August 2nd, 1677

Born on August 2nd, 1677

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 1677

88

Stanisław Leszczyński

King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania

*October 20th, 1677, Lviv †February 23rd, 1766, Lunéville

79

Jacques Cassini

French astronomer

*February 18th, 1677, Paris †April 16th, 1756, Thury-sous-Clermont

86

Benito Jerónimo Feijoo

Spanish monk and scholar

*October 8th, 1677, Casdemiro †September 26th, 1764, Oviedo

70

Christoph Heinrich Zeibich

German theologian

*June 28th, 1677, Espenhain †June 24th, 1748, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

84

William Dummer

Lieutenant Governor of colonial Massachusetts, acting governor during Dummer's War, benefactor of The Governor's Academy

*October 10th, 1677, Boston †October 10th, 1761, Newbury

79

Just Wiedewelt

Danish sculptor (1677-1757)

*November 18th, 1677, Copenhagen †September 8th, 1757, Copenhagen

49

Antonio Maria Bononcini

Italian cellist and composer

*June 18th, 1677, Modena †July 8th, 1726, Modena

29

Pietro Micca

Italian soldier (1677-1706)

*March 6th, 1677, Biella †August 30th, 1706, Turin

67

Nicola Fago

Italian composer (1677-1745)

*February 26th, 1677, Taranto †February 18th, 1745, Naples

65

John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

German prince

*July 29th, 1677, Zerbst †November 7th, 1742, Zerbst

58

Johann Jacob Baier

German naturalist

*June 14th, 1677, Jena †July 14th, 1735, Altdorf bei Nürnberg

74

Sigismund von Kollonitz

Austrian cardinal

*January 1st, 1677, Vienna †January 1st, 1751, Vienna

70

Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun

Austrian general and marshall

*August 27th, 1677, Sopron †February 18th, 1748, Sibiu

34

Johann Georg, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels

German noble (1677-1712)

*July 13th, 1677, Halle (Saale) †March 16th, 1712, Weißenfels

68

Guillaume Coustou the Elder

Sculptor from France (1677-1746)

*November 29th, 1677, Lyon †February 22nd, 1746, Paris

76

Rudolf Franz Erwein von Schönborn

German nobleman, diplomat and cellist (1677-1754)

*October 23rd, 1677, Mainz †September 22nd, 1754

69

Ulrik Kaas

Danish military personnel (1677-1746)

*October 4th, 1677, Hastrup †December 28th, 1746

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 1677 is a normal year and no leap year.

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