Saturday August 2, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

is the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are until the end of the year. The day of the week is .

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.

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

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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.

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, months, and days ago
  • months since then
  • is in the st week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

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.
Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London.
The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco’s famous cable car system.
Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
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.
ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy.
Three Rapid City, South Dakota officers stop a group of suspicious people on Anamosa Street. One man pulls out a revolver and fires six shots, killing one officer, mortally wounding another, and injuring the third.

Who were born on ?

1533
Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)
Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894)
James Baldwin, American writer (d. 1987)
Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster
Jim Capaldi, British drummer and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
Andy Fairweather Low, Welsh guitarist (Amen Corner)
Joe Lynn Turner, American singer (Deep Purple, Rainbow)
Reyn Ouwehand, Dutch C=64 Composer
Mineiro, Brazilian footballer
Ivica Banović, Croatian footballer

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