August 2nd, 1543

Born on August 2nd, 1543

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 176,000 days old!

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... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on August 2nd?

August 2nd, 1971

The English rock band the Who released Who's Next, their only album to top the UK charts.

August 2nd, 1973

A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.

August 2nd, 1947

Star Dust, a British South American Airways airliner, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes; its wreckage was not found until 1998.

August 2nd, 1939

Leo Szilard (pictured) 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.

August 2nd, 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.

August 2nd, 1923

Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack.

August 2nd, 1920

Nepalese author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn alleged to contain attacks on the ruling dynasty.

August 2nd, 1916

An explosion, blamed on Austro-Hungarian saboteurs, sank the Italian dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci.

August 2nd, 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.

August 2nd, 1790

The first United States census was officially completed, with the nation's residential population enumerated to be 3,929,214.

August 2nd, 1100

While on a hunting trip in the New Forest, King William II of England was killed by an arrow through the lung loosed by one of his own men.

August 2nd, 0461

Unpopular among the Senate aristocracy for his reforming efforts, Roman emperor Majorian was deposed by Ricimer and executed five days later.

January 1st, 1970

An allied army led by Philip II of Macedon overcame the forces of city-states led by Athens and Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony over the majority of ancient Greece.

August 2nd, 1914

The French army's general headquarters was activated in anticipation of war with Germany.

August 2nd, 1945

World War II: The Potsdam Conference ends.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 2nd

Same year
Born in 1543

73

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1543–1616)

*January 31st, 1543, Okazaki Castle †June 1st, 1616, Sunpu Castle

60

Christine of Hesse

Duchess Consort of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp

*June 29th, 1543, Kassel †May 13th, 1604, Kiel

91

Lettice Knollys

English noblewoman

*November 8th, 1543, Rotherfield Greys †December 25th, 1634, Drayton Bassett

74

Giovanni Bembo

Doge of Venice (1543-1618)

*August 21st, 1543, Venice †March 16th, 1618, Venice

59

Sharaf Khan Bidlisi

Kurdish noble and writer (1543-c.1603)

*February 25th, 1543, Bitlis †January 1st, 1603, Bitlis

65

Charles III, Duke of Lorraine

Duke of Lorraine from 1545

*February 18th, 1543, Nancy †May 14th, 1608, Nancy

71

Claudio Acquaviva

Superior General of the Society of Jesus

*September 14th, 1543, Atri †January 31st, 1615, Rome

60

Hartmann Pistoris

German jurist (1543-1603)

*January 22nd, 1543, Leipzig †March 1st, 1603, Leipzig

47

Kanō Eitoku

Japanese artist (1543-1590)

*February 16th, 1543, Heian-kyō †October 12th, 1590, Heian-kyō

64

John Still

Bishop of Bath and Wells in Somerset, England

*November 30th, 1543, Grantham †January 1st, 1608, Wells

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 2nd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Romani genocide-related observances, including) which are celebrated on August 2nd.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1543 is a normal year and no leap year.

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