2nd August anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1907
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Alec Clifton-Taylor, architectural historian, best known for his television programmes about English towns." more
• event
  • 1610
  • Canada
  • Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay. more
  • 1776
  • United States
  • Signing of the United States Declaration of Independence more
  • 1858
  • Great Britain
  • The British Government took control of the East India Company .
  • 1870
  • Great Britain
  • "The world's first underground railway opens in London, the Tower Subway." more
  • 1873
  • United States
  • "The first cable car started operating in San Francisco, the Clay Street Hill Railroad." more
  • 1880
  • Great Britain
  • Greenwich Mean Time adopted throughout UK
  • 1894
  • Great Britain
  • Death duties first introduced in Britain
  • 1939
  • United States
  • Albert Einstein wrote a letter to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging the creation of an atomic weapons research programme
• Death
  • 640
  • Italy
  • Death of Pope Severinus. more
  • 686
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Death of Pope John V. more
  • 924
  • Great Britain
  • Death of Ælfweard of Wessex more
  • 1735
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of John Williamson and the inappropriately named Ann Virgin who were executed at Gallows Corner, Bedford for killing her bastard child and burying it in a dung hill. "
  • 1788
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Thomas Gainsborough, English painter." more
  • 1859
  • United States
  • "Death of Horace Mann, American education reformer and politician"
  • 1876
  • United States
  • "Death of James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok, shot dead in Deadwood, South Dakota." more
  • 1921
  • Italy
  • "Death of Enrico Caruso, Italian singer." more
  • 1922
  • Canada
  • "Death of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone." more
  • 1934
  • Germany
  • "Death of Paul von Hindenburg, German President. This led to Adolf Hitler combining the roles of Chancellor and President: Führer." more
  • 1998
  • United States
  • "Death of Shari Lewis, American puppeteer and ventriloquist (‘Lamb Chop’)."