World Happenings On August 2

Day of the Republic in Macedonia

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.

UCJ, UNILORIN.