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 214th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 151 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 20, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 487,248 hours 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 ‘dihectadecatetragon’ day.
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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 199 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 4,607 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 2 Historical Events
- 1377 –Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River because of drunkenness.
- 1830 –Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
- 1870 –Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London.
- 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.
- 1916 –World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
- 1918 –Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
- 1918 –The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
- 1923 –As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
- 1945 –World War II: the Potsdam Conference, at which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, is concluded.
- 1964 –Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy.
Who were born on August 2?
- 1868 –King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
- 1896 –Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer (d. 1960)
- 1912 –Palle Huld, Danish actor (d. 2010)
- 1934 –Valery Bykovsky, Soviet cosmonaut
- 1939 –John W. Snow, American 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
- 1947 –Massiel, Spanish singer
- 1953 –Marjo, Quebec singer
- 1963 –Laura Bennett, American architect and designer
- 1969 –Cedric Ceballos, American basketball player
- 1990 –Skylar Diggins, American basketball player
Who died on August 2?
- 1799 –Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1745)
- 1876 –Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
- 1913 –Ferenc Pfaff, Hungarian architect (b. 1851)
- 1920 –Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (b. 1891)
- 1939 –Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian mystic (b. 1883)
- 1973 –Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director (b. 1917)
- 1979 –Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)
- 1992 –Michel Berger, French singer and songwriter (b. 1947)
- 2001 –Ron Townson, American singer (The 5th Dimension) (b. 1933)
- 2003 –Don Estelle, British actor (b. 1933)
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