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Notable anniversaries in history for today: August 2
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of James Baldwin; US writer (Another Country).
- 90th: 1934 - First airplane train, plane tows three mail gliders behind it.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Albert W Hall; actor (Apocalypse Now).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Valery Bykovsky; cosmonaut (Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, 31).
- 90th: 1934 - In Germany, President Paul von Hindenburg dies at age 87.
- 90th: 1934 - In Germany, following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler assumes the office of Reich President as well. The Wehrmacht oath of allegiance is changed to be directly to Adolf Hitler.
- 90th: 1934 - William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in one hour.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Joanna Cassidy [Caskey] in Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA; actress (240 Robert).
- 60th: 1964 - Jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee and Molly), dies at age 69.
- 60th: 1964 - North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin.
- 60th: 1964 - Race riot in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.
- 50th: 1974 - CBS resumes airing the Your Hit Parade 30-minute variety TV show.
- 15th: 2009 - In Finland, round 9 of the FIA World Rally Championship is won by Mikko Hirvonen.
- 15th: 2009 - In South Sudan, at least 185 members of the Lou Nuer community are killed in an ambush by ethnic Murle fighters.
- 5th: 2019 - The United States officially withdraws from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty established with Russia in 1987.
- 5th: 2019 - Japan announces the removal of South Korea from its list of most trusted trading partners, effective on August 28.
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