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
- 1903 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Macedonians against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden uprising.
- 1934 - Gleichschaltung:
Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of
Germany.
- 1944 - Beginning of the Treblinka uprising.
- 1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany,
concludes.
- 1955 - Velcro patented.
- 1967 - Second Blackwall
Tunnel opened in Greenwich, London
- 1975 - In New
Orleans, Louisiana, the Superdome officially opens with an American football game between the New Orleans Saints and Houston
Oilers.
- 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.
- 1980 - Hard rock band AC/DC release Back in Black, their first
album with lead singer Brian Johnson and their best-selling
- 1985 - A Delta Air Lines
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
crashes at Dallas/Fort
Worth International Airport in Texas, killing 137.
- 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
- 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
- 1533 - Theodor Zwinger,
medical scholar (d. 1588)
- 1672 - Johann
Jakob Scheuchzer, savant (d. 1733)
- 1754 - Pierre
Charles L'Enfant, architect, city planner (d. 1825)
- 1788 - Leopold Gmelin,
chemist (d. 1853)
- 1815 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack, writer (d. 1894)
- 1834 - Frédéric
Bartholdi, sculptor (d. 1904)
- 1854 - Milan I, king of Serbia
- 1868 - Constantine I of Greece, king of Greece (d. 1923)
- 1871 - John Sloan, artist (d. 1951)
- 1892 - Jack Warner, film producer
(d. 1978
- 1897 - Max
Weber, Swiss Federal
Councilor (d. 1974)
1900-1999
- 1900 - Helen Morgan, actress (d. 1941)
- 1905 - Karl Amadeus
Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)
- 1905 - Myrna Loy, Academy
Award-winning actress (d. 1993)
- 1905 - Rudolf Prack, actor (d.
1981)
- 1912 - Vladimir
Zerjavic, Croat - UN statistician (d. 2001)
- 1914 - Beatrice
Straight, Academy Award-winning actress (Network, Poltergeist) (d. 2001)
- 1915 - Gary Merrill, actor (d.
1990)
- 1924 - James
Baldwin, author (d. 1987)
- 1924 - Carroll O'Connor, actor (d. 2001)
- 1932 - Peter O'Toole, actor:
Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter
- 1934 - Valery Bykovsky,
cosmonaut
- 1939 - Wes Craven, horror film director
- 1941 - Doris Coley, singer, member
of the Shirelles (d. 2000)
- 1942 - Isabel Allende,
author
- 1948 - Dennis Prager - radio talk show host and author
- 1951 - Lance Ito, judge in the O. J. Simpson case
- 1953 - Butch Patrick,
actor
- 1957 - Mojo Nixon, rockabilly musician, actor
- 1961 - Linda Fratianne, Olympics figure skater
- 1964 - Mary-Louise
Parker, actress
- 1969 - Fernando Couto,
football player
- 1970 - Tony Amonte, NHL star, Stan Chudnovsky, engineer, vodka
infuser
- 1972 - Kevin Smith, actor, director, screenwriter
- 1977 - Edward Furlong,
actor
- 1982 - Hélder Postiga,
football player
- 1992 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg, actress, Pepsi-Cola
spokesperson
Deaths
400-1899
1900-1999
- 1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian
tenor (b. 1873)
- 1922 - Alexander
Graham Bell, inventor (b. 1847)
- 1923 - Warren G.
Harding, 29th president of the United States (b. 1865)
- 1934 - Paul von
Hindenburg, general and politician (b. 1847)
- 1936 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872)
- 1939 - Harvey Spencer
Lewis, founder of AMORC (b. 1883)
- 1945 - Pietro Mascagni,
composer (b. 1863)
- 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
- 1978 - Carlos Chávez,
composer
- 1979 - Thurman Munson,
Yankees catcher
- 1986 - Roy Cohn, politician,
anti-Communist (b. 1927)
- 1988 - Raymond Carver,
writer, poet (b. 1938)
- 1990 - Norman Mclean, writer
(b. 1902)
- 1997 - William S.
Burroughs, writer (b. 1914)
- 1998 - Shari Lewis, puppeteer (b.
1933)
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
August 1 - August 3 - July 2 - September 2 -- listing of all days
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