August 2nd, 1650

Born on August 2nd, 1650

Age in days, weeks and months
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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 1650

51

William III of England

King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1702

*November 14th, 1650, The Hague †March 8th, 1702, Kensington Palace

53

Steven Blankaart

Dutch entomologist

*October 24th, 1650, Middelburg †February 23rd, 1704, Amsterdam

64

William Dampier

British pirate and explorer (1651-1715)

*November 30th, 1650, East Coker †January 1st, 1715, London

72

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

English soldier and statesman (1650-1722)

*May 26th, 1650, Musbury †June 16th, 1722, Cumberland Lodge

64

Ferdinand Christoph Harpprecht

German jurist and university teacher (1650-1714)

*June 3rd, 1650, Tübingen †November 9th, 1714, Tübingen

47

Frederick Casimir Kettler

Duke of Courland

*July 6th, 1650, Jelgava †January 22nd, 1698, Jelgava

66

Johann Martin Veith

Swiss draughtsperson (1650-1717)

*May 9th, 1650, Schaffhausen †April 14th, 1717, Schaffhausen

50

Georg Bose

German merchant

*January 25th, 1650, Leipzig †July 23rd, 1700, Leipzig

59

Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild

German noble (1650-1710)

*November 19th, 1650, Gotha †May 13th, 1710, Römhild

69

Luigi Priuli

Italian cardinal (1650-1720)

*September 15th, 1650, Venice †March 15th, 1720, Rome

58

Anne Jules de Noailles

Second Duke of Noailles

*February 5th, 1650, Paris †October 2nd, 1708, Versailles

67

Domenico Martinelli

Italian architect (1650-1718)

*November 30th, 1650, Lucca †September 11th, 1718, Lucca

37

Nell Gwyn

Royal mistress (1650-1687)

*February 2nd, 1650, London †November 14th, 1687, London

54

Marian Schirmer

*November 21st, 1650, Brunn am Gebirge †June 27th, 1705, Vienna

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.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1650 is a normal year and no leap year.

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