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August 2
(Redirected from 2 August)
August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining.
Events
400 BC-AD 1899
1900-1999
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1903 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden uprising.
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1916 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
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1934 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
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1943 - PT-109, with future president of the United States Lieutenant John F. Kennedy aboard, sinks.
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1944 - Beginning of the Treblinka uprising.
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1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
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1950 - The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was published on Yankee Stadium, New York.
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1955 - Velcro is patented.
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1964 - North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
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1967 - The second Blackwall Tunnel opened in Greenwich, London.
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1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival
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1975 - In New Orleans, Louisiana, the Superdome officially opens with an American football game between the New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers.
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1976 - An intruder breaks into Priscilla Davis's Mockingbird Lane mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. Priscilla Davis and a friend are injured while Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr are killed. T. Cullen Davis is tried and found innocent of the crime.
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1980 - Hard rock band AC/DC release Back in Black, their first album with lead singer Brian Johnson and their best-selling
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1985 - A Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas, killing 137.
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1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
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1997 - Australian ski instructor Stuart Diver is rescued as the sole survivor from the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales, Australia, in which 18 lives were lost.
Births
1500-1899
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1533 - Theodor Zwinger, medical scholar (d. 1588)
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1672 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, savant (d. 1733)
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1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect, city planner (d. 1825)
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1788 - Leopold Gmelin, chemist (d. 1853)
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1815 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack, writer (d. 1894)
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1834 - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor (d. 1904)
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1835 - Elisha Gray, American inventor and founder of Western Electric (d. 1901)
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1854 - Milan I, king of Serbia
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1865 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
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1868 - Constantine I of Greece, king of Greece (d. 1923)
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1871 - John French Sloan, artist (d. 1951)
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1892 - Jack Warner, Canadian film producer (d. 1978)
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1897 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)
1900-1999
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1900 - Helen Morgan, actress (d. 1941)
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1905 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)
- 1905 - Myrna Loy, Academy Award-winning actress (d. 1993)
- 1905 - Rudolf Prack , actor (d. 1981)
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1912 - Vladimir Zerjavic, Croat - UN statistician (d. 2001)
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1914 - Beatrice Straight, Academy Award-winning actress (Network, Poltergeist) (d. 2001)
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1915 - Gary Merrill, actor (d. 1990)
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1924 - James Baldwin, author (d. 1987)
- 1924 - Carroll O'Connor, actor (d. 2001)
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1932 - Peter O'Toole, actor: Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter
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1933 - Lorenzo Milam , author, broadcaster
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1934 - Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut
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1939 - Wes Craven, horror film director
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1941 - Doris Coley, singer, member of the Shirelles (d. 2000)
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1942 - Isabel Allende, author
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1948 - Dennis Prager - radio talk show host and author
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1951 - Lance Ito, judge in the O. J. Simpson case
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1953 - Butch Patrick, actor
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1957 - Mojo Nixon, rockabilly musician, actor
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1961 - Linda Fratianne , Olympics figure skater
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1964 - Mary-Louise Parker, actress
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1969 - Fernando Couto, football player
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1970 - Tony Amonte, NHL star, Stan Chudnovsky , engineer, vodka infuser
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1972 - Kevin Smith, actor, director, screenwriter
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1977 - Edward Furlong, actor
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1980 - Nadine O'Hare , Love of My Life beauty
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1982 - Hélder Postiga, football player
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1985 - David Bander , actor
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1992 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg , actress, Pepsi-Cola spokesperson
Deaths
400-1899
1900-1999
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1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
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1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, inventor (b. 1847)
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1923 - Warren G. Harding, 29th president of the United States (b. 1865)
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1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, general and politician (b. 1847)
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1936 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872)
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1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, founder of AMORC (b. 1883)
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1945 - Pietro Mascagni, composer (b. 1863)
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1976 - Fritz Lang, film director (b. 1890)
- 1976 - Andrea Wilborn, daughter of Priscilla Davis (b. 1964)
- 1976 - Stan Farr, TCU basketball star, boyfriend of Priscilla Davis
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1978 - Carlos Chávez, composer
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1979 - Thurman Munson, Yankees catcher
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1986 - Roy Cohn, politician, anti-Communist (b. 1927)
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1988 - Raymond Carver, writer, poet (b. 1938)
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1990 - Norman Mclean, writer (b. 1902)
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1997 - William S. Burroughs, writer (b. 1914)
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1998 - Shari Lewis, puppeteer (b. 1933)
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
External links
August 1 - August 3 - July 2 - September 2 -- listing of all days
Last updated: 08-07-2005 20:39:14
Last updated: 08-18-2005 21:38:58
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