Friday August 2, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

August 2: Day of the Week

August 2, 2024 is the 215th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 151 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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Here’s the August calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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.

August 2 Historical Event(s)

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.
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.
1830
Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
1897
Anglo-Afghan wars: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand region of colonial India’s North West Frontier Province.
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.
1943
Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
1943
World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
1980
A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
1989
Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.
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?

1865
John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955)
1884
Rómulo Gallegos, 46th President of Venezuela (d. 1969)
1907
Mary Hamman, American writer (d. 1984)
1925
Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster
1951
Freddie Wadling, Swedish singer and musician (The Leather Nun, Fleshquartet)
1961
Graham Dye, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Scarlet Party, The Alan Parsons Project)
1966
Tim Wakefield, American baseball player
1968
John Stanier, American drummer Helmet
1971
Michael Hughes, Irish footballer
1976
Reyes Estévez, Spanish mid-distance runner

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