August 2 in history: • 1870 – One of the world's earliest underground tube railways opened in the Tower Subway (interior depicted), a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London. → go there • 1914 – The French army's general headquarters was activated in anticipation of war with Germany. → go there • 1932 – At the California Institute of Technology, American physicist Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter with the discovery of the positron, for which he would receive the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics. → go there • 1939 – Leo Szilard penned a letter, signed by Albert Einstein and addressed to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning that Germany may develop atomic bombs, leading to the establishment of the Manhattan Project. → go there • 1986 – The animated film Castle in the Sky, the first from Studio Ghibli, was released. → go there Born 1919: Nehemiah Persoff Wiki link Died 1983: James Jamerson Wiki link Born 1968: Chrystia Freeland Wiki link Born 1995: Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo Wiki link Pictured: Drawing of the interior of the Tower Subway.