August 2nd, 2139

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What 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.

August 2nd, 1939

Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.

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

Birthdays and future age on August 2nd, 2139

147

Charli XCX

English singer-songwriter

*August 2nd, 1992, Cambridge

162

Florian Stetter

German actor

*August 2nd, 1977, Munich

151

Arun Vishnu

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Kozhikode

145

Tang Yuanting

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1994, Nanning

143

Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo

Indonesian badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Banyuwangi

164

Xu Huaiwen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1975, Guiyang

171

Thomas Lund

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1968, Aarhus

148

Niclas Nøhr

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1991, Vordingborg

147

Kira Kattenbeck

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1992, Steinfurt

179

Bobby Ertanto

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1960, Surabaya

150

Xing Aiying

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1989, Jiangsu

144

Victor Svendsen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1995, Hjørring

146

Xiong Rui

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1993, Xiangtan

146

Tam Chun Hei

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1993, Hong Kong

151

Rosario Maddaloni

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Torre del Greco

143

Citra Putri Sari Dewi

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Jakarta

140

Elavenil Valarivan

Indian sport shooter

*August 2nd, 1999, Cuddalore

175

Mary-Louise Parker

American actress (born 1964)

*August 2nd, 1964, Fort Jackson

184

Muriel Robin

French actress and comedian

*August 2nd, 1955, Montbrison

171

Stefan Effenberg

German association football player

*August 2nd, 1968, Niendorf

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