08-01-2009, 07:50 PM
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August 2nd
216 B.C. ~ Hannibal destroyed the double Consular Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Publius Terentius Varro in the Battle of Cannae.
1776 ~ Delegates to the Continental Congress began to sign the Declaration of Independence.
1876 ~ Death of James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, Gunfighter.
1921 ~ Death of Enrico Caruso, Italian Tenor.
1932 ~ Birthday of Peter O'Toole, Actor. (Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter).
1934 ~ Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
1939 ~ Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program.
1964 ~ Gulf of Tonkin Incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on U.S. destroyers.
1976 ~ Death of Fritz Lang, Film Director (Metropolis, M, Frau im Mond).
1990 ~ Iraq invaded Kuwait, leading to the Gulf War.
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