2 August
Notable Births
Varvara Gracheva
b. 2000
French tennis player (born 2000)
Mohammed Kudus
b. 2000
Ghanaian footballer (born 2000)
Mark (rapper)
b. 1999
Canadian rapper (born 1999)
Austin Theory
b. 1997
American professional wrestler (born 1997)
Keston Hiura
b. 1996
American baseball infielder (born 1996)
Simone Manuel
b. 1996
American swimmer (born 1996)
Kristaps Porziņģis
b. 1995
Latvian basketball player (born 1995)
Vikkstar123
b. 1995
English influencer (born 1995)
Cr1TiKaL
b. 1994
American YouTuber and streamer (born 1994)
Laura Pigossi
b. 1994
Brazilian tennis player (born 1994)
Laremy Tunsil
b. 1994
American football player (born 1994)
Gael Bussa
b. 1993
Congolese politician
Joey Florez
b. 1993
American scholar
Charli XCX
b. 1992
British singer (born 1992)
Evander Kane
b. 1991
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Vitalia Diatchenko
b. 1990
Russian professional tennis player (born 1990)
Skylar Diggins
b. 1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Nacer Chadli
b. 1989
Belgian footballer (born 1989)
Rob Kwiet
b. 1988
Canadian ice hockey player
Golden Tate
b. 1988
American football player (born 1988)
Notable Deaths
Nitin Chandrakant Desai
d. 2023
Indian art director (1965–2023)
Vin Scully
d. 2022
American sportscaster (1927–2022)
Suzanne Perlman
d. 2020
Dutch Hungarian painter (1922–2020)
Judith Jones
d. 2017
American book editor (1924–2017)
Terence Bayler
d. 2016
New Zealand actor (1930–2016)
David Huddleston
d. 2016
American film and television actor (1930–2016)
Franciszek Macharski
d. 2016
Polish cardinal (1927–2016)
Ahmed Zewail
d. 2016
Egyptian and American chemist (1946–2016)
Forrest Bird
d. 2015
American physician
Giovanni Conso
d. 2015
Italian politician (1922–2015)
Piet Fransen
d. 2015
Dutch footballer
Jack Spring
d. 2015
American baseball player (1933–2015)
Barbara Prammer
d. 2014
Austrian politician (1954–2014)
James Thompson (crime writer)
d. 2014
American-Finnish crime writer (1964–2014)
Julius L. Chambers
d. 2013
American lawyer, civil rights leader and educator
Alla Kushnir
d. 2013
Soviet-Israeli chess player and classicist (1941–2013)
Jimmy Jones (singer)
d. 2012
American singer-songwriter (1930–2012)
John Keegan
d. 2012
English military historian (1934–2012)
Bernd Meier
d. 2012
German footballer (1972–2012)
Marguerite Piazza
d. 2012
American opera singer and philanthropist
On This Day in History
All 49 ›2014
At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.
2014 Kunshan explosion
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.
Air France Flight 358
1999
The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
Gaisal train collision
1991
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-43 to deploy the TDRS-5 satellite.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
1990
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait: Iraq invades Kuwait and temporarily establishes the Republic of Kuwait puppet state on the orders of Saddam Hussein, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
1989
Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
Pakistan
1989
A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
1989 Valvettiturai massacre
1985
Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
Delta Air Lines Flight 191
1982
The Helsinki Metro, the first rapid transit system of Finland, is opened to the general public.
Helsinki Metro
1980
A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
Bologna massacre
1973
A flash fire kills 50 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
Summerland disaster
1968
An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
1968 Casiguran earthquake
1947
A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
British South American Airways
1945
World War II: The Potsdam Conference ends.
Potsdam Conference
1944
ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in North Macedonia.
Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia
1944
World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
Convoy HX 300
1943
The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
The Holocaust
1943
World War II: After the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri, Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.
World War II
1939
Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
Albert Einstein
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.
Marihuana Tax Act of 1937