Tukuk-OS📅 August 2
17 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on August 2? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2008 — A taxi driver is murdered in Bangkok by a teenager addicted to video games leading to the Thai government banning the sale of Grand Theft Auto.
- 2007 — Raúl Iturriaga, a former deputy director of the Chilean secret police, was captured in Viña del Mar after having been on the run following a kidnapping conviction.
Raúl IturriagaDirectorate of National IntelligenceViña del Mar
- 1986 — The animated film Castle in the Sky, the first from Studio Ghibli, was released.
- 1973 — A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.
- 1971 — The English rock band the Who released Who's Next, their only album to top the UK charts.
- 1947 — Star Dust, a British South American Airways airliner, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes; its wreckage was not found until 1998.
1947 BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust accidentBritish South American AirwaysTupungato
- 1939 — Leo Szilard 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.
- 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.
California Institute of TechnologyCarl David AndersonAntimatter
- 1923 — Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack.
Calvin CoolidgePresident of the United StatesWarren G. Harding
- 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.
- 1916 — An explosion, blamed on Austro-Hungarian saboteurs, sank the Italian dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci.
Austria-HungaryDreadnoughtItalian battleship Leonardo da Vinci
- 1914 — The French army's general headquarters was activated in anticipation of war with Germany.
- 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.
- 1790 — The first United States census was officially completed, with the nation's residential population enumerated to be 3,929,214.
- 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.
- 461 — Unpopular among the Senate aristocracy for his reforming efforts, Roman emperor Majorian was deposed by Ricimer and executed five days later.
- -338 — 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.
Births
- 2006 — Héctor Fort, Spanish footballer
- 2000 — Varvara Gracheva, Russian tennis player
- 2000 — Mohammed Kudus, Ghanaian footballer
- 1999 — Anastasios Douvikas, Greek footballer
- 1999 — Mark Lee, Korean-Canadian singer
- 1999 — Joël Piroe, Dutch-Surinamese footballer
- 1997 — Austin Theory, American wrestler
- 1996 — Keston Hiura, American baseball player
- 1996 — Simone Manuel, American swimmer
- 1995 — Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player
- 1995 — Vikkstar123, English internet personality
- 1994 — Emil Krafth, Swedish footballer
Deaths
- 2023 — Nitin Chandrakant Desai, Indian art director, production designer, and film and television producer (born 1965)
- 2022 — Vin Scully, American sportscaster and game show host (born 1927)
- 2020 — Suzanne Perlman, Hungarian-Dutch visual artist (born 1922)
- 2017 — Judith Jones, American literary and cookbook editor (born 1924)
- 2016 — Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (born 1930)
- 2016 — David Huddleston, American actor (born 1930)
- 2016 — Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (born 1927)
- 2016 — Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1946)
- 2015 — Forrest Bird, American pilot and engineer (born 1921)
- 2015 — Giovanni Conso, Italian jurist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (born 1922)
- 2015 — Piet Fransen, Dutch footballer (born 1936)
- 2015 — Jack Spring, American baseball player (born 1933)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast day: Ahudemmeh (Syriac Orthodox Church).
- Christian feast day: Basil Fool for Christ (Russian Orthodox Church)
- Christian feast day: Ceferino Giménez Malla
- Christian feast day: Centola and Helen
- Christian feast day: Joan of Aza
- Christian feast day: Justin Russolillo
- Christian feast day: Peter Julian Eymard
- Christian feast day: Plegmund
- Christian feast day: Pope Stephen I
- Christian feast day: Portiuncola Indulgence ("Pardon of Assisi"), the plenary indulgence related to St. Francis of Assisi (Catholic Church).
- Christian feast day: Samuel David Ferguson (Episcopal Church)
- Christian feast day: August 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Day of Azerbaijani cinema (Azerbaijan)
- Our Lady of the Angels Day (Costa Rica)
- Paratroopers Day (Russia)
- Republic Day (North Macedonia)
- Romani genocide-related observances, including:
Roma Holocaust Memorial Day (Council of Europe, European Parliament)
Roma Holocaust Memorial DayCouncil of EuropeEuropean Parliament
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