The 2nt o August is the 214t day o the year (215t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 151 days ti come.
Events
1610 : Hudson Bay , seen here frae space 1876 : Dead Man's Hand 1980 : Bologna bomb attack1274 - Edward I o Ingland returns fre the Nint Crusade an is crouned Keeng.
1610 - Henry Hudson sails intae what is nou kent as Hudson Bay , Canadae .
1830 - Charles X o Fraunce abdicates.
1858 - The colony o Breetish Columbie is creatit.
1874 - Iceland celebrates 1000 year o settlement.
1876 - American Wastren figur Wild Bill Hickok is shot deed while playin poker in Deadwood, Sooth Dakota . The caird combination he supposedly held is nou kent as "Dead Man's Hand".
1914 - Warld War I : Germany occupies Luxembourg .
1922 - A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic o Cheenae , killin 50,000 fowk.
1923 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30t Preses o the Unitit States after the daith o Warren G. Harding .
1934 - German Preses Paul von Hindenburg dies; Adolf Hitler becomes Führer o Germany .
1945 - The Potsdam Conference o Allied leaders ends - it's tae decide the futur o a defeatit Germany frae Warld War II .
1973 - A fire at the Summerland amusement centre in Douglas, Isle o Man , kills 51 fowk.
1980 - Richt-wing extremists detonate a bomb at Bologna train station in Italy , killin 85 fowk.
1989 - Pakistan is readmittit tae the Commonweel o Naitions .
1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait .
2000 - Israel 's Knesset is dissolved for elections efter failed peace talks.
2005 - Air France Flicht 358 crash-lands at Pearson Internaitional Airport in Toronto . All on baird survive.
2007 - Crews o the submarines Mir 1 an Mir 2 plant the Roushie banner unner the Airctic Ocean .
2018 - The first multi-sport European Championships , co-hostit bi Glesga an Berlin , stairt.
Births
Isabel Allende Isabel Pantoja 1696 - Mahmud I , Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754 )
1834 - Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi , French sculptor (d. 1904 )
1858 - Emma o Waldeck an Pyrmont , Queen Consort an Regent o the Netherlands (d. 1934 )
1868 - Constantine I o Greece (d. 1923 )
1872 - Frank Barrett , Scots fitbawer (d. 1907 )
1915 - William Gear , Scots penter (d. 1997 )
1923 - Shimon Peres , 9t Preses o Israel (d. 2016 )
1924 - James Baldwin , American writer (d. 1987 )
1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla , Argentine militar leader (d. 2013 )
1926 - John Prentice , Scots fitbawer (d. 2006 )
1932 - Peter O'Toole , Erse-Breetish actor (d. 2013 )
1935 - Alex Parker , Scots fitbawer (d. 2010 )
1937 - Jim McLean , Scots fitbawer
1939 - Wes Craven , American film director (d. 2015 )
1942 - Isabel Allende , Chilean-American writer
1947 - Massiel , Spaingie sangster
1953 - Donnie Munro , Scots muisicker an sangster (Runrig )
1954 - Ken MacLeod , Scots writer
1956 - Isabel Pantoja , Spaingie sangster
1958 - Elaine C. Smith , Scots actress an comedienne
1964 - Mary-Louise Parker , American actress
1968 - Stefan Effenberg , German fitbawer
1969 - Angélica Rivera , Mexican actress an First Lady
1972 - Carol Monaghan , Scots politeecian
1976 - Sam Worthington , Inglis-Australie actor
1982 - Hélder Postiga , Portuguese fitbawer
1989 - Nacer Chadli , Belgian fitbawer
1992 - Charli XCX , Inglis sangster an sangwriter Daiths
1923 : Memorial tae Warren G. Harding 640 - Pape Severinus
686 - Pape John V
1100 - William II o Ingland (b. 1056 )
1589 - Henry III o Fraunce (b. 1551 )
1788 - Thomas Gainsborough , Inglis penter (b. 1727 )
1799 - Pape Pius VI (b. 1717 )
1876 - Wild Bill Hickok , American Wastren figur (b. 1837 )
1895 - Joseph Thomson , Scots geologist an splorer (b. 1858 )
1921 - Enrico Caruso , Italian tenor (b. 1873 )
1922 - Alexander Graham Bell , Scots inventor (b. 1847 )
1923 - Warren G. Harding , 29t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1865 )
1934 - Paul von Hindenburg , Preses o Germany (b. 1847 )
1945 - Pietro Mascagni , Italian componer (b. 1863 )
1976 - Fritz Lang , Austrick film director (b. 1890 )
1997 - William S. Burroughs , American novelist (b. 1914 )
2015 - Sammy Cox , Scots ftibawer (b. 1924 )
2016 - Ahmed Zewail , Egyptian chemist (b. 1946 ) Halidays
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