Aug 2
338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
1918 – Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1945 – World War II: the Potsdam Conference, at which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, is concluded.
1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.