August 2nd, 1997

Born on August 2nd, 1997

Age in days, weeks and months
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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, 1997

28

Clément Berthet

French cyclist

*August 2nd, 1997, Pierre-Bénite

28

Austin Theory

American professional wrestler

*August 2nd, 1997, McDonough

28

Triston McKenzie

Baseball player (1997-)

*August 2nd, 1997, Brooklyn

28

Phillip Sami

Australian rugby league footballer

*August 2nd, 1997, Ipswich

28

Esmee de Graaf

Dutch association football player

*August 2nd, 1997, Bunschoten

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Born in 1997

29

Zheng Siwei

Chinese badminton player

*February 26th, 1997, Wenzhou

28

Zara Larsson

Swedish singer and songwriter

*December 16th, 1997, Solna Municipality

28

Chirag Shetty

Indian badminton player

*July 4th, 1997, Mumbai

28

Young Miko

Puerto Rican rapper, singer, songwriter and former footballer

*November 8th, 1997, Añasco

29

Bad Gyal

Spanish singer, songwriter, DJ and model

*March 7th, 1997, Vilassar de Mar

28

Apache 207

German rapper

*October 23rd, 1997, Ludwigshafen

29

Victor Leksell

Swedish singer

*April 4th, 1997, Torslanda

28

Megan Moroney

American country music singer

*October 9th, 1997, Savannah

28

Dardan

German rapper

*October 2nd, 1997, Stuttgart

29

Bella Poarch

American singer and social media personality

*February 9th, 1997, Philippines

29

Becky G

American singer and actress

*March 2nd, 1997, Inglewood

28

Marion Borras

French bicycle racer

*November 24th, 1997, Pontcharra

29

Dechapol Puavaranukroh

Thai badminton player

*May 20th, 1997, Chonburi

29

Li Yinhui

Chinese badminton player

*March 11th, 1997, Wuhan

29

Omah Lay

Nigerian singer

*May 19th, 1997, Rivers State

29

Princesa Alba

Chilean singer

*February 16th, 1997, Santiago

28

Leony

German singer-songwriter

*June 25th, 1997, Chammünster

29

Chloë Grace Moretz

American actress (born 1997)

*February 10th, 1997, Atlanta

28

Charles Leclerc

Monegasque racing driver

*October 16th, 1997, Monte Carlo

28

Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani children's education activist

*July 12th, 1997, Mingora

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.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on August 2nd, 1997
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1997 is a normal year and no leap year.

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