August 2<\/p>\n
338BC \u2013 The Macedonian army led by Philip II with him commanding\u00a0 the left wing and his son Alexander, the right, defeats the numerically superior combined forces of Athens and Thebes near Chaeronea in south central Greece, effectively ending opposition to Phillip’s rule of almost all of Greece.<\/p>\n
216BC \u2013 The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats the numerically superior Roman army at Cannae<\/p>\n
932 \u2013 The city of Toledo, Spain, surrenders to the forces of the Caliph of C\u00f3rdoba, Abd al-Rahman III.<\/p>\n
1610 \u2013 While on expedition to discover a northwest passage to the Pacific, Henry Hudson discovers a large bay.<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 The final ‘engrossed’ copy of the Declaration of Independence is completed and signed.<\/p>\n
1790 \u2013 The first United States Census is conducted<\/p>\n
1869 \u2013 Japan’s strict social class system, with the Shogunate as the de facto ruler,\u00a0 is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms and begins Japan’s rise as a modern era commercial, industrial and military Asian power<\/p>\n
1873 \u2013 The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco<\/p>\n
1876 \u2013 James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok is assassinated by Jack McCall while playing poker at the No. 10 saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota.<\/p>\n
1914 \u2013 The German army invades and occupies neutral Luxembourg during World War I.<\/p>\n
1923 \u2013 Vice President Coolidge becomes President upon the death of President Harding.<\/p>\n
1932 \u2013 The antimatter counterpart of the electron, the positron,\u00a0is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.<\/p>\n
1934 \u2013 Reichskanzler <\/em>Adolf Hitler becomes F\u00fchrer<\/em> of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.<\/p>\n 1937 \u2013 The Marihuana Tax Act is passed in America, the effect of which renders marijuana and all its by-products illegal.<\/p>\n 1939 \u2013 Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to President Roosevelt, urging him to develop a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at the Treblinka death camp. 1985 \u2013 Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas\/Fort Worth International Airport killing 136 of the 163 passengers and crew aboard and 1 person on the ground.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 Iraq invades Kuwait<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 2 338BC \u2013 The Macedonian army led by Philip II with him commanding\u00a0 the left wing and his son Alexander, the right, defeats the numerically superior combined forces of Athens and Thebes near Chaeronea in south central Greece, effectively ending opposition to Phillip’s rule of almost all of Greece. 216BC \u2013 The Carthaginian army … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57648"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94842,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57648\/revisions\/94842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109<\/em> under the command of Lieutenant Junior Grade John Kennedy is rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri<\/em><\/p>\n