August 2nd, 1869

Born on August 2nd, 1869

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What happened on August 2nd, 1869?

August 2nd, 1869

Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.

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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 1869

78

Mahatma Gandhi

Indian independence activist (1869–1948)

*October 2nd, 1869, Porbandar †January 30th, 1948, Gandhi Smriti

67

Karl Hampe

German historian of medieval age (1869-1936)

*February 3rd, 1869, Bremen †February 14th, 1936, Heidelberg

84

Henri Matisse

French artist (1869–1954)

*December 31st, 1869, Le Cateau-Cambrésis †November 3rd, 1954, Nice

81

André Gide

French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)

*November 22nd, 1869, Paris †February 19th, 1951, Paris

70

Emma Goldman

Russian anarchist

*June 27th, 1869, Kaunas †May 14th, 1940, Toronto

71

Neville Chamberlain

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940

*March 18th, 1869, Birmingham †November 9th, 1940, Reading

91

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury

British Army general (1869-1961)

*August 31st, 1869, England †March 25th, 1961, England

89

Antonio Royo Villanova

Spanish university professor

*June 12th, 1869, Zaragoza †November 7th, 1958, Calle de Fortuny

78

Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

King of Italy from 1900 to 1946

*November 11th, 1869, Naples †December 28th, 1947, Alexandria

62

Tyrone Power Sr.

English-born American stage and screen actor (1869–1931)

*May 2nd, 1869, London †December 23rd, 1931, Los Angeles

73

Antonino Anile

Italian poet (1869-1943)

*November 20th, 1869, Pizzo †September 26th, 1943, Raiano

87

Miloje Vasić

Serbian archaeologist, historian and art critic (1869-1956)

*September 3rd, 1869, Požeženo †November 4th, 1956, Belgrade

41

William Vaughn Moody

United States dramatist and poet (1869-1910)

*July 8th, 1869, Spencer †October 17th, 1910, Colorado Springs

61

Fritz Pregl

Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1869-1930)

*September 3rd, 1869, Ljubljana †December 13th, 1930, Graz

69

Christian Lous Lange

Norwegian diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize recipient (1869-1938)

*September 17th, 1869, Stavanger †December 11th, 1938, Oslo

66

Komitas

Ottoman Armenian priest, musicologist, composer and vardapet (1869–1935)

*September 26th, 1869, Kütahya †October 22nd, 1935, Paris

72

Hans Spemann

German embryologist

*June 27th, 1869, Stuttgart †September 9th, 1941, Freiburg im Breisgau

80

Karl Seitz

President of Austria (1869-1950)

*September 4th, 1869, Vienna †February 3rd, 1950, Vienna

72

Adam von Au

German politician

*December 24th, 1869, Huchenfeld †July 1st, 1942

72

Hjalmar Söderberg

Swedish writer

*July 2nd, 1869, Stockholm †October 14th, 1941, Copenhagen

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Public holidays on August 2nd

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1869 is a normal year and no leap year.

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