August 2nd, 1684

Born on August 2nd, 1684

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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

Born on August 2nd, 1684

67

Sophie of Saxe-Weissenfels

2 Aug 1684 - 6 May 1752

*August 2nd, 1684, Weißenfels †May 6th, 1752, Slezské Rudoltice

Same year
Born in 1684

43

Catherine I of Russia

The first Empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727

*April 5th, 1684, Krustpils †May 6th, 1727, Saint Petersburg

69

Ludvig Holberg

Danish-Norwegian writer, philosopher and historian (1684–1754)

*December 3rd, 1684, Bergen †January 28th, 1754, Copenhagen

71

Francesco Durante

Italian composer

*March 31st, 1684, Frattamaggiore †September 30th, 1755, Naples

35

Maria Barbara Bach

First wife of composer Johann Sebastian Bach

*October 20th, 1684, Gehren †July 7th, 1720, Köthen

66

Tokugawa Yoshimune

Japanese shogun (1684-1751)

*November 27th, 1684, Wakayama †July 12th, 1751

68

Johann Ludwig Kübel

German politician (1684-1753)

*September 21st, 1684, Heilbronn †September 7th, 1753, Heilbronn

79

Marco Benefial

Italian painter (1684-1764)

*April 25th, 1684, Rome †April 9th, 1764, Rome

60

Wilhelmine von Grävenitz

German noblewoman, favorite and royal mistress of Duke Eberhard Ludwig of Württemberg

*January 1st, 1684, Schwerin †October 21st, 1744, Berlin

65

Georg Engelhard Schröder

Swedish artist (1684-1750)

*May 31st, 1684, Stockholm †May 17th, 1750, Stockholm

82

Sante Veronese

Italian cardinal

*March 4th, 1684, Venice †February 1st, 1767, Padua

67

Samuel von Schmettau

Prussian field marshal

*March 24th, 1684, Berlin †August 18th, 1751, Berlin

65

Matthias Bel

Slovak and Hungarian poet, philosopher, geographer, educator, writer and scientist (1684-1749)

*March 22nd, 1684, Očová †August 29th, 1749, Bratislava

53

Francisco Solano de Luque

Researcher

*November 10th, 1684, Montilla †March 30th, 1738, Antequera

70

Giovanni Biagio Amico

Italian architect and theologian (1684-1754)

*February 3rd, 1684, Trapani †September 3rd, 1754, Trapani

51

Justus van Effen

Dutch writer

*February 21st, 1684, Utrecht †September 18th, 1735, 's-Hertogenbosch

80

William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath

English politician (1684-1764)

*March 22nd, 1684, Leicestershire †July 7th, 1764, Madrid

74

Adam Otto von Viereck

German politician (1684-1758)

*March 10th, 1684, Wattmannshagen †July 11th, 1758, Buch

60

Christoph Starke

German theologian

*March 10th, 1684, Bad Freienwalde †December 12th, 1744, Drezdenko

53

Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg

Duke of Württemberg from 1733 to 1737

*January 24th, 1684, Stuttgart †March 12th, 1737, Ludwigsburg

72

Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin

German general

*October 26th, 1684, Löwitz †May 6th, 1757, Prague

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Leap year

Yes: 1684 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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