August 2nd, 1760

Born on August 2nd, 1760

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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 1760

36

François-Noël Babeuf

French political agitator and journalist (1760-1797)

*November 23rd, 1760, Saint-Quentin †May 27th, 1797, Vendôme

64

Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon

French early socialist theorist (1760-1825)

*October 17th, 1760, Paris †May 19th, 1825, Paris

81

Luigi Cherubini

Italian Classical and Romantic composer (1760–1842)

*September 14th, 1760, Florence †March 15th, 1842, Paris

59

Jiaqing Emperor

Chinese emperor (1760-1820) of the Qing dynasty

*November 13th, 1760, Old Summer Palace †September 2nd, 1820, Chengde Mountain Resort and its outlying temples

34

Alexandre de Beauharnais

French general; president of the National Constituent Assembly in 1791

*May 28th, 1760, Fort-de-France †July 23rd, 1794, Paris

82

Auguste Vestris

French dancer (1760-1842)

*March 27th, 1760, Paris †December 5th, 1842, Paris

77

Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia Cosway

Painter from Italy who lived and worked in Italy, England and France (1760-1838)

*June 11th, 1760, Florence †January 5th, 1838, Lodi

73

Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt

German chemist and pharmacist

*April 24th, 1760, Erfurt †October 22nd, 1833, Berlin

38

Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren

German chemist

*May 1st, 1760, Bernburg †November 26th, 1798, Halle (Saale)

62

Franz Bühler

German composer (1760-1823)

*April 12th, 1760, Unterschneidheim †February 4th, 1823, Augsburg

37

Aristide Aubert du Petit-Thouars

French naval officer

*August 31st, 1760, Saumur †August 1st, 1798, Abu Qir

65

Domenico Pino

Italian General in Napoleon’s Grande Armée

*September 8th, 1760, Milan †March 29th, 1826, Cernobbio

72

Dora Stock

German artist (1760–1832)

*March 6th, 1760, Nuremberg †March 30th, 1832, Berlin

32

Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau

French politician (1760-1793)

*May 29th, 1760, Paris †January 21st, 1793, Paris

89

Joseph Plumb Martin

American revolutionary war soldier; farmer; public official

*November 21st, 1760, Becket †May 2nd, 1850, Stockton Springs

46

Louis Léonard Antoine de Colli-Ricci

Italian general (1760-1806)

*March 23rd, 1760, Alessandria †March 31st, 1806, Alessandria

78

Amaury Duval

French lawyer, historian and diplomat (1760-1838)

*January 28th, 1760, Rennes †November 12th, 1838, Paris

40

Charles-Albert Demoustier

French writer

*March 13th, 1760, Villers-Cotterêts †March 2nd, 1801, Paris

93

Christoph Wilhelm Mitscherlich

German classical philologist

*September 20th, 1760, Weißensee †January 6th, 1854, Göttingen

31

Frederik Sneedorff

Danish historian

*September 1st, 1760, Sorø †June 15th, 1792, Cumbria

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Leap year

Yes: 1760 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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