Today in History
2 August
248 births · 119 deaths · 49 events recorded
Notable Births
All 248 ›
Varvara Gracheva
b. 2000
French tennis player (born 2000)
Mohammed Kudus
b. 2000
Ghanaian footballer (born 2000)
Mark (rapper)
b. 1999
Canadian rapper (born 1999)
Austin Theory
b. 1997
American professional wrestler (born 1997)
Keston Hiura
b. 1996
American baseball infielder (born 1996)
Simone Manuel
b. 1996
American swimmer (born 1996)
Alexander Emelianenko
b. 1981
Russian mixed martial artist
Steve Hillage
b. 1951
British guitarist
Notable Deaths
All 119 ›
Nitin Chandrakant Desai
d. 2023
Indian art director (1965–2023)
Vin Scully
d. 2022
American sportscaster (1927–2022)
Suzanne Perlman
d. 2020
Dutch Hungarian painter (1922–2020)
Judith Jones
d. 2017
American book editor (1924–2017)
Fritz Lang
d. 1976
Austrian filmmaker (1890–1976)
Ioryi Mucitano
d. 1911
Aromanian revolutionary in Ottoman Macedonia
Eduard Magnus Jakobson
d. 1903
Estonian artist and missionary
Pope John V
d. 686
Head of the Catholic Church from 685 to 686
On This Day in History
All 49 ›2014
At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.
2014 Kunshan explosion
2005
Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames, leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.
Air France Flight 358
1999
The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
Gaisal train collision
1991
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-43 to deploy the TDRS-5 satellite.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
1990
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait: Iraq invades Kuwait and temporarily establishes the Republic of Kuwait puppet state on the orders of Saddam Hussein, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
1989
Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
Pakistan
1989
A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
1989 Valvettiturai massacre
1985
Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
Delta Air Lines Flight 191