Historical events that took place on the 2nd
of August
1875: The world’s 1st roller skating rink was
opened in London
1922: About 60,000 people died after China
was hit by a typhoon
1934: Adolph Hitler became the
commander-in-chief of Germany
1944: Turkey cut off diplomatic ties with Nazi-Germany
1980: 86 people were killed following a fascist
bomb attack on an Italian train station
1985: Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashed at Dallas-Ft.
Worth Airport killing 137 people
1990: Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait
1993: A train crash in a Spanish tunnel left
12 people dead
1997: Nigerian Afrobeat superstar,
anti-military dictatorship activist, social maverick and pan-Africanist, Fela
Anikulapo Kuti died of AIDS
2010: The Marine Life census reports revealed
that 230,000 species of animal live in the world's oceans
2012: The Japanese press revealed that electronics
company, Sharp Corporation, would cut 5,000 jobs worldwide
2014: Yunnan Province of China was hit by a
6.1-magnitude earthquake leaving 367 people dead and over 1,880 people injured
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