Thursday, August 2, 2255 is a Thursday. It is day 214 of 2255 (58.6% through the year), ISO week 31, in Q3.
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Thursday, August 2, 2255 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2008: A taxi driver is murdered in Bangkok by a teenager addicted to video games leading to the Thai government banning the sale of Grand Theft Auto.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to August 2.
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Historical Milestones
A taxi driver is murdered in Bangkok by a teenager addicted to video games leading to the Thai government banning the sale of Grand Theft Auto.
Murder of Khuan Phokaeng →Raúl Iturriaga, a former deputy director of the Chilean secret police, was captured in Viña del Mar after having been on the run following a kidnapping conviction.
Raúl Iturriaga →The animated film Castle in the Sky, the first from Studio Ghibli, was released.
Castle in the Sky →A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.
Summerland disaster →The English rock band the Who released Who's Next, their only album to top the UK charts.
The Who →Star Dust, a British South American Airways airliner, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes; its wreckage was not found until 1998.
1947 BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust accident →Leo Szilard penned a letter, signed by Albert Einstein and addressed to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning that Germany may develop atomic bombs, leading to the establishment of the Manhattan Project.
Leo Szilard →At the California Institute of Technology, American physicist Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter with the discovery of the positron, for which he would receive the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics.
California Institute of Technology →Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack.
Calvin Coolidge →Nepalese author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn alleged to contain attacks on the ruling dynasty.
Krishna Lal Adhikari →An explosion, blamed on Austro-Hungarian saboteurs, sank the Italian dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci.
Austria-Hungary →The French army's general headquarters was activated in anticipation of war with Germany.
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Questions & Answers
Thursday, August 2, 2255 falls on a Thursday.
in 83,594 days (in 228 years, 10 months, 16 days). It is day 214 of 2255 with 151 days remaining in the year.
In Roman numerals, Thursday, August 2, 2255 is written as II.VIII.MMCCLV (Day.Month.Year format).
The moon phase for this date is New Moon (approx. 2% illuminated). The astrological sun sign is Leo.