August 2nd, 1737

Born on August 2nd, 1737

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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 1737

72

Thomas Paine

American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)

*February 9th, 1737, Thetford †June 8th, 1809, Greenwich Village

56

Suzanne Curchod

French-Swiss salonist and writer

*June 2nd, 1737, Crassier †May 15th, 1794, Beaulieu Castle

61

Luigi Galvani

Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher

*September 9th, 1737, Bologna †December 4th, 1798, Bologna

77

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Writer and botanist from France (1737-1814)

*January 19th, 1737, Le Havre †January 21st, 1814, Éragny

72

Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke

King of Siam (1737–1809)

*March 20th, 1737, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya †September 7th, 1809, Bangkok

42

Nicolás Fernández de Moratín

Spanish writer

*July 20th, 1737, Madrid †May 11th, 1780, Madrid

72

John Broome

American politician (1738-1810)

*November 30th, 1737, Staten Island †August 8th, 1810, New York City

79

Marguerite de Gourbillon

French noble

*December 24th, 1737, Gray †December 11th, 1817, 2nd arrondissement of Paris

70

Elias Dayton

American politician (1737-1807)

*May 1st, 1737, Elizabeth †October 22nd, 1807, Elizabeth

3

Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria

Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Bohemia and Hungary

*February 5th, 1737, Vienna †June 7th, 1740, Vienna

70

Alexander Dalrymple

British geographer

*July 24th, 1737, Edinburgh †June 19th, 1808, London

73

Richard Bache

American businessman and Postmaster General

*September 12th, 1737, Settle †July 29th, 1811, Bucks County

74

Fromet Mendelssohn

(1737-1812)

*October 6th, 1737, Altona †March 5th, 1812, Altona

40

Georg David Matthieu

German painter (1737-1778)

*November 20th, 1737, Berlin †November 3rd, 1778, Ludwigslust

75

Fanny de Beauharnais

French poet and mother of the politician Claude de Beauharnais

*October 4th, 1737, Paris †July 2nd, 1813, Paris

50

Princess Louise Marie of France

French Princess, Discalced Carmelite nun and Venerable

*July 15th, 1737, Versailles †December 23rd, 1787, Saint-Denis

20

Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach

*June 2nd, 1737, Weimar †May 28th, 1758, Weimar

85

Charles Hutton

English mathematician

*August 14th, 1737, Newcastle upon Tyne †January 27th, 1823, London

79

Henry Wynkoop

American politician

*March 2nd, 1737, Bucks County †March 25th, 1816, Bucks County

53

Francis Hopkinson

American politician, judge, and author 1737-1791

*September 21st, 1737, Philadelphia †May 9th, 1791, Philadelphia

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1737 is a normal year and no leap year.

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