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The August 2nd is the 214e Jour of the Année (215e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Before JC

1 to 1900

  • 1133 : the Anglo-Norman barons lend oath to recognize Mathilde Emperesse like heiress of the throne like her son Henri II.

  • 1569 : The town of Saint-Gaudens, (Haute-Garonne), is taken and plundered by the Huguenots carried out by the Count de Montgommery.
  • 1637 : Set fire to abbey of Orval, located in current the Walloon province of Luxembourg in Belgium, by Swedish troops with the service of the France and those of the marshal of Châtillon.
  • 1665 : French forwarding against the barbaresque pirate of Tunis and Algiers.
  • 1738 : The France proposes its mediation with the Germanic emperor Charles VI in his war with the Turkey.
  • 1802 ( Thermidor 15 year X ): following a Plebiscite, Napoleon Bonaparte becomes Consul with life (3 million yes, 1.600 not).
  • 1830 : Abdication of the king Charles X in France.

XXe century

  • 1916 : First World War: Austrian sabotage causes the immersion and the loss of the Italian ship '' Leonardo da Vinci '' with Taranto.

  • 1928 : The Italy sign a treaty of 20 years friendship with the Abyssinie.
  • 1934 : Death of the Marshal Hindenburg, at the 87 years age, which opens the way with Hitler for the acquisition of the full powerss.
  • 1934 : Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
  • 1944 : With Corogne (Spain), alternative of the Matador Shine Miguel González Lucas known as “Luis Miguel Dominguín”.
  • 1945 : End of the Conference of Potsdam
  • 1955: the Velcro is patented.
  • 1963 : The the United States announce that they will cease all the sales of military material to the South Africa because of the Apartheid.
  • 1964 : " Incident" gulf of Tonkin during which an American destroyer would have been attacked by the North-Vietnameses; the business will involve the American intervention in the area.
  • 1967 - the second Blackwall Tunnel is opened with Greenwich, London.
  • 1980 : Massacre of Bologna. A bomb left in the waiting room of the station kills 85 people and wounds more than 200 people.
  • 1990 : The Iraq invaded the Kuwait, the the United States freeze the Iraqi assets. It is the beginning of the second war of the Gulf.
  • 1991 : Signature of a frontier agreement between the Argentinian and the fine Chile putting at old litigations of more than one century.
  • 1993 : The Great Britain ratifies the treated of Maastricht.
  • 1994 - Happy Takeshi, popular actor of television and the Japanese cinema seriously wounded in an motorbike accident.
  • 1997 :
  • 1999 : Yaguine Koïta and Fodé Tounkara are found with Brussels, died in the landing gear of a plane of the Sabena coming from Conakry.

XXIe century

  • 2001 : The bosno-Serb general Radislav Krstić, recognized guilty of Genocide by TPI of $the Hague, is condemned to 46 years of prison for his role in the massacre of thousands of Moslems with Srebrenica, in Bosnia-Herzégovine in July 1995.

  • 2005 : The Minister for Health Xavier Bertrand request the opening of an investigation after the discovery of 351 Fetus and body of children still-born children or deceased shortly after their birth, preserved for some since twenty years “apart from any legal framework” in the death chamber of the Hospital Saint-Vincent-of-Paul in Paris.

Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Translation of the relics of holy Etienne from Jerusalem to Constantinople in 428.
  • Etienne I {{er}} of Rome (+ 257), pope confessor.
  • Eusèbe de Verceil (+ 371), bishop and martyr.

Catholic saints of the day

Orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Basile the Happy of Moscow (+ 1552)
  • Basile de Koubensk (+ 15th century)

See too

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