August 2

This page lists news articles and events for August 2.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

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Recurring Events

One-time Events/News

• 1832:
  • Event: Conclusion of the Bad Axe Massacre, in which Chief Black Hawk was defeated, ending the Black Hawk Indian War.
• 1923:
  • Event: President Warren G. Harding dies, possibly of a heart attack or stroke, under mysterious circumstances.
• 2008:
  • News: Bus rider recalls another gruesome incident
• 2009:
  • News: Is this really smoking gun of Obama's Kenyan birth?
  • News: Report reveals Burma's 2014 nukes target