Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 2
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August 2 :
- 216 BC - Second Punic War: Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal (bust pictured) destroyed a Roman army at the Battle of Cannae .
- 1870 - Tower Subway , the world's first underground tube railway, opened in London.
- 1903 - The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire carried out the Ilinden Uprising .
- 1934 - Adolf Hitler became Führer of Nazi Germany.
- 1990 - Iraq invaded Kuwait, triggering the Gulf War .