August 2: Day of the Republic in Macedonia
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Coin of Majorian
- 338 BC – A Macedonian army defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony over the majority of Ancient Greece.
- 461 – Unpopular among the senate aristocracy for his reform efforts, Roman emperor Majorian (pictured on coin) was deposed and executed five days later.
- 1897 – The Siege of Malakand ended when a relief column was able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand region of colonial India's North West Frontier Province.
- 1932 – At the California Institute of Technology, Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter when he discovered the positron.
- 1947 – A British South American Airways airliner crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes, the wreckage from which was not found until 1998.
Andrew Barton (d. 1511) · Harriet Arbuthnot (d. 1834) · Marija Bursać (b. 1920)
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