August 2nd, 1743

Born on August 2nd, 1743

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 1743

83

Thomas Jefferson

President of the United States from 1801 to 1809

*April 13th, 1743, Shadwell †July 4th, 1826, Monticello

50

Antoine Lavoisier

French chemist

*August 26th, 1743, Paris †May 8th, 1794, place de la Concorde

80

Louise von Lengefeld

Hofmeisterin at the court of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and mother-in-law of Friedrich Schiller

*July 27th, 1743, Wolkramshausen †December 11th, 1823, Rudolstadt

50

Jean-Paul Marat

Politician and journalist during the French Revolution (1743-1793)

*May 24th, 1743, Boudry †July 13th, 1793, Paris

63

David Roentgen

German cabinetmaker (1743-1807)

*August 11th, 1743, Herrnhaag †February 12th, 1807, Wiesbaden

59

Toussaint Louverture

Haitian national hero

*May 20th, 1743, Cap-Haïtien †April 7th, 1803, Fort de Joux

50

Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet

French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743-1794)

*September 17th, 1743, Ribemont †March 28th, 1794, Bourg-la-Reine

79

René Just Haüy

French mineralogist

*February 28th, 1743, Saint-Just-en-Chaussée †June 3rd, 1822, Paris

84

Carl Peter Thunberg

Swedish naturalist (1743-1828)

*November 11th, 1743, Jönköping †August 8th, 1828, Uppsala Cathedral Assembly

77

William I, Elector of Hesse

Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel 1785 – 1821

*June 3rd, 1743, Kassel †February 27th, 1821, Kassel

84

Willem Jacob Herreyns

Flemish painter, draughtsman and art teacher (1743–1827)

*June 10th, 1743, Antwerp †August 10th, 1827, Antwerp

61

Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh

British duke and field marshal

*November 25th, 1743, London †August 25th, 1805, London

61

Valentin Adamberger

German opera singer

*July 6th, 1743, Munich †August 24th, 1804, Vienna

78

William Hindman

American politician (1743-1822)

*April 1st, 1743, Dorchester County †January 19th, 1822, Baltimore

67

Charles-Louis Tarieu de Lanaudière

Canadian politician (1743-1811)

*October 14th, 1743, Quebec City †October 2nd, 1811, Quebec

77

Johann Georg Meusel

German historian and lexicographer (1743-1820)

*March 17th, 1743, Eyrichshof †September 19th, 1820, Erlangen

74

Giuseppe Gazzaniga

Italian composer

*October 5th, 1743, Verona †February 1st, 1818, Crema

47

Ignazio Gaetano Boncompagni-Ludovisi

Italian cardinal of the Roman Curia, cardinal and economist (1743-1790)

*January 18th, 1743, Rome †August 9th, 1790, Bagni di Lucca

74

Christoph Bernhard Verspoell

German catholic priest and writer,publisher of a hymnal for which he wrote texts, melodies and organ settings (1743–1818)

*May 15th, 1743, Münster †January 5th, 1818, Münster

67

Henricus Aeneae

Dutch scientist (1743-1810)

*August 19th, 1743, Oudemirdum †November 1st, 1810, The Hague

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1743 is a normal year and no leap year.

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