Year 1763
British troops once again defeated Mir Kasim in 'Giriya' battle.
AUGUST 2
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2 August: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 2 August.
Year 1790
The first census in the United States.
Year 1858
The Government of India Act 1858 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 2 August 1858. British parliament passed the act to handover the administration of India to British Government from East India Company. After the occasion, the Supreme British ruler in India was called as 'Viceroy'.
Year 1923
Calvin Coolidge became the 30th President of the United States.
Year 1935
The British pass Govt. of India Act, separating Burma, Aden from India.
Year 1939
Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard wrote a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
Year 1942
Gandhi says that the Japanese might be welcomed in India should they invade due to current Indian discontent.
Year 1954
The small Portuguese enclave of Dadra and Nagar Haveli sandwiched between Maharashtra and Gujarat was liberated by Indian freedom fighters.
Year 1959
Little Theatre was established.
Year 1970
Smt. Chonira Beliappa Muthamma, India's first woman ambassador, was deputed at Hungary.
Year 1987
Vishwanath Anand won the World Junior Chess Championship and became the first Asian player.
Year 1987
Geet Sethi retains the World Amateur Billiards title.
Year 1988
The Supreme Court confirmed death sentence on Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh in Indira Gandhi murder case.
Year 1989
A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
Year 1990
Iraq invaded Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
Year 1990
Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
Year 1999
The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
Year 2000
The Lok Sabha performs a ''hat-trick'' by setting off the process for the creation of three new states by passing the Jharkhand Bill.
Year 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.
Year 2014
At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.
Born 1834
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor.
Born 1861
Prafulla Chandra Ray, an eminent Bengali chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist, and philanthropist. He was born in the village of Raruli-Katipara IN Jessore district.
Born 1876
Pingali Venkayya, an Indian freedom fighter and the designer of the flag on which the Indian national flag was based.
Born 1877
Ravishankar Shukla, First Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. India.
Born 1878
Berta Ruck, Indian-born Welsh romance novelist (d. 1978)
Born 1880
Bellary Raghava, famous actor, lawyer, social worker and dramatist, was born.
Born 1885
Poet Siyaram Saran Gupt, brother of national poet Maithilysharan Gupt, was born.
Born 1889
Trailokyanath Chakraborty, an Indian independence activist and politician.
Born 1891
Padmashree V. P. Karmarkar (Nanasaheb), famous sculptor, was born.
Born 1956
Vijay Rupani, former Chief Minister of Gujarat.
Born 1876
Pingali Venkayya, Indian geologist, designed the Flag of India (d. 1963)
Born 1877
Ravishankar Shukla, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh (d. 1956)
Born 1919
Bharat Bhushan Agrawal, famous poet and winner of Sahitya Academy Award, was born.
Born 1922
Gangaprasad Birla, great industrialist, was born.
Born 1922
Krishnapal Singh, politician and lawyer, was born at Birahuli in Madhya Pradesh.
Born 1929
Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (d. 2013)
Born 1932
Lamar Hunt, an American businessman.
Born 1945
Bunker Roy, Indian educator and activist
Born 1958
Arshad Ayub, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 13 Tests between 1987-89), was born in Hyderabad.
Born 1977
Jaswinder "Jas" Jutla, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
Died 1589
Henry III, King of France.
Died 1781
Sakharambapu Bokeel, great politician in Maratha kingdom, died.
Died 1922
Alexander Graham Bell, a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and engineer.
Died 1953
Baldev Ramji Mirdha "Kisan Kesari", great social worker, leader and politician, died in harness while going to address a Kisan Conference. He also played a vital role in the formation of Rajasthan.
Died 1980
Ramkinkar Baij, an Indian sculptor and painter.
Died 2010
Kamal Kapoor, an Indian actor, and producer.
Died 2016
Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (b. 1930)
Died 2016
David Huddleston, American actor (b. 1930)
Died 2016
Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (b. 1927)
Died 2016
Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1946)