Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 2

August 2:

Bust of Hannibal

• 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.

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