August 2nd, 1792

Born on August 2nd, 1792

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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 1792

29

Percy Bysshe Shelley

British Romantic poet (1792–1822)

*August 4th, 1792, Horsham †July 8th, 1822, La Spezia

74

Jacques Ignace Hittorff

French architect (1792-1867)

*August 20th, 1792, Cologne †March 25th, 1867, 9th arrondissement of Paris

85

Pius IX

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878

*May 13th, 1792, Senigallia †February 7th, 1878, Apostolic Palace

75

Joshua Alder

British zoologist (1792-1867)

*January 1st, 1792, Newcastle upon Tyne †January 1st, 1867, Newcastle upon Tyne

51

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis

French mathematician, mechanical engineer, and scientist (*1792 – †1843)

*May 21st, 1792, Paris †September 19th, 1843, Paris

72

George M. Dallas

Vice president of the United States from 1845 to 1849

*July 10th, 1792, Philadelphia †December 31st, 1864, Philadelphia

57

Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen

Queen of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1837

*August 13th, 1792, Meiningen †December 2nd, 1849, Bentley Priory

76

Thaddeus Stevens

American statesman (1792–1868)

*April 4th, 1792, Danville †August 11th, 1868, Washington, D.C.

49

Francisco Morazán

President of Federal Republic of Central America (1830-1839)

*October 3rd, 1792, Tegucigalpa †September 15th, 1842, San José

81

Johann Friedrich Bruch

German theologian

*December 13th, 1792, Pirmasens †July 22nd, 1874, Strasbourg

82

Johann Christoph Kröger

German educationist (1792-1874)

*February 4th, 1792, Hamburg †June 24th, 1874, Hamburg

74

Floride Calhoun

Second Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1832

*February 15th, 1792, Charleston †July 25th, 1866, Pendleton

80

Rudecindo Alvarado

Argentinian general

*March 1st, 1792, Salta †June 22nd, 1872, Salta

92

Leopold Schoeller

German entrepreneur

*June 10th, 1792, Schleiden †December 18th, 1884, Düren

60

Anton Bernhard Fürstenau

German flautist and composer (1792-1852)

*October 20th, 1792, Münster †November 18th, 1852, Dresden

83

Virginie Ancelot

French writer and painter (1792-1875)

*March 15th, 1792, Dijon †March 20th, 1875, 7th arrondissement of Paris

79

Martin Ohm

German mathematician (1792-1872)

*May 6th, 1792, Erlangen †April 1st, 1872, Berlin

56

Frederick Marryat

British naval officer and novelist (1792-1848)

*July 10th, 1792, London †August 9th, 1848, Langham

72

Diego de Argumosa

Spanish physician (1792-1865)

*July 7th, 1792, Villapresente †April 23rd, 1865, Torrelavega

77

Charles Delucena Meigs

Obstetrician

*February 19th, 1792, St. George's Parish †June 22nd, 1869, Philadelphia

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Leap year

Yes: 1792 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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