August 2nd, 1982

Born on August 2nd, 1982

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 15,000 days old!

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What happened on August 2nd, 1982?

August 2nd, 1982

The Helsinki Metro, the first rapid transit system of Finland, is opened to the general public.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki_Metro

What else happened on August 2nd?

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.

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, 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, 1945

World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.

August 2nd, 1943

World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 2nd

Born on August 2nd, 1982

41

Luka Elsner

Slovenian footballer

*August 2nd, 1982, Ljubljana

41

Hélder Postiga

Portuguese footballer

*August 2nd, 1982, Vila do Conde

41

Grady Sizemore

American professional baseball outfielder

*August 2nd, 1982, Seattle

41

Kerry Rhodes

American football player

*August 2nd, 1982, Birmingham

41

Devi Sri Prasad

Indian composer and singer

*August 2nd, 1982, Vedurupaka

41

Li Zhihai

Chinese footballer

*August 2nd, 1982, Qingyuan

41

Karl Dickson

English rugby player and referee

*August 2nd, 1982, Salisbury

41

Kristi Pinderi

Albanian LGBT activist

*August 2nd, 1982, Pogradec

41

Satoshi Nagano

Japanese association football player

*August 2nd, 1982, Fukuoka Prefecture

41

Frida Broström

Association football player

*August 2nd, 1982, Sweden

41

Kota Mizuno

Japanese basketball coach

*August 2nd, 1982, Tokyo

41

Ruslaan Mumtaz

Indian actor, born 1982

*August 2nd, 1982, Mumbai

41

David Bakeš

Czech snowboarder

*August 2nd, 1982, Prague

41

Linda Heitmann

German politician

*August 2nd, 1982, Hamburg

41

Anton Silayev

Composer (born 1982)

*August 2nd, 1982, Moscow

41

Will Whitticker

American football player

*August 2nd, 1982, Evansville

41

Park Seon-mi

South Korean field hockey player

*August 2nd, 1982, Seoul

41

Michelle Walsh

Irish association football player

*August 2nd, 1982, Dublin

41

Dmitri Kovalenko

Russian footballer

*August 2nd, 1982, Sarov

41

Alex Andino

Honduran footballer

*August 2nd, 1982, Olanchito

41

Błażej Radler

Polish footballer

*August 2nd, 1982, Rydułtowy

41

Ilya Solarev

Kazakhstani ice hockey player

*August 2nd, 1982, Perm

41

Ahmad Ali Jaber

Iraqi footballer

*August 2nd, 1982, Baghdad

41

Ross Skeate

South African rugby union footballer

*August 2nd, 1982, Johannesburg

41

Oleg Shamaev

Uzbekistani alpine skier

*August 2nd, 1982, Chirchiq

41

Solen Désert-Mariller

French athlete

*August 2nd, 1982, Brest

41

Nikki Symmons

Cricketer

*August 2nd, 1982, Dublin

41

Joakim Strand

Finnish politician

*August 2nd, 1982, Turku

41

Stef Wils

Belgian footballer

*August 2nd, 1982, Turnhout

41

Wataru Kitahara

Futsal player

*August 2nd, 1982, Tokyo

41

Cristiano Souza

Brazilian martial artist

*August 2nd, 1982, Brazil

41

Lee In-Jong

South Korean taekwondo practitioner

*August 2nd, 1982, Gyeonggi

41

Maciej Kuś

Figure skater

*August 2nd, 1982, Sosnowiec

41

Chris Blackburn

British footballer (born 1982)

*August 2nd, 1982, Chester

41

Désirée Giorgetti

Italian actress

*August 2nd, 1982, Milan

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 2nd?

46

Florian Stetter

German actor

*August 2nd, 1977, Munich

31

Charli XCX

English singer-songwriter

*August 2nd, 1992, Cambridge

35

Arun Vishnu

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Kozhikode

29

Tang Yuanting

Chinese badminton player

*August 2nd, 1994, Nanning

27

Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo

Indonesian badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Banyuwangi

48

Xu Huaiwen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1975, Guiyang

42

Tim Murtagh

Irish cricketer

*August 2nd, 1981, Lambeth

35

Rosario Maddaloni

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Torre del Greco

40

Huston Street

American baseball player

*August 2nd, 1983, Austin

34

Xing Aiying

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1989, Jiangsu

32

Niclas Nøhr

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1991, Vordingborg

31

Kira Kattenbeck

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1992, Steinfurt

30

Tam Chun Hei

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1993, Hong Kong

28

Victor Svendsen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1995, Hjørring

55

Thomas Lund

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1968, Aarhus

38

Simon Niepmann

Swiss rower

*August 2nd, 1985, Lörrach

39

Brandon Browner

American and Canadian football player, defensive back, cornerback

*August 2nd, 1984, Los Angeles

27

Citra Putri Sari Dewi

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Jakarta

43

Guillaume Lacour

French footballer

*August 2nd, 1980, Courbevoie

24

Elavenil Valarivan

Indian sport shooter

*August 2nd, 1999, Cuddalore

Same year
Born in 1982

41

Nicki Minaj

Trinidadian-born rapper, singer, songwriter and actress (born 1982)

*December 8th, 1982, Saint James

41

Lee Chong Wei

Malaysian badminton player

*October 21st, 1982, Bagan Serai

41

John Mulaney

American actor and comedian

*August 26th, 1982, Chicago

42

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen

Danish actress

*January 16th, 1982, Hillerød

41

Louis Bell

American record producer

*May 27th, 1982, Quincy

41

Miss Li

Swedish singer and songwriter

*July 21st, 1982, Borlänge

42

Huang Sui

Badminton player

*January 8th, 1982, Hunan

42

Inez Bjørg David

German actress

*February 6th, 1982, Aarhus

42

Kamila Augustyn

Badminton player

*January 14th, 1982, Słupsk

42

Dwyane Wade

American former basketball player

*January 17th, 1982, Chicago

41

Jussie Smollett

American actor and singer

*June 21st, 1982, Santa Rosa

41

Aki Akao

Badminton player

*October 20th, 1982, Hita

42

Ekaterina Ananina

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1982, Perm

41

Christoph Letkowski

German actor and musician

*June 16th, 1982, Halle (Saale)

42

Verena Bentele

German paralympic biathlete and politician (SPD)

*February 28th, 1982, Lindau

41

Vanessa Bryant

American philanthropist

*May 5th, 1982, Huntington Beach

35

Anthony Delhalle

French motorcycle racer

*January 11th, 1982, Chartres †March 9th, 2017, Circuit Paul Armagnac

42

Jessica Biel

American actress

*March 3rd, 1982, Ely

42

Nivea

American R&B singer

*March 24th, 1982, Savannah

41

Leticia Brunati

Argentinian beach handball coach

*May 28th, 1982, Buenos Aires

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No: With 365 days 1982 is a normal year and no leap year.

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