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August 2 is the 214th day of the year (215th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 151 days remaining until the end of the year.

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 lead by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
• 1377 – the Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River, while being drunken.
• 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.
• 1790 – The first US Census is conducted.
• 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) concludes in a British victory
• 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.
• 1903 – Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
• 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.
• 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, essentially rendering 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: PT-109 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, Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
• 1945 – World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fires on U.S. destroyers, USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy.
• 1967 – The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London.
• 1968 – The 1968 Casiguran 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 back into the Commonwealth of Nations, for restoring democracy, since 1972.
• 1989 – 1989 Valvettiturai massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
• 1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces in the Gulf War.

Births

• 1455 – John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1499)
• 1533 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)
• 1612 – Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1642)
• 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)
• 1702 – Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau, German Prince (d. 1769)
• 1703 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)
• 1740 – Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general (d. 1817)
• 1788 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
• 1815 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894)
• 1820 – John Tyndall, British physicist (d. 1893)
• 1828 – Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general (d. 1895)
• 1834 – Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
• 1835 – Elisha Gray, American inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1901)
• 1858 – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, queen of the Netherlands (d. 1934)
• 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
• 1865 – John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955)
• 1868 – King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
• 1871 – John French Sloan, American artist (d. 1951)
• 1872 – George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946)
• 1875 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (d. 1957)
• 1878 – Aino Kallas, Finnish – Estonian author (d. 1956)
• 1882 – Red Ames, baseball player (d. 1936)
• 1884 – Rómulo Gallegos, President of Venezuela (d. 1969)
• 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian Aviator (d. 1961)
• 1887 – Tommy Ward, Former South African cricketer (d. 1936)
• 1890 – Marin Sais, American actress (d. 1971)
• 1891 – Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (d. 1971)
• 1892 – Jack Warner, Canadian-born American film producer (d. 1978)
• 1895 – Matt Henderson, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 1970)
• 1896 – Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer (d. 1960)
• 1897 – Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (d. 1945)
• 1897 – Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)
• 1899 – Charles Bennett, British screenwriter (d. 1995)
• 1902 – Helen Morgan, American actress (d. 1941)
• 1905 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (d. 1963)
• 1905 – Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
• 1907 – Mary Hamman, American writer (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Roger MacDougall, writer (d. 1993)
• 1912 – Palle Huld, Danish actor
• 1912 – Ann Dvorak, American actress (d. 1979)
• 1912 – Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
• 1914 – Félix Leclerc, Quebec singer, songwriter and writer (d. 1988)
• 1914 – Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1919 – Nehemiah Persoff, American actor
• 1920 – Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer (d. 1997)
• 1923 – Shimon Peres, Israeli politician, Prime Minister of Israel and the ninth President of the State of Israel
• 1924 – James Baldwin, American author (d. 1987)
• 1924 – Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger (d. 2005)
• 1924 – Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1925 – John Dexter, English stage and film director (d. 1990)
• 1925 – John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1925 – Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator
• 1925 – Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster
• 1926 – Betsy Bloomingdale, American socialite
• 1928 – Malcolm Hilton, Former England cricketer (d. 1990)
• 1930 – Vali Myers, Australian painter (d. 2003)
• 1931 – Pierre DuMaine, Catholic bishop
• 1931 – Viliam Schrojf, Slovak footballer (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Eddie Fuller, Former South African cricketer (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (d. 2006)
• 1932 – Peter O'Toole, Irish-born actor
• 1933 – Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Greek politician
• 1934 – Valery Bykovsky, Soviet cosmonaut
• 1935 – Hank Cochran, American country music singer and songwriter
• 1937 – Billy Cannon, American football player
• 1937 – Garth Hudson, Canadian musician (The Band)
• 1938 – Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• 1938 – Pierre de Bané, French Canadian politician
• 1938 – Terry Peck, Falkland Islander-born British soldier (d. 2006)
• 1939 – Benjamin Barber, American political theorist
• 1939 – Wes Craven, American film director
• 1939 – John W. Snow, American 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1941 – Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (d. 2000)
• 1942 – Isabel Allende, Chilean author
• 1943 – Tom Burgmeier, American baseball player
• 1943 – Max Wright, American actor
• 1944 – Jim Capaldi, British musician and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
• 1944 – Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian jazz musician
• 1945 – Joanna Cassidy, American actress
• 1945 – Alex Jesaulenko, Australian rules footballer
• 1947 – Massiel, Spanish singer
• 1948 – Andy Fairweather Low, British guitarist
• 1948 – Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host and author
• 1949 – James Fallows, American journalist
• 1950 – Lance Ito, American judge
• 1950 – Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (d. 1994)
• 1951 – Andrew Gold, American musician and songwriter
• 1951 – Joe Lynn Turner, American singer (Deep Purple, Rainbow)
• 1951 – Freddie Wadling, Swedish actor and musician (The Leather Nun, Fleshquartet)
• 1951 – Per Westerberg, Swedish politician
• 1953 – Marjo, Quebec singer
• 1953 – Butch Patrick, American actor
• 1954 – James Charles Kopp, American citizen who murdered Barnett Slepian
• 1954 – Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and manager
• 1955 – Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian
• 1955 – Tim Dunigan, American Actor
• 1955 – Tony Godden, English footballer
• 1956 – Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist/astrophysicist and author
• 1956 – Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler
• 1956 – Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer
• 1957 – Mojo Nixon, American musician and actor
• 1957 – Butch Vig, American record producer and musician (Garbage)
• 1958 – Arshad Ayub, Former Indian cricketer
• 1959 – Victoria Jackson, American comedian
• 1959 – Apollonia Kotero, American singer and actress
• 1960 – Neal Morse, American musician (Spock's Beard, Transatlantic)
• 1960 – David Yow, American musician (Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard)
• 1961 – Graham Dye, English singer/songwriter and guitarist (Scarlet Party; The Alan Parsons Project)
• 1961 – Linda Fratianne, American figure skater
• 1961 – Cold 187um, American rapper (Above the Law)
• 1962 – Cynthia Stevenson, Canadian actress
• 1963 – Daniel Pelosi, American convicted murderer
• 1963 – Laura Bennett, American architect and designer
• 1964 – Frank Biela, German racing driver
• 1964 – Mary-Louise Parker, American actress
• 1965 – Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1966 – Takayuki Iizuka, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1966 – Tim Wakefield, American baseball player
• 1966 – M.V. Sridhar, Indian cricketer
• 1967 – Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player
• 1967 – Aline Brosh McKenna, American screenwriter
• 1968 – Stefan Effenberg, German footballer
• 1968 – John Stanier, American musician Helmet
• 1969 – Cedric Ceballos, American basketball player
• 1969 – Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
• 1969 – Jan Axel Blomberg Norwegian musician (Dimmu Borgir, Winds, Mayhem)
• 1969 – Richard Hallebeek, Dutch guitarist
• 1970 – Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player
• 1970 – Kevin Smith, American director and screenwriter
• 1970 – Philo Wallace, West-Indian cricketer
• 1971 – Alice Evans, English actress
• 1971 – Michael Hughes, Irish footballer
• 1972 – Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1972 – Jacinda Barrett, Australian model and actress
• 1972 – Daniele Nardello, Italian professional road racing cyclist
• 1972 – Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer
• 1973 – Hiroyuki Goto, Japanese game designer
• 1973 – Danie Keulder, Namibian cricketer
• 1973 – Susie O'Neill, Australian swimmer
• 1974 – Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress
• 1975 – Mineiro, Brazilian footballer
• 1975 – Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-born badminton player
• 1975 – Ingrid Rubio, Spanish actress
• 1976 – Reyes Estévez, Spanish athlete
• 1976 – Sam Worthington, Australian actor
• 1976 – Jay Heaps, American footballer
• 1976 – Michael Weiss, Olympic figure skater
• 1976 – Mohammad Zahid, Pakistani cricketer
• 1977 – Edward Furlong, American actor
• 1978 – Goran Gavrančić, Serbian footballer
• 1978 – Matt Guerrier, American baseball player
• 1979 – Reuben Kosgei, Kenyan athlete
• 1980 – Ivica Banović, Croatian footballer
• 1981 – Aleksander Emelianenko, Russian MMA fighter ( Fedor's brother)
• 1982 – Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
• 1982 – Sara Foster, American actress
• 1982 – Kerry Rhodes, American football player
• 1982 – Grady Sizemore, American baseball player
• 1983 – Nick Diaz, American MMA fighter
• 1984 – Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer
• 1985 – Harry Smith, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1986 – Mathieu Razanakolona, Malagasy skier
• 1988 – Brittany Hargest, American singer
• 1990 – Kai Vincent Turley Good, Co-Founder of New Mission Ministries
• 1991 – Evander Kane, Canadian ice hockey player

Deaths

• 686 – Pope John V
• 924 – Ælfweard of Wessex (b. 904)
• 1100 – King William II of England
• 1222 – Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)
• 1445 – Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer (b. 1376 or 1377)
• 1511 – Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader
• 1589 – King Henry III of France (b. 1551)
• 1611 – Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
• 1696 – Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander (b. 1630)
• 1769 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (b. 1689)
• 1776 – Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (b. 1717)
• 1788 – Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (b. 1727)
• 1799 – Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1745)
• 1815 – Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (b. 1763)
• 1823 – Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753)
• 1849 – Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769)
• 1859 – Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
• 1876 – James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
• 1889 – Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (b. 1851)
• 1890 – Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (b. 1813)
• 1903 – Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850)
• 1920 – Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (b. 1891)
• 1921 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
• 1922 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor, invented the telephone(b. 1847)
• 1923 – Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
• 1929 – Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882)
• 1934 – Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and President of Germany (b. 1847)
• 1936 – Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872)
• 1939 – Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian mystic (b. 1883)
• 1945 – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863)
• 1955 – Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
• 1972 – Helen Hoyt, American poet (b. 1887)
• 1972 – Brian Cole, American bass player (The Association) (b. 1942)
• 1973 – Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director (b. 1917)
• 1974 – W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (b. 1893)
• 1976 – Fritz Lang, Austrian film director (b. 1890)
• 1978 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (b. 1899)
• 1979 – Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)
• 1983 – James Jamerson, American musician (b. 1936)
• 1986 – Roy Cohn, American politician (b. 1927)
• 1988 – Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938)
• 1988 – Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (b. 1914)
• 1990 – Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)
• 1990 – Edwin Richfield, British actor (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Michel Berger, French singer and songwriter (b. 1947)
• 1996 – Michel Debré, French politician (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian Warlord (b. 1934)
• 1997 – William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)
• 1997 – Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian musician (b. 1938)
• 1998 – Shari Lewis, American puppeteer (b. 1933)
• 2001 – Ron Townson, American singer (The 5th Dimension) (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Don Estelle, British actor (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Mike Levey, American television personality (b. 1948)
• 2003 – Peter Safar, Austrian physician (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Don Tosti, American musician (b. 1923)
• 2004 – François Craenhals, Belgian comics artist (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Steven Vincent, American journalist and writer (b. 1955)
• 2007 – Chauncey Bailey, American journalist and editor (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Holden Roberto, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Kay Dotrice, English repertory actress (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1935)

Holidays and observances

• Costa Rica – Our Lady of the Angels.
• Republic of Macedonia – Republic Day.
• Day of Airborne Forces in Russia and Ukraine.
• Day of Azerbaijani cinema
• Basil Fool for Christ in the Russian Orthodox Church
• Saint Abel in the Syrian church

Roman Catholicism

• Saint Alphonsus Mary de Ligouri
• Translation of Saint Alban, martyr (protomartyr of England)
• Saint Auspicius, Bishop of Apt, martyr
• Saint Eusebius, Bishop of Vercelli
• Saint Stephen I, pope, martyr

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts... ~ William Shakespeare in As You Like It

• selected by Kalki

2005

When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, and they never will because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up. I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing. You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it. ~ "Serendipity" in Dogma, by Kevin Smith

• proposed by MosheZadka

2006

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. ~ James Baldwin (born 2 August 1924)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2007

The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development — whether psychological or material — one must pass on to the actual realization. ~ Michelangelo Antonioni (recent death)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace. ~ James Baldwin

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Religious feeling is as much a verity as any other part of human consciousness; and against it, on the subjective side, the waves of science beat in vain. ~ John Tyndall

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

Suggestions

There is no toy called easy joy.

• 0 (no source, no anon, no relevance) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:43, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
• 0 Zarbon 14:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. ~ James Baldwin (born 2 August 1924)

• 3 InvisibleSun 03:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 10:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 14:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. ~ James Baldwin

• 3 InvisibleSun 03:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 10:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 2 Zarbon 14:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. ~ James Baldwin

• 3 InvisibleSun 03:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 10:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 1 Zarbon 14:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. ~ James Baldwin

• 3 InvisibleSun 03:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 10:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 1 Zarbon 14:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up. ~ James Baldwin (born 2 August 1924)

• 3 Kalki 21:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:22, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 14:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. ~ Ken MacLeod

• 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. ~ John Tyndall

• 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste. ~ John Tyndall

• 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

They are not long, the days of wine and roses;
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream. ~ Ernest Dowson

• 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. ~ James Baldwin

• 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him. ~ James Baldwin

• 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

It's no credit to this enormously rich country that there are more oppressive, less decent governments elsewhere. We claim superiority of our institutions. We ought to live up to our own standards, not use misery elsewhere as an endless source of self-gratification and justification. ~ James Baldwin

• 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. ~ James Baldwin

• 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. ~ James Baldwin

• 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

One writes out of one thing only — one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. ~ James Baldwin

• 4 Kalki 05:38, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

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Articles detailing events that are related to August 2. This may include the release of games or systems, the founding of a video game related company or some other important event.

From Familypedia

August 2 is the 214th day of the year (215th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 151 days remaining until the end of the year.

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 lead by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
• 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.
• 1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United States Declaration of Independence.
• 1790 - The first US Census is conducted.
• 1798 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) concludes in an British victory
• 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.
• 1903 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians in the region of Macedonia from the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
• 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.
• 1931 - Einstein urges all scientists to refuse military work.
• 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, essentially rendering 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: PT-109 rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future US President, saves all but two of his crew.
• 1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
• 1964 - Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Incident - North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fires on U.S. destroyers, USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy.
• 1967 - The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich.
• 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.
• 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces in the Gulf War.

Births

• 1533 - Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)
• 1672 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
• 1674 - Philip II, Regent of France (d. 1723)
• 1696 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
• 1703 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)
• 1788 - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
• 1815 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894)
• 1828 - Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general (d. 1895)
• 1834 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
• 1835 - Elisha Gray, American inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1901)
• 1865 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
• 1865 - John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955)
• 1868 - King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
• 1871 - John French Sloan, American artist (d. 1951)
• 1875 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (d. 1957)
• 1878 - Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian wrestler (d. 1968)
• 1878 - Aino Kallas, Finnish - Estonian author (d. 1956)
• 1882 - Red Ames, baseball player (d. 1936)
• 1884 - Rómulo Gallegos, President of Venezuela (d. 1969)
• 1886 - John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian Aviator ( d. 1961)
• 1890 - Marin Sais, American actress (d. 1971)
• 1891 - Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (d. 1971)
• 1892 - Jack Warner, Canadian film producer (d. 1978)
• 1896 - Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer (d. 1960)
• 1897 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)
• 1897 - Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (d. 1945)
• 1899 - Charles Bennett, British screenwriter (d. 1995)
• 1900 - Helen Morgan, American actress (d. 1941)
• 1905 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (d. 1963)
• 1905 - Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
• 1907 - Mary Hamman, American writer (d. 1984)
• 1910 - Roger MacDougall, writer (d. 1993)
• 1912 - Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
• 1912 - Ann Dvorak, American actress (d. 1979)
• 1914 - Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)
• 1914 - Félix Leclerc, Quebec singer, songwriter and writer (d. 1988)
• 1915 - Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1920 - Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer (d. 1997)
• 1923 - Shimon Peres, Israeli politician.
• 1924 - James Baldwin, American author (d. 1987)
• 1924 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1925 - John Dexter, English stage and film director
• 1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator
• 1925 - Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster
• 1930 - Vali Myers, Australian painter (d. 2003)
• 1931 - Pierre DuMaine, Catholic bishop
• 1931 - Viliam Schrojf, Slovakian football goalkeeper (d. 2007)
• 1932 - Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (d. 2006)
• 1932 - Peter O'Toole, Irish-born actor
• 1934 - Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut
• 1935 - Hank Cochran, American country music singer and songwriter
• 1937 - Garth Hudson, Canadian musician (The Band)
• 1938 - Pierre de Bané, French Canadian politician
• 1939 - Wes Craven, American film director
• 1939 - John W. Snow, American 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1941 - Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (d. 2000)
• 1942 - Isabel Allende, Chilean author
• 1943 - Max Wright, American actor
• 1943 - Tom Burgmeier, American baseball player
• 1944 - Jim Capaldi, British musician and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
• 1944 - Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian jazz musician
• 1945 - Joanna Cassidy, American actress
• 1945 - Alex Jesaulenko, Australian rules footballer
• 1947 - Massiel, Spanish singer
• 1948 - Andy Fairweather Low, British guitarist
• 1948 - Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host and author
• 1949 - James Fallows, American journalist
• 1950 - Lance Ito, American judge
• 1950 - Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (d. 1994)
• 1951 - Andrew Gold, American musician and songwriter
• 1951 - Joe Lynn Turner, American singer (Deep Purple and Rainbow
• 1951 - Freddie Wadling, Swedish actor and musician (The Leather Nun, Fleshquartet)
• 1951 - Per Westerberg, Swedish politician
• 1953 - Butch Patrick, American actor
• 1953 - Marjo, Quebec singer
• 1954 - Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and manager
• 1954 - James Charles Kopp, American citizen who murdered Barnett Slepian
• 1955 - Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian
• 1956 - Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist/astrophysicist and author
• 1956 - Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler
• 1956 - Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer
• 1957 - Mojo Nixon, American musician and actor
• 1959 - Victoria Jackson, American comedian
• 1959 - Apollonia Kotero, American singer and actress
• 1960 - Neal Morse, American musician (Spock's Beard and Transatlantic)
• 1960 - David Yow, American musician (Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard)
• 1961 - Linda Fratianne, American figure skater
• 1961 - Cold 187um, American rapper (Above the Law)
• 1964 - Mary-Louise Parker, American actress
• 1966 - Tim Wakefield, American baseball player
• 1967 - Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player
• 1967 - Aline Brosh McKenna, American screenwriter
• 1968 - Stefan Effenberg, German footballer
• 1969 - Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
• 1969 - Jan Axel Blomberg (Hellhammer), drummer for the band Dimmu Borgir
• 1969 - Richard Hallebeek, Dutch guitarist
• 1970 - Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player
• 1970 - Kevin Smith, American director and screenwriter
• 1971 - Michael Hughes, Irish footballer
• 1972 - Jacinda Barrett, Australian model and actress
• 1972 - Jimmy Pop, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
• 1972 - Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer
• 1972 - Daniele Nardello, Italian professional road racing cyclist
• 1972 - Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1973 - Hiroyuki Goto, Japanese game designer
• 1974 - Jeremy Castle, American singer and songwriter
• 1974 - Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress
• 1975 - Mineiro, Brazilian footballer
• 1975 - Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-born badminton player
• 1976 - Sam Worthington, Australian actor
• 1976 - Reyes Estévez, Spanish athlete
• 1977 - Edward Furlong, American actor
• 1978 - Goran Gavrančić, Serbian footballer
• 1978 - Matt Guerrier, baseball player in the United States
• 1979 - Reuben Kosgei, Kenyan athlete
• 1980 - Ivica Banović, Croatian footballer
• 1982 - Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
• 1982 - Grady Sizemore, American baseball player
• 1983 - Nick Diaz, American MMA fighter
• 1984 - Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer
• 1984 - Chiara Mastalli, Italian actress
• 1985 - Harry Smith, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1986 - Mathieu Razanakolona, Malagasy skier
• 1988 - Brittany Hargest, American singer (Jump5)
• 1992 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg, American actress

Deaths

• 686 - Pope John V
• 924 - Ælfweard of Wessex
• 1100 - King William II of England
• 1222 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)
• 1511 - Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader
• 1589 - King Henry III of France (b. 1551)
• 1611 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
• 1696 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander (b. 1630)
• 1769 - Daniel Finch, English politician (b. 1689)
• 1776 - Louis François I, French military leader (b. 1717)
• 1788 - Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (b. 1727)
• 1815 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (b. 1763)
• 1823 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753)
• 1849 - Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769)
• 1859 - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
• 1876 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
• 1889 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (b. 1851)
• 1890 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (b. 1813)
• 1903 - Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850)
• 1920 - Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (b. 1891)
• 1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
• 1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor, invented the telephone(b. 1847)
• 1923 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
• 1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and President of Germany (b. 1847)
• 1936 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872)
• 1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian mystic (b. 1883)
• 1945 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863)
• 1955 - Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
• 1972 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (b. 1887)
• 1972 - Brian Cole, American bass player (The Association) (b. 1942)
• 1973 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director (b. 1917)
• 1974 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (b. 1893)
• 1976 - Fritz Lang, Austrian film director (b. 1890)
• 1978 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (b. 1899)
• 1979 - Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)
• 1986 - Roy Cohn, American politician (b. 1927)
• 1988 - Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938)
• 1988 - Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (b. 1914)
• 1990 - Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)
• 1992 - Michel Berger, French singer and songwriter (b. 1947)
• 1996 - Michel Debré, French politician (b. 1912)
• 1997 - William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)
• 1998 - Shari Lewis, American puppeteer (b. 1933)
• 2001 - Ron Townson, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) (b. 1933)
• 2003 - Don Estelle, British actor (b. 1933)
• 2003 - Mike Levey, American television personality (b. 1948)
• 2003 - Peter Safar, Austrian physician (b. 1924)
• 2004 - Don Tosti, American musician (b. 1923)
• 2004 - François Craenhals, Belgian comics artist (b. 1926)
• 2007 - Chauncey Bailey, American journalist and editor (b. 1950)
• 2007 - Holden Roberto, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (b. 1923)
• 2007 - Kay Dotrice, English repertory actress (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances

• Costa Rica - Our Lady of the Angels.
• Bulgaria/Republic of Macedonia - Ilinden (St. Ilya Day), a day of remembrance of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
• Day of Airborne Forces in Russia.
• Day of Azerbaijani cinema
• Basil Fool for Christ in the Russian Orthodox Church
• Ilya the Prophet in the Russian Orthodox Church.
• Saint Abel in the Syrian church

Roman Catholicism

• Saint Alphonsus Mary de Ligouri
• Translation of Saint Alban, martyr (protomartyr of England) [England]
• Saint Auspicius, bishop of Apt, martyr [Apt]
• Saint Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli
• Saint Gaudentius, bishop of Chur, martyr [Chur]
• Saint Peter Julian Eymard
• Saint Stephen I, pope, martyr [common; 6082, in red]
• Saint Etheldritha/Alfrida

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada