Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 2
This is a list of selected August 2 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Wild Bill Hickock -
Bologna massacre -
The Macedonium monument in Krushevo commemorating the Ilinden Uprising of 1903 -
The Tower Subway in 1870 -
Leó Szilárd
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1831 - Dutch troops invaded Belgium in a final attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution | refimprove |
| 1964 – Gulf of Tonkin incident | Moved to August 4 |
| 1980 – A terrorist bomb exploded at a railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200. | refimprove section |
| 1985 - Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashed in Dallas, Texas, US, due to a microburst, resulting in 137 deaths. | external links |
Eligible
- 338 BC – A Macedonian army defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony over the majority of Ancient Greece.
- 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.
- 461 – Unpopular among the senate aristocracy for his reform efforts, Roman emperor Majorian was deposed and executed five days later.
- 1830 – His hand forced by the recent July Revolution, Charles X of France abdicated the throne in favor of his grandson, Henry.
- 1876 – American lawman Wild Bill Hickok was murdered during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota Territory.
- 1897 – The Siege of Malakand ended when a relief column was able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand region of colonial India's North West Frontier Province.
- 1916 – An explosion sank the Italian dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci, which was blamed on Austro-Hungarian saboteurs.
- 1923 – Calvin Coolidge became the 30th President of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack.
- 1932 – At the California Institute of Technology, Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter when he discovered the positron.
- 1939 – Physicist Leó Szilárd wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed by Albert Einstein, warning that Germany might develop atomic bombs, which led to the establishment of the Manhattan Project.
- 1947 – A British South American Airways airliner crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes, the wreckage from which was not found until 1998.
- 1989 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Indian Peace Keeping Force began killing 64 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians over a two-day period in Valvettithurai, Sri Lanka.
Notes
- Wild Bill Hickok – Davis Tutt shootout appears on July 21, so Hickok should not appear in the same year
August 2: Day of the Republic in Macedonia
- 1610 – English sea explorer Henry Hudson sailed into what is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage to reach the Pacific Ocean.
- 1790 – The first United States Census was conducted, as mandated by the United States Constitution to allocate Congressional seats and electoral votes.
- 1870 – Tower Subway (interior pictured), one of the world's earliest underground tube railways, opened beneath the River Thames in London.
- 1903 – The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization started the Ilinden Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in Macedonia.
- 1990 – Iraq invaded Kuwait, overrunning the Kuwaiti military within two days, and eventually sparking the outbreak of the Gulf War seven months later.