August 2

August 2nd will be the 214th day of 2023. This year, it will be a Wednesday which will be in week 31. We will be the 2nd of August 2023 in a year.

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What happened that day?

2014: At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.
2005: Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.
1999: The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
1990: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
1989: A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
1989: Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
1985: Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
1980: A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
1973: A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
1968: An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
1947: A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
1945: World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.
1944: World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
1944: ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist [Republic of Macedonia](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Macedonia), celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
1943: World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
1943: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
1939: Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1937: The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
1934: Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
1932: The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
1923: Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
1922: A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.
1918: The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
1916: World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
1914: The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
1903: The Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1897: Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
1873: The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
1870: Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
1869: Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
1830: Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
1798: French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
1790: The first United States Census is conducted.
1776: The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
1610: During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay.
1415: Thomas Grey, conspirator against King Henry V, beheaded.
1377: Russian troops are defeated by forces of the Blue Horde Khan Arapsha in the Battle on Pyana River.
1343: After the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson sells her estates and raises a force of men with which to attack French shipping and ports.
1274: Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.
461: Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.
AD 70: The armies of Titus destroy the Second Temple as the final blow of the Siege of Jerusalem.
216 BC: The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.
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.