Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 2
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This is a list of selected August 2 anniversaries that appears on 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 may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.- 216 BC – Second Punic War: Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal (bust pictured) defeated a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae near the town of Cannae in Apulia in southeast Italy.
- 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground railway, opened beneath the River Thames in London.
- 1903 – The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire carried out the Ilinden Uprising.
- 1934 – Gleichschaltung: Chancellor Adolf Hitler became Führer, making him both the head of state and the head of government of Nazi Germany.
- 1990 – Iraq invaded Kuwait, overrunning the Kuwaiti military within two days, and eventually sparking the outbreak of the Gulf War seven months later.
