August 2nd, 1788

Born on August 2nd, 1788

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

Born on August 2nd, 1788

64

Leopold Gmelin

German chemist (1788–1853)

*August 2nd, 1788, Göttingen †April 13th, 1853, Heidelberg

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36

Lord Byron

English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)

*January 22nd, 1788, City of Westminster †April 19th, 1824, Missolonghi

72

Arthur Schopenhauer

German philosopher (1788–1860)

*February 22nd, 1788, Gdańsk †September 21st, 1860, Frankfurt

74

Boniface de Castellane

Marshal of France (1788-1862)

*March 26th, 1788, Paris †September 16th, 1862, 2nd arrondissement of Lyon

50

Godefroy Engelmann

French-German lithographer (1788-1839)

*August 17th, 1788, Mulhouse †April 25th, 1839, Mulhouse

39

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

French engineer and physicist (1788-1827)

*May 10th, 1788, Broglie †July 14th, 1827, Ville-d'Avray

63

Margaret Taylor

First Lady of the United States from 1849 to 1850

*September 21st, 1788, Calvert County †August 14th, 1852, Mississippi

90

Sarah Josepha Hale

American writer and editor (1788–1879)

*October 13th, 1788, Newport †April 30th, 1879, Philadelphia

52

Theodore Hook

British writer

*September 22nd, 1788, London †August 24th, 1841, Fulham

71

Walenty Zwierkowski

*February 20th, 1788, Mokrzesz †December 15th, 1859, 10th arrondissement of Paris

89

Antoine César Becquerel

French scientist and pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena (1788-1878)

*March 7th, 1788, Châtillon-Coligny †January 18th, 1878, 5th arrondissement of Paris

58

Peter Dillon

Sea captain (1788-1847)

*June 15th, 1788, Martinique †February 9th, 1847, former 12th arrondissement of Paris

66

Carlos de Borbón y Borbón-Parma

Infante of Spain (1788–1855)

*March 29th, 1788, Aranjuez †March 10th, 1855, Trieste

86

Johann Peter Pixis

German pianist and composer

*February 10th, 1788, Mannheim †December 22nd, 1874, Baden-Baden

78

Pedro Ferré

Argentinian politician

*June 29th, 1788, Corrientes †January 21st, 1867, Buenos Aires

53

Joseph Kopp

German classical philologist

*November 16th, 1788, Lohberg †July 7th, 1842, Erlangen

55

Henry Sass

British artist (1788-1844)

*April 24th, 1788, London †January 1st, 1844, London

61

Adoniram Judson

American missionary (1788-1850)

*August 9th, 1788, Malden †April 12th, 1850, Bay of Bengal

70

Karl von Abel

Bavarian statesman (1788-1859)

*September 17th, 1788, Wetzlar †September 3rd, 1859, Munich

63

Esprit Requien

French naturalist (1788-1851)

*May 6th, 1788, Avignon †May 30th, 1851, Bastia

77

Aloys Schmitt

German composer, pianist and music teacher

*August 26th, 1788, Erlenbach am Main †July 25th, 1866, Frankfurt

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Leap year

Yes: 1788 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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