2 August

The **2nt o August** is the 214t day o the year (215t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 151 days ti come.

## Events

* 1274 - Edward I o Ingland returns fre the Nint Crusade an is crouned Keeng.
* 1610 - Henry Hudson sails intae what is nou kent as Hudson Bay, Canadae.
* 1830 - Charles X o Fraunce abdicates.
* 1858 - The colony o Breetish Columbie is creatit.
* 1874 - Iceland celebrates 1000 year o settlement.
* 1876 - American Wastren figur Wild Bill Hickok is shot deed while playin poker in Deadwood, Sooth Dakota. The caird combination he supposedly held is nou kent as "Dead Man's Hand".
* 1914 - Warld War I: Germany occupies Luxembourg.
* 1922 - A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic o Cheenae, killin 50,000 fowk.
* 1923 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30t Preses o the Unitit States after the daith o Warren G. Harding.
* 1934 - German Preses Paul von Hindenburg dies; Adolf Hitler becomes Führer o Germany.
* 1945 - The Potsdam Conference o Allied leaders ends - it's tae decide the futur o a defeatit Germany frae Warld War II.
* 1973 - A fire at the Summerland amusement centre in Douglas, Isle o Man, kills 51 fowk.
* 1980 - Richt-wing extremists detonate a bomb at Bologna train station in Italy, killin 85 fowk.
* 1989 - Pakistan is readmittit tae the Commonweel o Naitions.
* 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait.
* 2000 - Israel's Knesset is dissolved for elections efter failed peace talks.
* 2005 - Air France Flicht 358 crash-lands at Pearson Internaitional Airport in Toronto. All on baird survive.
* 2007 - Crews o the submarines Mir 1 an Mir 2 plant the Roushie banner unner the Airctic Ocean.
* 2018 - The first multi-sport European Championships, co-hostit bi Glesga an Berlin, stairt.

## Births

* 1696 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
* 1834 - Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
* 1858 - Emma o Waldeck an Pyrmont, Queen Consort an Regent o the Netherlands (d. 1934)
* 1868 - Constantine I o Greece (d. 1923)
* 1872 - Frank Barrett, Scots fitbawer (d. 1907)
* 1915 - William Gear, Scots penter (d. 1997)
* 1923 - Shimon Peres, 9t Preses o Israel (d. 2016)
* 1924 - James Baldwin, American writer (d. 1987)
* 1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentine militar leader (d. 2013)
* 1926 - John Prentice, Scots fitbawer (d. 2006)
* 1932 - Peter O'Toole, Erse-Breetish actor (d. 2013)
* 1935 - Alex Parker, Scots fitbawer (d. 2010)
* 1937 - Jim McLean, Scots fitbawer
* 1939 - Wes Craven, American film director (d. 2015)
* 1942 - Isabel Allende, Chilean-American writer
* 1947 - Massiel, Spaingie sangster
* 1953 - Donnie Munro, Scots muisicker an sangster (Runrig)
* 1954 - Ken MacLeod, Scots writer
* 1956 - Isabel Pantoja, Spaingie sangster
* 1958 - Elaine C. Smith, Scots actress an comedienne
* 1964 - Mary-Louise Parker, American actress
* 1968 - Stefan Effenberg, German fitbawer
* 1969 - Angélica Rivera, Mexican actress an First Lady
* 1972 - Carol Monaghan, Scots politeecian
* 1976 - Sam Worthington, Inglis-Australie actor
* 1982 - Hélder Postiga, Portuguese fitbawer
* 1989 - Nacer Chadli, Belgian fitbawer
* 1992 - Charli XCX, Inglis sangster an sangwriter

## Daiths

* 640 - Pape Severinus
* 686 - Pape John V
* 1100 - William II o Ingland (b. 1056)
* 1589 - Henry III o Fraunce (b. 1551)
* 1788 - Thomas Gainsborough, Inglis penter (b. 1727)
* 1799 - Pape Pius VI (b. 1717)
* 1876 - Wild Bill Hickok, American Wastren figur (b. 1837)
* 1895 - Joseph Thomson, Scots geologist an splorer (b. 1858)
* 1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
* 1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scots inventor (b. 1847)
* 1923 - Warren G. Harding, 29t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1865)
* 1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, Preses o Germany (b. 1847)
* 1945 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian componer (b. 1863)
* 1976 - Fritz Lang, Austrick film director (b. 1890)
* 1997 - William S. Burroughs, American novelist (b. 1914)
* 2015 - Sammy Cox, Scots ftibawer (b. 1924)
* 2016 - Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian chemist (b. 1946)

## Halidays
* Naitional Day o North Macedonie 
* Our Lady o the Angels Day (Costa Rica)
* Paratroopers Day (Roushie)
* Emancipation Day (Bahamas)