August 2nd, 1805

Born on August 2nd, 1805

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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 1805

70

Eugène Schneider

French businessman and French civil law notary (1805-1875)

*March 29th, 1805, Bidestroff †November 27th, 1875, 9th arrondissement of Paris

38

Joseph Smith

Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement (1805–1844)

*December 23rd, 1805, Sharon †June 27th, 1844, Carthage

66

Hugo von Mohl

German botanist (1805–1872)

*April 8th, 1805, Stuttgart †April 1st, 1872, Tübingen

53

Alexis de Tocqueville

French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)

*July 29th, 1805, Paris †April 16th, 1859, Cannes

66

Giuseppe Mazzini

Italian nationalist activist, politician, journalist and philosopher

*June 22nd, 1805, Genoa †March 10th, 1872, Pisa

60

William Rowan Hamilton

Irish mathematician and astronomer

*August 4th, 1805, Dublin †September 2nd, 1865, Dublin

73

Frederick Smith

British entomologist (1805–1879)

*December 30th, 1805, London †February 16th, 1879

89

Ferdinand de Lesseps

French diplomat and entrepreneur, developer of the Suez Canal

*November 19th, 1805, Versailles †December 7th, 1894, Guilly

71

Carl Timoleon von Neff

Baltic German artist (1804–1876)

*October 2nd, 1805, Püssi †December 24th, 1876, Saint Petersburg

63

Thomas Graham

Chemist (1805–1869)

*December 20th, 1805, Glasgow †September 11th, 1869, London

71

John Stevens Cabot Abbott

American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, (1805-1877)

*September 19th, 1805, Brunswick †June 17th, 1877, New Haven

59

Robert Fitzroy

Royal Navy officer and scientist (1805–1865)

*July 5th, 1805, Ampton Hall †April 30th, 1865, London

73

William Lloyd Garrison

American journalist and abolitionist

*December 10th, 1805, Newburyport †May 24th, 1879, New York City

75

Louis Auguste Blanqui

French socialist and political activist (1805-1881)

*February 8th, 1805, Puget-Théniers †January 1st, 1881, Paris

68

Franz Xaver Winterhalter

German painter

*April 20th, 1805, Menzenschwand †July 8th, 1873, Frankfurt

56

Jonas Furrer

Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1805-1861)

*March 3rd, 1805, Winterthur †July 25th, 1861, Bad Ragaz

70

Marie d'Agoult

Franco-German romantic author and historian (1805-1876)

*December 31st, 1805, Frankfurt †March 5th, 1876, Paris

74

Constantino Brumidi

Italian-Greek-American historical painter (1805-1880)

*July 26th, 1805, Rome †February 19th, 1880, Washington, D.C.

220

Hilario Lagos

Argentine military personnel

*November 30th, 1805, Buenos Aires

67

Juana de Vega

Spanish writer (1805-1872)

*March 7th, 1805, A Coruña †June 22nd, 1872, A Coruña

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Public holidays on August 2nd

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1805 is a normal year and no leap year.

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