August 2nd, 1730

Born on August 2nd, 1730

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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 1730

86

Charles Messier

18th- and 19th-century French astronomer

*June 26th, 1730, Badonviller †April 12th, 1817, Paris

64

Josiah Wedgwood

English potter and founder of the Wedgwood company (1730–1795)

*July 12th, 1730, Burslem †January 3rd, 1795, Etruria

57

Johann Georg Hamann

German philosopher

*August 27th, 1730, Königsberg †June 21st, 1788, Münster

82

Louis Dutens

French historian (1730-1812)

*January 15th, 1730, Tours †May 23rd, 1812, London

59

Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

German noble

*August 15th, 1730, Köthen †October 17th, 1789, Zemun

28

Hannah Lightfoot

English Quaker

*October 12th, 1730, London †January 1st, 1759, Pennsylvania

65

Daniel Carroll

American politician, signer of the US Constitution (1730–1796)

*July 22nd, 1730, Upper Marlboro †July 5th, 1796, Forest Glen

57

Salomon Gessner

Swiss painter, etcher and poet (1730-1788)

*April 1st, 1730, Zürich †March 2nd, 1788, Zürich

74

Felice Fontana

Italian polymath

*April 15th, 1730, Pomarolo †March 19th, 1805, Florence

54

Otto Friedrich Müller

Danish zoologist (1730-1784)

*March 2nd, 1730, Copenhagen †December 26th, 1784, Copenhagen

61

Teodoro de Croix

Knight (1730-1792)

*June 20th, 1730, Lille †April 8th, 1792, Madrid

55

William Whipple

American politician and Founding Father (1730-1785)

*January 14th, 1730, Kittery †November 28th, 1785, New Hampshire

74

William Moultrie

American politician

*November 23rd, 1730, Charleston †September 27th, 1805, Charleston

79

Gottfried Christoph Beireis

German physician and chemist (1730-1809)

*March 2nd, 1730, Mühlhausen †September 18th, 1809, Helmstedt

80

Leonardo Antonelli

Catholic cardinal

*November 6th, 1730, Senigallia †January 23rd, 1811, Senigallia

71

Motoori Norinaga

Japanese scholar and philosopher (1730–1801)

*June 21st, 1730, Matsusaka †October 5th, 1801, Matsusaka

78

Augustin Pajou

French artist (1730-1809)

*September 19th, 1730, Paris †May 8th, 1809, Paris

49

Joseph Hewes

Signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (1730-1779)

*January 23rd, 1730, Princeton †November 10th, 1779, Philadelphia

65

Henry Clinton

British army officer and politician (1730–1795)

*April 16th, 1730, Newfoundland †December 23rd, 1795, Portland Place

65

Anna Barbara Reinhart

Swiss mathematician

*July 12th, 1730, Winterthur †January 5th, 1796, Winterthur

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1730 is a normal year and no leap year.

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