Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 2
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August 2 :
- 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.
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