August 2nd, 1754

Born on August 2nd, 1754

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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 1754

38

Louis XVI of France

King of France and Navarre (1754-1793)

*August 23rd, 1754, Palace of Versailles †January 21st, 1793, place de la Concorde

85

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

French diplomat (1754-1838)

*February 2nd, 1754, Paris †May 17th, 1839, Paris

61

Friedrich I of Württemberg

Last Duke of Würtemberg, then briefly Elector of Württemberg, and was later elevated to the status of King of Württemberg, by Napoleon I (1754-1816)

*November 6th, 1754, Trzebiatów †October 30th, 1816, Stuttgart

39

Jacques Pierre Brissot

French revolutionary (1754–1793)

*January 15th, 1754, Chartres †October 31st, 1793, Paris

39

Manon Roland

French revolutionary

*March 17th, 1754, Paris †November 8th, 1793, Paris

64

Johann von Hiller

Austrian general

*October 13th, 1754, Brody †June 5th, 1819, Lviv

86

Louis de Bonald

French philosopher (1754-1840)

*October 2nd, 1754, Monna Castle †November 23rd, 1840, Monna Castle

81

Christiaan Hendrik Persoon

German mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy (1761-1836)

*November 30th, 1754, Cape Colony †November 16th, 1836, Paris

69

Joseph Joubert

French moralist and essayist

*May 7th, 1754, Montignac-Lascaux †May 4th, 1824, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne

39

Georg Forster

German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary (1754-1794)

*November 27th, 1754, Mokry Dwór, Pomeranian Voivodeship †January 10th, 1794, Paris

63

Juan Meléndez Valdés

Spanish poet

*March 11th, 1754, Ribera del Fresno †May 24th, 1817, Montpellier

78

Seraphim of Sarov

Russian Saint and Wonderworker

*July 19th, 1754, Kursk †January 2nd, 1833, Sarov

63

William Bligh

Officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator (1754-1817)

*September 9th, 1754, Plymouth †December 7th, 1817, London

53

Wilhelm of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken

Bavarian general

*January 1st, 1754, Zweibrücken †January 1st, 1807, Munich

39

Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny

French general

*November 2nd, 1754, Luçon †July 10th, 1794, Combrand

71

Nikolay Rumyantsev

Prime Minister of Russian Empire (1754-1826)

*April 3rd, 1754, Saint Petersburg †January 3rd, 1826, Saint Petersburg

74

Gabino Gaínza

Spanish general and politician; 1st President of the Federal Republic of Central America (1754-1829)

*October 20th, 1754, Pamplona †January 1st, 1829, Mexico

78

James Hillhouse

American lawyer, real estate developer and politician (1754-1832)

*October 20th, 1754, Montville †December 29th, 1832, New Haven

84

Isaac Tichenor

American politician (1754-1838)

*February 8th, 1754, Newark †December 11th, 1838, Bennington

66

Andrew Ellicott

American surveyor (1754–1820)

*January 24th, 1754, Buckingham Township †August 28th, 1820, West Point

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1754 is a normal year and no leap year.

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