Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 2
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August 2: International Friendship Day (2009); Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia
- 216 BC – Second Punic War: Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal defeated a numerically superior Roman army, near the town of Cannae in Apulia in southeast Italy.
- 1870 – Tower Subway, one of the world's first underground tube railways, opened beneath the River Thames in London.
- 1903 – In present-day Republic of Macedonia and Greece, the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization started the Ilinden Uprising against the Ottoman Empire (monument pictured).
- 1980 – A terrorist bomb exploded at the Central Station of Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
- 1989 – The Indian Peace Keeping Force began killing 64 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians over a two-day period in Valvettiturai, Sri Lanka.