* 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured.

The modern French Army retains three Dragoons regiments from the 32 it possessed at the beginning of World War I: the 2nd, which is a nuclear, bacteriologic and chemical protection regiment, the 4th, an armour regiment equipped with Leclerc tanks, and the 13th, which is a special-ops parachute regiment.

* Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film ( 1971 ); 2nd enlarged edn.

While there are 54 members of the International Floorball Federation ( IFF ), the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland have finished in most of the coveted 1st, 2nd and 3rd places at the World Floorball Championships.

Gamma World < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s fourth edition abandoned the Action Control Table in favor of mechanics derived from the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition rules, although some mechanics presage Alternity and the 3rd edition D & D rules.

Work on the adaptation was halted when a 2nd edition of Gamma World was announced.

The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World ( 2nd ed.

During the 2nd World War, the Jewish Agency worked to establish a Jewish army that would fight alongside the British forces.

" Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed.

In World War II after initial deployment to France as part of the BEF, the regiment lost two battalions at the Defence of Calais ( 2nd Bn KRRC and 1st Bn the Queen Victoria's Rifles ( TA )) where a Green Jacket Brigade held up the German advance to enable the evacuation of the allied armies at Dunkirk.

The World Economic Forum placed Morocco as the 2nd most competitive economy in North Africa behind Tunisia, in its African Competitiveness Report 2009.

* Great Books of the Western World ( 1952, 52 volumes ), 2nd edition 1990, 60 volumes

* One World: The Ethics of Globalisation, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002 ; Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2002 ; 2nd edition, pb, Yale University Press, 2004 ; Oxford Longman, Hyderabad, 2004.

Chicory, which can be grown or gathered locally, was historically used as a coffee substitute during times when coffee was not freely available, such as during the American Civil War and the 2nd World War.

After the 2nd World War, British colonial policy in the 1940s and 1950s encouraged the development of farming co-operatives to partially convert subsistence farmers to cash husbandry.

* World Championship Beach Ultimate 2007, the 2nd 5-on-5 Beach Ultimate World Championship for national teams.

The Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked UiO 75th worldwide ( and best in Norway ), while The Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked UiO 186th worldwide in 2010 ( 2nd in Norway behind the University of Bergen ).

In 2011, the Academic Ranking of World Universities, published annually by Shanghai Jiaotong University, ranked UCSF 2nd in the world for Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy and 3rd in the world for Life and Agricultural Sciences.

In C. H. Lai ( 1987 ), Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam, 2nd ed., World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 179 – 213.

** The Baltimore Orioles defeat the Cincinnati Reds in Game 5 of the World Series, 9 – 3, to win the series 4 games to 1 for their 2nd World Championship.

< imagemap > File: 2nd millennium montage. png | From left, clockwise: In 1492, Christopher Columbus ; The American Revolution ; The French Revolution ; The Atomic Bomb from World War II ; An alternate source of light, the Light Bulb ; For the first time, a human being sets foot on the moon in 1969 during the Apollo 11 moon mission ; Aeroplanes become the most-used way of transport though the skies ; Napoleon Bonaparte, in the early 19th century, affects France and Europe on subjects of expansionism and modernization ; Alexander Graham Bell's telephone ; In 1348, the Black Death kills over 100 million people worldwide, and over half of Europe, in two years.

By the end of the 2nd World War, the Italians launched the ' age of crèma ' as the new coffee machines could create a higher pressure, leading to a finer grind and the now so classic ' crèma '.

: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games ( 2nd ed .).

Car Wars: The Card Game was released in 1991 ( with a 2nd edition in 2001 ), designed by Creede and Sharleen Lambard and published by Steve Jackson Games.

Oenomaus ' chariot race was one legendary origin of the Olympic Games ; one of its turning-posts was preserved, and round it grew an Elean legend of a burnt " house of Oenomaus ", reported by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE.

As 1902 was now too close, and Greece experienced internal difficulties, the 2nd Olympic Games in Athens were scheduled for 1906.

* 1953 – 1959: International Stoke Mandeville Games ( 2nd – 8th )

* 1964: 13th International Stoke Mandeville Games for the Paralysed, Tokyo, Japan – later known as the 2nd Paralympic Games

The 1964 Summer Paralympics, originally known as the 13th International Stoke Mandeville Games, were the 2nd Paralympic Games to be held.

The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games, 2nd ed.

The 2004 ceremonies were held on the 1st and 2nd of March 2005, after which the Interactive Awards were quietly retired, leaving only the Games Awards to return in October 2006.

Originally known as the 2nd Olympic Winter Games for Disabled.

The Opening Ceremony at the 2nd Olympic Winter Games for the Disabled in Geilo in 1980

The Australian Paralympic Team at the 2nd Olympic Winter Games for the Disabled in Geilo in 1980

In October, she represented India at the 2010 Commonwealth Games as the 2nd seed.

Pedro produced the song Feso Jaiye, which became a hit and was performed by many bands at the 2nd All-Africa Games in 1973.

The 1st World Games was held in Bari, Italy in 2007 and the 2nd was scheduled for Tunisia in 2009 but was cancelled and has now taken place in the form of an UWH-only event in Kranj, Slovenia in August 2009, billed as a World Championship but with only one non-European country competing ( South Africa ); France won the Open division while Great Britain took the Women's title.

* 1994 Asian Games – 3m springboard 2nd ( 16 years old )

* 2000 Olympic Games – 3m springboard synchronized ( with Guo Jingjing ) 2nd ( 22 years old )

* 1995 2nd place at the Panamerican Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

A team of four bridge players from the Strategic Games Club emerged 2nd in both the CJC Inter-school Bridge Tournament in May 2007, and the National Inter-schools Bridge Competition organized by the Singapore Contract Bridge Association in June 2007.

It also greatly expands upon the scope and scale of the original setting ; whereas the 9th Level Games ' game was designed for 30-minute game sessions where just about everyone died at the end, the 2nd Edition is designed for longer campaigns that allow characters to grow and develop as they normally would in any RPG.

There are also 2nd and 3rd year Long Games but these are usually quite minor.

His major successes were winning gold medal in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich ; bronze medal for 3rd place in the 1974 World Cup held in Germany ; and another silver medal for 2nd place in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.