August 2nd, 1694

Born on August 2nd, 1694

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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 1694

83

Voltaire

French writer, historian, and philosopher (1694–1778)

*November 21st, 1694, Paris †May 30th, 1778, Paris

59

Johann Gottfried von Hahn

German physician

*January 18th, 1694, Świdnica †May 1st, 1753, Świdnica

85

Giovan Battista Passeri

Antiquarian, catholic priest and civil servant (1694-1780)

*November 10th, 1694, Farnese †February 4th, 1780, Pesaro

52

Francis Hutcheson

Scottish philosopher (1694–1746)

*August 8th, 1694, Drumalig †August 8th, 1746, Dublin

59

Henry Pelham

Prime Minister of Great Britain; (1695-1754)

*September 25th, 1694, Laughton †March 6th, 1754, London

50

Leonardo Leo

Italian composer

*August 5th, 1694, San Vito dei Normanni †October 31st, 1744, Naples

73

Giorgio Baffo

18th c. Venetian senator and poet

*August 11th, 1694, Venice †July 30th, 1768, Venice

79

Georg Gottlob Richter

German philosopher and physician (1694-1773)

*February 4th, 1694, Schneeberg †May 28th, 1773, Göttingen

63

Christian Gottlieb Jöcher

German lexicographer

*July 20th, 1694, Leipzig †May 10th, 1758, Leipzig

77

Antal Grassalkovich I.

Hungarian noble (1694-1771)

*March 6th, 1694, Mojmírovce †December 1st, 1771, Gödöllő

76

Johann Daniel Schöpflin

German historian

*September 6th, 1694, Sulzburg †August 7th, 1771, Strasbourg

59

Johann Friedrich Nolte

German philologist and theologian (1694-1754)

*July 15th, 1694, Einbeck †June 12th, 1754, Schöningen

53

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui

Genevan legal and political theorist

*June 24th, 1694, Geneva †April 3rd, 1748, Geneva

40

Simon Henry Adolph, Count of Lippe-Detmold

Count of Lippe-Detmold (1694-1734)

*January 25th, 1694, Detmold †October 12th, 1734, Detmold

75

Johann Hildebrand Withof

German historian, opinion journalist and philologist

*January 1st, 1694, Lengerich †January 1st, 1769, Duisburg

62

Daniel Gran

Austrian painter (1694-1757)

*May 22nd, 1694, Vienna †April 16th, 1757, St. Pölten

77

Louis-Claude Daquin

French composer

*July 4th, 1694, Paris †June 15th, 1772, Paris

78

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

18th-century British statesman and man of letters; (1694-1773)

*September 22nd, 1694, London †March 24th, 1773, London

89

Bartolomeo Altomonte

Austrian artist

*February 24th, 1694, Warsaw †November 11th, 1783, Sankt Florian

62

Ernest Amadej Tomaž Attems

(1694-1757)

*December 21st, 1694, Graz †December 5th, 1757, Vienna

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1694 is a normal year and no leap year.

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