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Day Of The Week: August 2

What day of the week?

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

  • 1610 –
    Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
  • 1790 –
    The first US Census is conducted.
  • 1798 –
    French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
  • 1932 –
    The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
  • 1939 –
    Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.
  • 1944 –
    ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
  • 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.
  • 1989 –
    Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.
  • 1990 –
    Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

Who were born on August 2?

  • 1703 –
    Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)
  • 1834 –
    Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
  • 1897 –
    Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)
  • 1935 –
    Hank Cochran, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2010)
  • 1943 –
    Max Wright, American actor
  • 1953 –
    Butch Patrick, American actor
  • 1959 –
    Victoria Jackson, American comedian
  • 1974 –
    Phil Williams, Radio 5live Presenter
  • 1980 –
    Ivica Banović, Croatian footballer
  • 1982 –
    Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer

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