August 2nd, 1664

Born on August 2nd, 1664

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 1664

62

John Vanbrugh

English architect and dramatist

*January 24th, 1664, City of London †March 26th, 1726, London

88

Giulio Alberoni

Italian cardinal, statesman (1664-1752)

*May 21st, 1664, Fiorenzuola d'Arda †June 26th, 1752, Piacenza

86

Rachel Ruysch

Dutch painter (1664-1750)

*June 3rd, 1664, The Hague †August 12th, 1750, Amsterdam

39

Mustafa II

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1664-1703)

*June 5th, 1664, Edirne †December 1st, 1703, Istanbul

68

Daniel Nebel

Botanist (1664-1733)

*September 24th, 1664, Heidelberg †March 15th, 1733, Mannheim

81

Pierre Taffin

*March 6th, 1664, Ghent †December 12th, 1745, Valenciennes

48

Philip Reinhard, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

*January 1st, 1664, Rheinau †January 1st, 1712, Philippsruhe Castle

67

Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg

Archbishop and Prince-Elector of Mainz and Trier, Prince-Bishop of Worms and Wrocław, Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order

*July 18th, 1664, Neuburg an der Donau †April 6th, 1732, Wrocław

66

Bernardo Maria Conti

Italian cardinal

*March 29th, 1664, Rome †April 23rd, 1730, Rome

86

János Pálffy

Austrian field marshal (1664-1751)

*August 20th, 1664, Červený Kameň Castle †March 24th, 1751, Bratislava

74

Anton Maria Maragliano

Italian artist (1664-1739)

*September 18th, 1664, Santa Margherita Ligure †March 7th, 1739, Genoa

57

Matthew Prior

British diplomat, poet (1664-1721)

*July 21st, 1664, London †September 18th, 1721, Wimpole

83

Franz Joachim Beich

German artist (1665-1748)

*November 30th, 1664, Ravensburg †October 16th, 1748, Munich

57

Heinrich Leonhard Schurzfleisch

German librarian and historian (1664-1722)

*November 11th, 1664, Korbach †July 13th, 1722, Weimar

78

Lars Roberg

Swedish physician (1664-1742)

*January 24th, 1664, Stockholm †May 21st, 1742, Helga Trefaldighet

53

Johann Paul Hebenstreit

German moral philosopher and theologian (1664-1718)

*June 25th, 1664, Neustadt an der Orla †May 6th, 1718, Erfurt

44

François Louis, Prince of Conti

French prince

*April 30th, 1664, Paris †February 9th, 1709, Paris

72

David Oppenheim

Czech rabbi

*January 1st, 1664, Worms †September 12th, 1736, Prague

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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

Yes: 1664 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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