August 2nd, 1784

Born on August 2nd, 1784

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What happened on August 2nd, 1784?

August 2nd, 1784

The first British mail coach service runs from Bristol to London.

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What else 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.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 2nd

Same year
Born in 1784

65

Zachary Taylor

President of the United States from 1849 to 1850

*November 24th, 1784, Barboursville †July 9th, 1850, Washington, D.C.

72

William Buckland

English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856)

*March 12th, 1784, Axminster †August 14th, 1856, Islip

74

Leigh Hunt

British critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)

*October 19th, 1784, Southgate †August 28th, 1859, Putney

80

Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

British statesman and prime minister (1784–1865)

*October 20th, 1784, Broadlands †October 18th, 1865, Brocket Hall

39

Rafael del Riego

Spanish general and politician (1784-1823)

*April 7th, 1784, Tuña †November 7th, 1823, Madrid

53

Ferdinand Ries

German composer

*November 28th, 1784, Bonn †January 13th, 1838, Frankfurt

60

Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1784-1844)

*January 2nd, 1784, Coburg †January 29th, 1844, Gotha

75

Louis Spohr

German composer, violinist and conductor

*April 5th, 1784, Brunswick †October 22nd, 1859, Kassel

60

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot

French painter (1784-1845)

*December 14th, 1784, Paris †January 2nd, 1845, Paris

49

Stepan Pimenov

Russian sculptor (1784-1833)

*January 1st, 1784, Saint Petersburg †March 22nd, 1833, Saint Petersburg

77

Jørgen Herman Vogt

Norwegian civil servant, lawyer and politician, First State Councilor

*July 21st, 1784, Drammen Municipality †January 12th, 1862, Christiania

62

Ludwig Aurbacher

German author

*August 26th, 1784, Türkheim †May 25th, 1847, Munich

65

Pietro Anderloni

Italian engraver

*October 12th, 1784, Brescia †October 13th, 1849, Milan

70

Juan Mora Fernández

1st elected head of state of Costa Rica (1784-1854)

*June 12th, 1784, San José †December 16th, 1854, San José

62

Toussaint Bastard

French botanist (1784-1846)

*February 19th, 1784, Chalonnes-sur-Loire †June 27th, 1846, Chalonnes-sur-Loire

58

Sándor Kőrösi Csoma

Hungarian philologist and orientalist (1784-1842)

*March 27th, 1784, Chiuruș †April 11th, 1842, Darjeeling

72

William Yarrell

English zoologist, naturalist and bookseller

*June 3rd, 1784, St James's †September 1st, 1856, Great Yarmouth

40

Leonardo Infante

Venezuelan military personnel

*November 30th, 1784, Parroquia Chaguaramal †November 30th, 1824, Bogotá

67

Jacopo Ferretti

Italian librettist

*July 16th, 1784, Rome †March 7th, 1852, Rome

90

William Maynard Gomm

British field marshal

*November 10th, 1784, Colony of Barbados †March 15th, 1875, Brighton

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Leap year

Yes: 1784 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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