What happend on 2nd August

01.08
03.08
1967

The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London.

1964

North Vietnam allegedly fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

1955

Velcro is patented.

1950

The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures is released in a public event held in Yankee Stadium in New York City.

1945

World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.

1944

Beginning of the Treblinka uprising.

1944

The "Zigenerblock of the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau is liquidated. The last 3000 Sinti and Roma are murdered by German SS.

1943

PT-109, with future president of the United States Lieutenant John F. Kennedy aboard, sinks.

1934

Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.

1918

Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.