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August 2nd, 1990	Event	Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces in the Gulf War.
August 2nd, 1985	Event	Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
August 2nd, 1980	Event	A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
August 2nd, 1973	Event	A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
August 2nd, 1968	Event	The 1968 Casiguran Earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
August 2nd, 1967	Event	The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London.
August 2nd, 1965	Event	French Riviera fires: At least 7,000 people, mostly holidaymakers, evacuate to a local beach as fires swept the hills between the Provence resorts of Hyeres and St Tropez.
August 2nd, 1964	Event	Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin IncidentNorth Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fires on U.S. destroyers, USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy.
August 2nd, 1945	Event	World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
August 2nd, 1943	Event	Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.

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