08-02-2004, 06:41 AM
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August 2nd
338 BC ~ Philip of Macedon crushed Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea.
216 BC ~ Battle of Cannae: Hannibal destroyed the Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paulus and Publius Terentius Varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of tactics.
1754 ~ Birthday of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Architect & City Planner.
1870 ~ Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway opened in London.
1921 ~ Death of Enrico Caruso, Tenor.
1932 ~ Birthday of Peter O'Toole, Actor.
1934 ~ Adolf Hitler became Führer of Germany.
1951 ~ Birthday of Lance Ito, Judge
1976 ~ Death of Fritz Lang, Film Director.
1997 ~ Australian ski instructor Stuart Diver was rescued as the sole survivor from the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales, Australia, in which 18 lives were lost.
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