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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 attack

1274 - 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

Naitional Day o North Macedonie
Our Lady o the Angels Day (Costa Rica)
Paratroopers Day (Roushie)
Emancipation Day (Bahamas)