John F. Kennedy aboard, sinks.
Thursday 02, 1934:
Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
Friday 02, 1918:
Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
Wednesday 02, 1916:
World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
Sunday 02, 1903:
Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden uprising.
Tuesday 02, 1870:
Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
Monday 02, 1869:
Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
Thursday 02, 1798:
Second Coalition: The Battle of the Nile between French and British navies ends with a British victory.
Monday 02, 1790:
The first US Census is conducted.
Friday 02, 1776:
Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United_States_Declaration of Independence.
Monday 02, 1610:
Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
Tuesday 02, 461:
Majorian resigns as Western Roman Emperor; shortly afterwards Libius Severus is declared western Roman emperor by Ricimer
Saturday 02, -216:
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.
Thursday 02, -338:
Rise of Macedon: Philip II of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea.
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