1923 - President Warren G. Harding died suddenly in a hotel in San Francisco while on a Western speaking tour. He was succeeded the next day by Calvin Coolidge.
August 2, 1939 - Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning the possibility of atomic weapons. "A single bomb of this type carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory."
1990 - The Iraqi army invaded Kuwait amid claims that Kuwait threatened Iraq's economic existence by overproducing oil and driving prices down on the world market.
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London 2012 Olympics Day 2
http://nraombakc.blogspot.com/2012/07/2-august-knowledge-history-science.html
http://www.historyorb.com/events/august/2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2
History of India 2 August
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