August 2nd, 1711

Born on August 2nd, 1711

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 1711

65

David Hume

Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

*April 26th, 1711, Edinburgh †August 25th, 1776, Edinburgh

49

Edward Boscawen

Royal Navy admiral (1711-1761)

*August 19th, 1711, Tregothnan †January 10th, 1761, Surrey

87

Qianlong Emperor

Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1711–1799)

*September 25th, 1711, Beijing †February 7th, 1799, Beijing

66

Laura Bassi

Italian physicist (1711-1778)

*October 31st, 1711, Bologna †February 20th, 1778, Bologna

40

William IV, Prince of Orange

Hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands (1711-1751)

*September 1st, 1711, Leeuwarden †October 22nd, 1751, Huis ten Bosch

83

Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg

Bohemian nobleman (1711-1794)

*February 2nd, 1711, Vienna †June 27th, 1794, Vienna

82

Francisco Pérez Bayer

Spanish writer (1711-1794)

*November 11th, 1711, Valencia †January 27th, 1794, Valencia

75

Princess Amelia of Great Britain

Princess of Great Britain (1711-1786)

*June 10th, 1711, Herrenhausen Palace †October 31st, 1786, Soho

67

Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple

First Lord of the Admiralty (1711-1779)

*September 26th, 1711, Wotton Underwood †September 12th, 1779, London

29

Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann

German poet

*January 15th, 1711, Erfurt †December 11th, 1740, Plaue

72

Agustín de Jáuregui

Spanish colonial governor (1711-1784)

*May 17th, 1711, Lekaroz †April 29th, 1784, Lima

74

Kitty Clive

British actress (1711-1785)

*November 5th, 1711, London †December 6th, 1785, London

77

François Jacquier

French Franciscan mathematician and physicist

*June 7th, 1711, Vitry-le-François †July 5th, 1788, Rome

38

Baron Franz von der Trenck

Austrian soldier (1711-1749)

*January 1st, 1711, Reggio Calabria †October 14th, 1749, Brno

60

Andrés Piquer

Spanish writer (1711-1772)

*November 6th, 1711, Fórnoles †August 3rd, 1772, Madrid

69

Noël Hallé

French painter and printmaker (1711-1781)

*September 2nd, 1711, Paris †June 5th, 1781, Paris

73

Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg

German prince-bishop and duke of Oldenburg (1711-1785)

*September 20th, 1711, Gottorf Castle †July 6th, 1785, Oldenburg

45

Peter Karl Christoph von Keith

Prussian confidant of Frederick the Great (1711–1756)

*May 24th, 1711, Poborowo †December 27th, 1756, Berlin

77

Gaetano Latilla

Italian opera composer

*January 12th, 1711, Bari †January 15th, 1788, Naples

70

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

French writer, editor

*April 26th, 1711, Rouen †September 8th, 1781, Avallon

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1711 is a normal year and no leap year.

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