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August 2: Roma Holocaust Memorial Day

Krishna Lal Adhikari

461 – Unpopular among the Senate aristocracy for his reforming efforts, Roman emperor Majorian was deposed by Ricimer and executed five days later.
1100 – While on a hunting trip in the New Forest, King William II of England was killed by an arrow through the lung loosed by one of his own men.
1790 – The first United States census was officially completed, with the nation's residential population enumerated to be 3,929,214.
1920 – 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.
1973 – A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.

Pope Severinus (d. 640)
Harriet Arbuthnot (d. 1834)
Bertha Lutz (b. 1894)
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