August 2

Today in History
• 1100 - King William II of England is killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest
• 1552 - Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion
• 1610 - English explorer Henry Hudson enters the bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay
• 1695 - Daniel Quare receives a British patent for his portable barometer
• 1776 - Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people
• 1782 - George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction
• 1790 - 1st US census conducted, the population was 3,939,214
• 1791 - Samuel Briggs and his son granted US patent for a nail-making machine


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• National CAD Day
• National Coloring Book Day
• National Ice Cream Sandwich Day
• Regatta Day
• Republic Day in North Macedonia
• Take a Penny/Leave a Penny Day
• Virgin of Los Angeles Day
• Buddhist Lent

Birthdays
• 1455 - Johan Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (1486-99)
• 1674 - Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and Regent of France (1715-23)
• 1696 - Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1730-54)
• 1703 - Lorenzo Ricci, Jesuit leader (18th and last Superior General of the Society of Jesus)
• 1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, France, architect laid out Washington D.C.
• 1802 - Nicholas Wiseman, 1st archbishop of Westminster (1860-65)
• 1832 - Henry Steel Olcott, American military officer and co-founder of the Theosophical Society
• 1834 - Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Colmar France, sculptor, Statue of Liberty