Reuters historical calendar - August 2

LONDON, Aug 1 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 2 since 1900.

1914 - Germany occupied Luxembourg and sent an ultimatum to Belgium to allow passage of its troops across its territory.

1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor, died in Naples.

1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor of the telephone in 1876, died.

1923 - Warren Harding, 29th US president from 1921, died in San Francisco on his return from a trip to Alaska. Calvin Coolidge took over the presidency.

1934 - Adolf Hitler declared himself Germany's supreme leader on the death of President Hindenberg.

1936 - Louis Bleriot, French aviator and the first to fly the English Channel, died.

1939 - Albert Einstein, concerned that German scientists were working on powerful bombs using uranium, wrote to President Franklin D Roosevelt urging him to start an atomic project.

1970 - The British army used rubber bullets for the first time to quell a riot in Northern Ireland.

1980 - A bomb attack on the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killed 85 people.

1985 - A Delta Airlines Tristar airliner crashed on its final approach to Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, killing 133 people.

1990 - Iraq invaded Kuwait.

1996 - Michael Johnson became the first athlete to win both the 200 and 400 metre race at the same Olympic games.

1997 - Charles Taylor was sworn in as Liberia's president, completing a transition from seven years of civil war.

1997 - William S Burroughs, US ''beat generation'' writer, the counterculture author best known for the novel ''Naked Lunch'' based on his experiences as a drug addict, died aged 83.

1999 - India's Awadh-Asom Express train, heading for the state of Asom, and the Delhi-bound Brahmaputra Mail collided head-on in eastern India, killing 285 people and injuring nearly 300.

2000 - Israel's Foreign Minister David Levy resigned, accusing Prime Minister Ehud Barak of making too many concessions to the Palestinians.

2001 - Bosnian serb General Radislav Krstic was jailed for 46 years for the murder of thousands of Muslims in the Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.

2002 - UNITA military forces were officially disbanded and 18 UNITA generals were commissioned and integrated into the Angolan army.

2004 - French photo legend Henri Cartier-Bresson, widely regarded as one of the great photographers of the 20th century, died aged 95.

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