August 2
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August 2 is the 214th day of the year (215th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 151 days remaining after August 2 until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 1533 – Theodor Zwinger, medical scholar (d. 1588)
- 1612 – Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1642)
- 1672 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
- 1674 – Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (d. 1723)
- 1696 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
- 1754 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect, city planner (d. 1825)
- 1788 – Leopold Gmelin, chemist (d. 1853)
- 1815 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, writer (d. 1894)
- 1834 – Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor (d. 1904)
- 1835 – Elisha Gray, American inventor and founder of Western Electric (d. 1901)
- 1854 – Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
- 1858 – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1934)
- 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
- 1868 – King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
- 1871 – John French Sloan, artist (d. 1951)
- 1892 – Jack Warner, Canadian film producer (d. 1978)
- 1897 – Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)
- 1900 – Helen Morgan, actress (d. 1941)
- 1905 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)
- 1905 – Myrna Loy, actress (d. 1993)
- 1905 – Rudolf Prack, actor (d. 1981)
- 1912 – Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
- 1914 – Beatrice Straight, actress (d. 2001)
- 1915 – Gary Merrill, actor (d. 1990)
- 1923 – Shimon Peres, President of Israel
- 1924 – James Baldwin, American author (d. 1987)
- 1924 – Carroll O'Connor, actor (d. 2001)
- 1925 – Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator
- 1929 – K.M. Peyton, English writer
- 1932 – Peter O'Toole, Irish actor
- 1933 – Lorenzo Milam, author and broadcaster
- 1934 – Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut
- 1937 – Garth Hudson, Canadian musician, organist/keyboardist with The Band
- 1939 – Wes Craven, film director
- 1939 – John W. Snow, American politician
- 1941 – Doris Coley, singer (Shirelles) (d. 2000)
- 1942 – Isabel Allende, author
- 1942 – Leo Beenhakker, Dutch football coach
- 1944 – Jim Capaldi, British drummer, singer, and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
- 1948 – Dennis Prager, radio talk show host and author
- 1950 – Lance Ito, American judge
- 1953 – Butch Patrick, actor
- 1957 – Mojo Nixon, musician and actor
- 1961 – Linda Fratianne, figure skater
- 1964 – Mary-Louise Parker, actress
- 1968 – Stefan Effenberg, German footballer
- 1969 – Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
- 1970 – Tony Amonte, hockey player
- 1972 – Kevin Smith, actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1974 – Jeremy Castle, singer and songwriter
- 1975 – Xu Huaiwen, German badminton player
- 1975 – Mineiro, Brazilian footballer
- 1976 – Kati Wilhelm, German biathlete
- 1977 – Edward Furlong, actor
- 1982 – Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
- 1983 – Michel Bastos, Brazilian footballer
- 1984 – Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer
- 1986 – Alisha Annas, musician
- 1986 – Mathieu Razanakolona, Malagasy skier
- 1992 – Hallie Kate Eisenberg, actress
[change] Deaths
- 924 – King Ælfweard of Wessex (b. 904)
- 1100 – King William II of England (b. 1056)
- 1589 – King Henry III of France (b. 1551)
- 1788 – Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (b. 1727)
- 1876 – Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
- 1921 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
- 1922 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American inventor (b. 1847)
- 1923 – Warren G. Harding, President of the United States (b. 1865)
- 1934 – Paul von Hindenburg, German military figure and President (b. 1847)
- 1936 – Louis Bleriot, French aviator (b. 1872)
- 1976 – Fritz Lang, Austrian movie director (b. 1890)
- 1997 – William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)
- 2005 – Jay Hammond, former Governor of Alaska (b. 1922)
- 2007 – Holden Roberto, Angolan rebel and activist (b. 1923)
[change] Events
- 338 BC – Rise of Macedon: Philip II of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea.
- 216 BC – Punic Wars: In the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal destroys the Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art.
- AD 461 – Majorian resigns as Western Roman Emperor; shortly afterwards Libius Severus is declared western Roman emperor by Ricimer
- 1776 – Delegates to the Continental Congress begin to sign the Declaration_of_Independence.
- 1790 – First US Census; records are missing for five states: Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey and Virginia. Destroyed somewhere between that date and 1830.
- 1798 – Second Coalition: End of the Battle of the Nile between French and British navies; France defeated.
- 1869 – Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
- 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
- 1903 – Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden uprising.
- 1916 – World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
- 1918 – Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
- 1923 – After the death of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge becomes President of the United States.
- 1934 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
- 1943 – PT-109, with future president of the United States Lieutenant John F. Kennedy aboard, sinks.
- 1944 – Beginning of the Treblinka uprising.
- 1945 – World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
- 1950 – The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was published on Yankee Stadium, New York.
- 1955 – Velcro is patented.
- 1964 – North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
- 1967 – The second Blackwall Tunnel opened in Greenwich, London.
- 1970 – Powder Ridge Rock Festival
- 1975 – In New Orleans, Louisiana, the Superdome officially opens with an American football game between the New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers.
- 1976 – An intruder breaks into Priscilla Davis's Mockingbird Lane mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. Priscilla Davis and a friend are injured while Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr are killed. T. Cullen Davis is tried and found innocent of the crime.
- 1980 – A terrorist bombing at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
- 1980 – Hard rock band AC/DC release Back in Black, their first album with lead singer Brian Johnson and their best-selling
- 1985 – A Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas, killing 137.
- 1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
- 1994 – Popular Japanese television and movie actor Beat Takeshi is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.
- 1997 – Australian ski instructor Stuart Diver is rescued as the sole survivor from the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales, Australia, in which 18 lives were lost.
- 2003 – A 65th anniversary edition of The Beano is released.
