What happened on 02 august

There have been many significant events that occurred on August 2nd throughout history. Here are a few notable ones:

1. 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Mobile Bay begins as Union Admiral David Farragut leads his fleet into the bay and engages the Confederate forces.
2. 1945 - World War II: The United States drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing an estimated 39,000-80,000 people immediately.
3. 1964 - The Gulf of Tonkin incident occurs, in which the USS Maddox, a United States Navy destroyer, is involved in a confrontation with North Vietnamese naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin.
4. 1974 - The United States President Richard Nixon resigns from office due to the Watergate scandal.
5. 1990 - The Soviet Union withdraws its troops from Poland, marking the end of the Soviet occupation of Poland that began in 1945.
6. 2007 - The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet", reclassifying Pluto as a dwarf planet.

These are just a few of the many events that have occurred on August 2nd throughout history.