August 2nd, 1873

Born on August 2nd, 1873

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What happened on August 2nd, 1873?

August 2nd, 1873

The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Street_Hill_Railroad

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

Born on August 2nd, 1873

67

Geca Kon

Serbian publisher

*August 2nd, 1873, Csongrád †January 1st, 1941, Jabuka

Same year
Born in 1873

71

Alexis Carrel

French surgeon and biologist

*June 28th, 1873, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon †November 5th, 1944, Paris

77

Ivanoe Bonomi

Italian prime minister in 1921–22 and 1944–45

*October 18th, 1873, Mantua †April 20th, 1951, Rome

69

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Russian composer, pianist and conductor (1873–1943)

*April 1st, 1873, Starorussky Uyezd †March 28th, 1943, Beverly Hills

89

Otto Harbach

American songwriter

*August 18th, 1873, Salt Lake City †January 24th, 1963, New York City

39

Alphonse Kirchhoffer

French fencer

*December 19th, 1873, 11th arrondissement of Paris †June 30th, 1913, 5th arrondissement of Paris

81

María Goyri

Spanish hispanist

*August 29th, 1873, Bilbao †November 28th, 1954, Madrid

58

Julieta Lanteri

Argentine pharmacologist and suffragist (1873–1932)

*March 22nd, 1873, Province of Cuneo †February 23rd, 1932, Buenos Aires

67

Louis Pinck

German priest

*July 11th, 1873, Lemberg †December 8th, 1940, Saarbrücken

86

Arturo Labriola

Revolutionary syndicalist politician and journalist

*January 21st, 1873, Naples †June 23rd, 1959, Naples

83

Konstantin von Neurath

German Foreign Minister, Ambassador and Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, general and Nazi war criminal (1873-1956)

*February 2nd, 1873, Kleinglattbach †August 14th, 1956, Enzweihingen

83

Jules Rimet

Founders of association football institution (1873-1956)

*October 14th, 1873, Theuley †October 16th, 1956, Suresnes

81

Luigi Gasparotto

Italian politician (1873-1954)

*May 31st, 1873, Sacile †June 29th, 1954, Cantello

87

Lee de Forest

American inventor

*August 26th, 1873, Council Bluffs †June 30th, 1961, Hollywood

94

Ejnar Hertzsprung

Danish astronomer and chemist

*October 8th, 1873, Frederiksberg †October 21st, 1967, Roskilde

65

Feodor Chaliapin

Russian opera singer and actor (1873-1938)

*February 1st, 1873, Lisitsyn-Emelin House †April 12th, 1938, Paris

88

Otto Loewi

Jewish-German pharmacologist

*June 3rd, 1873, Frankfurt †December 25th, 1961, New York City

59

Alberto Santos-Dumont

Brazilian aviation pioneer (1873-1932)

*July 20th, 1873, Santos Dumont †July 23rd, 1932, Guarujá

77

Alfred Wiłkomirski

Polish violinist and pedagogue

*January 1st, 1873, Azov †January 1st, 1950, Łódź

50

Valery Bryusov

Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian

*December 1st, 1873, Moscow †October 9th, 1924, Moscow

67

Kyösti Kallio

Finnish politician and 4th President of Finland (1873-1940)

*April 10th, 1873, Ylivieska †December 19th, 1940, Helsinki Central Railway Station

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Public holidays on August 2nd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Romani genocide-related observances, including) which are celebrated on August 2nd.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1873 is a normal year and no leap year.

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