What are the important events that happened on August 2? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 2: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 2 is the 215th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 151 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 20, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,709,280 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectadecapentagon’ day.
Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 180 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,242 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 2 Historical Events
- 338 BC –A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
- 216 BC –Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
- 1377 –Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River because of drunkenness.
- 1903 –Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
- 1934 –Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
- 1937 –The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
- 1980 –A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
- 1989 –A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
- 1990 –Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
- 2011 –Three Rapid City, South Dakota officers stop a group of suspicious people on Anamosa Street. One man pulls out a revolver and fires six shots, killing one officer, mortally wounding another, and injuring the third.
Who were born on August 2?
- 1533 –Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)
- 1696 –Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
- 1815 –Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894)
- 1933 –Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Greek politician
- 1935 –Hank Cochran, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2010)
- 1948 –Andy Fairweather Low, Welsh guitarist (Amen Corner)
- 1951 –Joe Lynn Turner, American singer (Deep Purple, Rainbow)
- 1953 –Butch Patrick, American actor
- 1963 –Daniel Pelosi, American convicted murderer
- 1972 –Daniele Nardello, Italian cyclist
Who died on August 2?
- 1316 –Louis of Burgundy, Prince of Achaea (b. 1297)
- 1859 –Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
- 1890 –Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (b. 1813)
- 1913 –Ferenc Pfaff, Hungarian architect (b. 1851)
- 1939 –Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian mystic (b. 1883)
- 1973 –Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director (b. 1917)
- 1996 –Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian warlord (b. 1934)
- 2004 –Don Tosti, American violinist, composer and bandleader (b. 1923)
- 2007 –Chauncey Bailey, American journalist and editor (b. 1950)
- 2007 –Holden Roberto, Angolan politician (b. 1923)
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