What happend on 2nd August

01.08
03.08
1916

World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

1903

Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden uprising.

1870

Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.

1869

Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).

1798

Second Coalition: The Battle of the Nile between French and British navies ends with a British victory.

1790

The first US Census is conducted.

1776

Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United_States_Declaration of Independence.

1610

Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.