Charles Edward (1884–1954) was at various times a British prince, the last ruling duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in Germany, and a Nazi politician. Brought up in the United Kingdom, he was selected to succeed to the throne of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1899 because he was deemed young enough to be re-educated as a German. He married Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein and the couple had five children. Charles Edward was a conservative ruler with an interest in art and technology. During the First World War, he supported the German Empire but was deposed during the German Revolution. During the 1920s, Charles Edward became a moral and financial supporter of violent far-right paramilitary groups, joining the Nazi Party in 1933. He was given multiple positions, including leader of the German Red Cross, and acted as an unofficial diplomat. After the war, he was interned for a period and given a minor conviction by a denazification court, dying of cancer in 1954. ( Full article...)

T. acutiloba in bloom

• ... that on top of being used as a culinary herb, Tulbaghia acutiloba (pictured) has been used in treating infectious diseases and hypertension?
• ... that Olympian Ruby Remati got into synchronized swimming because as a child, she liked the competitors' sparkly suits?
• ... that some minority ethnic groups in Botswana view the Three Dikgosi Monument as a proclamation of Motswana dominance?
• ... that São Tomé and Príncipe was popularly known as the Chocolate Islands in the early 1900s, when it was the world's top exporter of cocoa?
• ... that actor Scott Jarvis was angered when White House officials under Richard Nixon requested that portions of his role in the musical 1776 be cut due to its anti-war theme?
• ... that a Japanese essayist and film historian has called Godzilla Minus One a "dangerous movie"?
• ... that college football player Reggie Brown tore three knee ligaments and still made it to the NFL?
• ... that in its two years of existence, the Hunter River Railway Company initiated construction on what would eventually become the Great Northern Railway connecting Sydney to Queensland?
• ... that Patrick Gottsch, the founder of RFD-TV and The Cowboy Channel, led the effort to break the Guinness World Record for the largest parade of pickup trucks?

Ismail Haniyeh

• Ismail Haniyeh (pictured), the political leader of Hamas, is assassinated in Tehran, Iran.
• Landslides in Wayanad, India, kill more than 180 people.
• In Gaelic football, the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship concludes with Armagh defeating Galway in the final.
• Typhoon Gaemi leaves more than 70 people dead in the Philippines, China, Taiwan, and Cambodia.

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.
• 1973 – A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.