August 2nd, 1966

Born on August 2nd, 1966

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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, 1966

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Jens Böttcher

German songwriter

*August 2nd, 1966, Hamburg

57

Tim Wakefield

American professional baseball pitcher (1966–2023)

*August 2nd, 1966, Melbourne †October 1st, 2023, Massachusetts

59

William Nadylam

French actor

*August 2nd, 1966, Montpellier

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Born in 1966

59

Jimmy Wales

Co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)

*August 7th, 1966, Huntsville

59

Diedrich Bader

American actor

*December 24th, 1966, Alexandria

59

Marcus Marin

German football player and manager

*December 13th, 1966, Hamburg

60

Lucie Bílá

Czech singer and actress

*April 7th, 1966, Otvovice

56

Sinéad O'Connor

Irish singer-songwriter and activist (1966–2023)

*December 8th, 1966, Glenageary †July 26th, 2023, London

59

David Cameron

British politician (born 1966)

*October 9th, 1966, Marylebone

59

Kiefer Sutherland

Canadian actor

*December 21st, 1966, St. Mary's Hospital

60

Olaf Thon

German association football player and manager

*May 1st, 1966, Gelsenkirchen

60

Thomas Doll

German association football manager (born 1966)

*April 9th, 1966, Malchin

60

Franco Foda

German association football player and manager

*April 23rd, 1966, Mainz

60

Bruno Labbadia

German association football player and manager

*February 8th, 1966, Darmstadt

60

Olaf Marschall

German association football player and manager (1966–)

*March 19th, 1966, Torgau

60

Urs Fischer

Swiss association football player and manager (born 1966)

*February 20th, 1966, Triengen

60

Markus Schupp

German association football player and manager

*January 7th, 1966, Idar-Oberstein

60

Thomas Häßler

German footballer

*May 30th, 1966, West Berlin

60

Stefan Mappus

German politician, former PM of Baden-Württemberg

*April 4th, 1966, Pforzheim

59

Mike Tyson

American boxer and media personality (born 1966)

*June 30th, 1966, Brooklyn

59

Daniel Schwerd

German politician

*November 3rd, 1966, Cologne

60

Marin Hinkle

American actress

*March 23rd, 1966, Dar es Salaam

59

Amélie Nothomb

Belgian Francophone writer

*July 9th, 1966, Kobe

Birthdays of famous people

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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Born on August 2nd, 1966
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1966 is a normal year and no leap year.

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