August 2, 1932
Peter Seamus O’Toole ( 2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was a British stage and film actor.
August 2, 1922
Alexander Graham Bell ( born Alexander Bell; March 03, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
August 2, 1894
Modern inheritance tax dates back to 1894 when the government introduced estate duty, a tax on the capital value of land, in a bid to raise money to pay off a £4m government deficit.
August 2, 1820
John Tyndall FRS 2 August 1820 – 4 December 1893) was a prominent 19th-century Irish physicist.
August 2, 1800
The Acts of Union 1800 merged the Kingdom of Ireland and Kingdom of Great Britain into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
August 2, 939
Brittany is a large peninsula in the north-west of France, surrounded by the English Channel to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.
August 03, 1916
Roger Casement, Irish patriot, is hanged by the English in Pentonville Prison, London.
August 03, 1857
Prof George Francis FitzGerald FRS FRSE (3 August 1851 – 22 February 1901) was an Irish academic and physicist who served as Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at …
August 03, 1823
Thomas Francis Meagher (3 August 1823 – 1 July 1867) was an Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848.
August 03, 1573
Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange (c. 1520 –3 August 1573) was a Scottish politician and soldier who fought for the Scottish Reformation but ended his career holding Edinburgh castle on behalf of Mary, …
August 03, 1460
James II of Scotland (October 16, 1430 – August 03, 1460) was king of Scotland from 1437 to 1460.
August 03, 1379
John IV the Conqueror KG (in Breton Yann IV, in French Jean IV, and traditionally in English sources both John of Montfort and John V) (1339 – 1 November 1399), was Duke of Brittany and Count of …
