What happened on 2 August?

13 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1990 Gulf War US-led coalition expels Iraqi forces from Kuwait after Saddam's invasion.
2. 1858 British Raj begins Government of India Act dissolves the East India Company; direct rule by the British Crown follows.
3. 1934 Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes Führer Within hours of the old president's death, the offices of chancellor and president are merged in Hitler's person — and every soldier of the armed forces swears a new oath, not to t
4. 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait Saddam Hussein's Iraq seizes Kuwait, triggering an international coalition response.
5. 338 BCE Battle of Chaeronea Philip II and Alexander defeat the Theban-Athenian coalition; Macedon becomes the dominant power in Greece.
6. 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident Reported attacks on US destroyers provide pretext for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and dramatic US escalation in Vietnam.
7. 1935 Government of India Act 1935 Provincial autonomy granted; framework adapted into independent India's constitution.
8. 1914 Schlieffen Plan first executed German strategy to defeat France quickly via Belgium.
9. 1939 Einstein-Szilard letter Einstein and Szilard warn Roosevelt that Nazi Germany might build an atomic bomb, prompting US research.
10. 1589 Assassination of Henry III of France Eight months after Blois, a fanatical young friar gains an audience with the king and drives a knife into his belly. Dying, the last Valois formally recognises the Protestant Henry
11. 47 BCE Veni, vidi, vici at Zela Caesar crushes Pharnaces of Pontus in a five-day campaign and files the most famous dispatch in military history: 'I came, I saw, I conquered.' The swagger is the point — Rome is b
12. 1923 Presidency of Calvin Coolidge Roaring Twenties prosperity; small-government Republicanism.
13. 1903 Ilinden Uprising Macedonian revolutionaries proclaim the ten-day Kruševo Republic before Ottoman reprisals burn a hundred villages — the founding epic of Macedonian identity.