Today In History:

2nd of August:


338 BC: The Macedonian army led by Philip II defeats the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.

216 BC: The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under the command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro at the Battle of Cannae.

1776 AD: The signing of the Declaration of Independence takes place, exactly a month after it was approved in Congress.

1798 AD: The Battle of the Nile concludes with a British victory of French forces.

1934 AD: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.

1945 AD: The Potsdam Conference takes place in Germany, with the three major world leaders - Joseph Stalin from Russia, Winston Churchill from Britain and Harry Truman from the United States - meeting to negotiate the terms for the end of the Second World War.





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3rd of August:


8 AD: Roman general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.

1492 AD: The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.

1492 AD: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

1914 AD: Germany declares war against France.





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6th of August

1945: Hiroshima

"I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it." - Groucho Marx

31 August

1997 - Princess Diana killed in a car crash in Paris.

"I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it." - Groucho Marx