August 2nd, 2005

Born on August 2nd, 2005

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 7,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 369 days, exactly on June 28th, 2027, people who were born on August 2nd, 2005 will be 8,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on August 2nd, 2005?

August 2nd, 2005

Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames, leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_358

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 2005

21

Nithya Sre Sivan

Indian Paralympic athlete

*January 7th, 2005, Karur

20

Sombr

American singer-songwriter

*July 5th, 2005, New York City

21

FloyyMenor

Chilean singer-songwriter

*June 14th, 2005, Vicuña

21

Roxy Dekker

Dutch singer-songwriter

*January 12th, 2005, Amsterdam

21

IShowSpeed

American YouTuber and online streamer

*January 21st, 2005, Cincinnati

20

Alysa Liu

American figure skater

*August 8th, 2005, Clovis

21

Félix Bossuet

French actor

*February 23rd, 2005, Paris

21

Alexandria Villaseñor

American climate activist

*May 18th, 2005, Davis

20

Leonor, Princess of Asturias

38th princess of Asturias and heiress to the Spanish throne

*October 31st, 2005, Madrid

21

Brooke McIntosh

Figure skater

*January 5th, 2005, Toronto

21

Dafne Keen

Spanish and British actress

*January 4th, 2005, Madrid

21

Arda Güler

Turkish association football player (born 2005)

*February 25th, 2005, Altındağ

21

Cian Shields

British racing driver

*March 7th, 2005, Glasgow

20

Lia McHugh

American actress (born 2005)

*November 18th, 2005, Pittsburgh

20

Jakub Menšík

Czech tennis player

*September 1st, 2005, Prostějov

21

Mattia Furlani

Italian athlete

*February 7th, 2005, Marino

21

Arthur Vermeeren

Belgian association football player (born 2005)

*February 7th, 2005, Lier

21

Fermín Aldeguer

Spanish motorcycle road racer

*April 5th, 2005, Murcia

20

Pierce Gagnon

American child actor

*July 25th, 2005, Atlanta

21

Roksana Węgiel

Polish singer

*January 11th, 2005, Jasło

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, 2005
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 2005 is a normal year and no leap year.

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