What happened on 2 August?

14 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 The Government of India Act transfers the East India Company's government of India to the British Crown; the company itself is dissolved in 1874.
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 On 2 August USS Maddox exchanges fire with North Vietnamese torpedo boats; a second attack reported on 4 August almost certainly never happened. Together they provide the pretext f
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. 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
11. 1923 Presidency of Calvin Coolidge Roaring Twenties prosperity; small-government Republicanism.
12. 1943 PT-109 A Japanese destroyer rams and splits Lieutenant Kennedy's patrol torpedo boat in the Solomon Islands; he tows a wounded crewman to an island by a life-jacket strap in his teeth.
13. 1999 Ms. Fat Booty (Mos Def) Story-song single from Black on Both Sides.
14. 1903 Ilinden Uprising Macedonian revolutionaries proclaim the ten-day Kruševo Republic before Ottoman reprisals burn a hundred villages — celebrated in North Macedonia as the founding epic of Macedonian