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August 2

• 216 BC - The Romans are defeated at the Battle of Cannae by Hannibal.
• 1798 - Second Coalition: The Battle of the Nile between French and British navies ends with a British victory.
• 1916 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
• 1918 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
• 1943 - PT-109, with future president of the United States Lieutenant John F. Kennedy commanding, sinks.
• 1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
• 1964 - North Vietnam allegedly fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
• 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.