Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: August 2
August 2, 2025 is the 214th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 151 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Leo is your zodiac sign. Peridot is your modern birthstone. Diamond is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: August 2
- 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.
- 1869 –Japan’s samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
- 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.
- 1943 –Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
- 1973 –A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
- 1985 –Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
- 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.
- 2005 –Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.
Who were born on August 2?
- 1672 –Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
- 1882 –Red Ames, American baseball player (d. 1936)
- 1884 –Rómulo Gallegos, 46th President of Venezuela (d. 1969)
- 1926 –Betsy Bloomingdale, American socialite
- 1947 –Massiel, Spanish singer
- 1949 –Bertalan Farkas, Hungarian cosmonaut
- 1951 –Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
- 1956 –Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer
- 1957 –Mojo Nixon, American singer, lyricist and actor
- 1975 –Ingrid Rubio, Spanish actress
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