Today: Saturday - 2 August 2025
| 214
151 |
Today Holidays
Macedonia: Republic Day
Costa-Rica: Virgin of Los Angeles

Events

1610 - Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United States Declaration of Independence.
1790 - The first US Census is conducted.
1798 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) concludes in a British victory
1869 - Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
1903 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
1916 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
1918 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1932 - The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
1934 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
1937 - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
1939 - Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1943 - Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
1943 - World War II: PT-109 rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
1964 - Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fires on U.S. destroyers, USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy.
1967 - The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London.
1968 - The 1968 Casiguran Earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
1973 - A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
1980 - A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
1985 - Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
1989 - 1989 Valvettiturai massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces in the Gulf War.
216 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.

Advertisement
Select

2025

1 JanuaryDay of the Establishment of the Slovak Republic (Deň vzniku Slovenskej republiky)
6 JanuaryEpiphany (Święto Trzech Króli oraz Święto Bożego Narodzenia chrześcijan prawosławnych)
18 AprilGood Friday (Veľkonočný piatok)
21 AprilEaster Monday (Veľkonočný pondelok)
1 MayLabour Day (Sviatok práce)
8 MayVictory Day (Deň víťazstva nad fašizmom)
5 JulySaints Cyril and Methodius Day (Sviatok svätého Cyrila a Metoda)
29 AugustSlovak National Uprising anniversary (Výročie Slovenského národného povstania)
1 SeptemberConstitution Day (Deň Ústavy Slovenskej republiky)
15 SeptemberOur Lady of Sorrows (Sviatok Panny Márie Sedembolestnej, patrónky Slovenska)
1 NovemberAll Saints (Sviatok všetkých svätých)
17 NovemberStruggle for Freedom and Democracy Day (Deň boja za slobodu a demokraciu)
24 DecemberChristmas Eve (Štedrý deň)
25 DecemberChristmas (Prvý sviatok vianočný)
26 DecemberBoxing Day (Druhý sviatok vianočný)
Sweden  |  Russia  |  Norway  |  Moldova  |  Luxembourg  |  Lithuania  |  France  |  Finland  |  Turkey  |  Bahrain  |  Israel  |  Georgia  |  Philippines  |  Bangladesh  |  Burkina Faso  |  Angola  |  Mozambique  |  Equatorial Guinea  |  The Gambia  |  Nigeria  |  Tanzania  |  Swaziland  |  Marshall Islands  |  Tokelau  |  New Caledonia  |  Christmas Island  |  Bermuda  |  Belize  |  The Bahamas  |  Nicaragua
Slovak Republic
Slovenská republika
Slovak Republic - FlagSlovak Republic - Coat of arms
Slovak Republic - Location
Capital: Bratislava
Official languages: Slovak
Government: Parliamentary republic
Currency: Euro (EUR)
Population: 5 455 000
Area: 49 035 km²
Religion: Catholicism (68,9 %), Lutheranism (6,93%), Orthodox Church (5,2%), Calvinism (1,9 %)
Time Zone:
UTC +1 winter
UTC +2 summer
Auto Code: SK
Internet TLD: .sk
Calling code: +421
Corporate Income Tax: 19,00%
Personal Income Tax: 19,00%
Value Added Tax: 19,00%
Cookie policy
This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to our use of cookies.