August 1(august)
August 1st is the 213th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar
(214th in
leap years
), with 152 daysremaining.
Events
-
527
-
Justinian I
becomes
Byzantine Emperor
.
-
1245
-
FirstCouncil of Lyons
opens.
-
1291
- The
Swiss Confederation
isformed.
-
1492
-
Ferdinand
and
Isabella
drive the
Jews
out of
Spain
.
-
1461
-
Edward IV
crowned king of
England
.
-
1498
-
ChristopherColumbus
discovers
Venezuela
.
-
1519
-
Charles V
elected emperor of
Germany
.
-
1619
- First Black
slaves
landed in
Jamestown, Virginia
.
-
1635
-
Guadeloupe
becomes a Frenchcolony.
-
1774
- The element
oxygen
is discovered by
Carl Wilhelm
and
Joseph Priestley
.
-
1776
- Formal signing of the
Declaration of Independence
.
-
1790
- The first
census
of the
United States
is completed. The total population of the thirteen states was3,929,214.
-
1794
- The
WhiskeyRebellion
begins in
Pennsylvania
.
-
1798
-
Battle of theNile
starts between French and British fleets.
-
1820
-
London
's
Regent's Canal
opens.
-
1831
-
London Bridge
opens.
-
1832
-
Black Hawk War
ends.
-
1834
-
Slavery
is abolished in the
British
Empire.
-
1838
-
Victoria
crowned queenof
Britain
.
-
1864
-
American Civil War
: General
Philip Sheridan
takes command of the
Army of the Shenandoah
.
-
1864
- foundation of
Elgin Watch Company
in
Elgin,Illinois
-
1859
- First dog show held in Newcastle-on-Tyne,
England
.
-
1873
- First
cable car
begins servicein
San Francisco, California
.
-
1876
-
Colorado
is admitted as the 38th
U.S. state
.
-
1894
- War erupts between
Japan
and
China
over
Korea
.
-
1895
-
El Salvador
,
Honduras
and
Nicaragua
form the CentralAmerican Union.
-
1902
- The
United States
buysthe rights to the
Panama Canal
from
France
.
-
1907
- First
Scout
camp opens on
Brownsea Island
.
-
1909
-
United States Army Air Corps
founded.
-
1914
-
Germany
declares war on
Russia
.
-
1927
- Formation of the
People's Liberation Army
.
-
1936
- The
Berlin
Olympic Games
are opened.
-
1941
- The first
Jeep
is produced.
-
1943
-
PT-109
, with Lieutenant
John F. Kennedy
aboard, sinks.
-
1944
-
Anne Frank
makes the lastentry in her
diary
.
-
1944
-
Warsaw Uprising
against the Nazi occupation breaks out in
Warsaw, Poland
.
-
1950
- King
Leopold III of Belgium
abdicates.
-
1957
- The United States and
Canada
form theNorth American Air Defense Command (
NORAD
).
-
1960
-
Benin
declares independence from
France
-
1964
-
North Vietnam
fires on aUS destroyer in the
Gulf of Tonkin
.
-
1965
- President
Johnson
authorizes the first use of American ground troops in the
Vietnam War
.
-
1965
- Princess
Beatrix
of the
Netherlands
announcesher engagement to
Claus von Amsberg
.
-
1966
-
Charles Whitman
kills 15 people shooting from a tower at the
University ofTexas
in
Austin
, in the
United States
, before being killed by the police.
-
1967
-
Israel
annexes East
Jerusalem
.
-
1971
-
George Harrison
'sConcert for Bangladesh in New York features, among others,
Bob Dylan
,
Eric Clapton
,
Ringo Starr
and
Leon Russell
.
-
1981
- First broadcasts by
MTV
. The first videoplayed was
Video Killed The RadioStar
by
Buggles
.
-
1991
-
Israeli
Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir
accepts a formula for peace talks in the
Middle East
.
-
1994
-
Michael Jackson
and
Lisa Marie Presley
confirm rumours that they had married elevenweeks earlier.
-
1996
-
Olympic Games
:
Michael Johnson
wins the 200 meters in 19.32, beatingthe old world record by over 0.3 seconds.
-
2001
- In talks between the government and representatives of the
Albanian
minority in the
Republic of Macedonia
, an agreement is reached on the position of the
Albanian language
in the Republic.
-
2001
-
Bulgaria
,
Cyprus
,
Latvia
,
Malta
,
Slovenia
and
Slovakia
join the
European Environment Agency
.
-
2004
-
Paraguay
: In capital city
Asuncion
a supermarket burned. More than 215 dead and 300 people injured.
Births
-
10 BC
-
Claudius
,
Roman
emperor (d.
54
)
-
126
-
Pertinax
, Roman Emperor (d.
193
)
-
1368
-
Sigismund
, emperor, king of
Hungary
and of
Bohemia
(d.
1437
)
-
1476
-
Pope Paul IV
(d.
1559
)
-
1744
-
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
, scientist (d.
1829
)
-
1770
-
William Clark
, explorer(d.
1838
)
-
1779
-
Francis ScottKey
, composer of "The
Star-Spangled Banner
" (d.
1843
)
-
1815
-
Richard HenryDana
, lawyer, politician, and author (d.
1882
)
-
1818
-
Maria Mitchell
,astronomer (d.
1889
)
-
1819
-
Herman Melville
,writer (d.
1891
)
-
1824
-
Paul Broca
, anthropologist (d.
1880
)
-
1858
-
Hans Rott
, composer (d.
1884
)
-
1863
-
Gaston Doumergue
,politician and president of
France
(d.
1937
)
-
1885
-
George de Hevesy
,chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in chemistry
1943
(d.
1966
)
-
1921
-
Jack Kramer
,
tennis
star (d.
2002
)
-
1922
-
Arthur Hill
, actor
-
1925
-
Ernst Jandl
, writer (d.
2000
)
-
1930
-
Pierre Bourdieu
,French
sociologist
(d.
2002
)
-
1931
-
Tom Wilson
, cartoonist(
Ziggy
)
-
1932
-
Meir Kahane
, founder of the
Jewish Defense League
(d.
1990
)
-
1933
-
Dom DeLuise
, actor,comedian
-
1936
-
Yves SaintLaurent
, fashion designer
-
1937
-
Alfonse D'Amato
,
New York
Senator
-
1942
-
Jerry Garcia
, guitarist,lyricist, singer (The
Grateful Dead
) (d.
1995
)
-
1942
-
Sjoukje Dijkstra
, figure skater
-
1950
-
Jim Carroll
, poet,actor
-
1953
-
Robert Cray
, singer
-
1956
-
Tom Leykis
, radiopersonality
-
1959
-
Joe Elliot
,
rock and roll
musician (
Def Leppard
)
-
1960
-
Chuck D
, rapper (
Public Enemy
);
RichardRoeper
, columnist for
Chicago Sun-Times
, film critic partnerof
Roger Ebert
-
1963
-
Coolio
, rapper
-
1965
-
Sam Mendes
, film director
-
1973
-
Tempestt Bledsoe
,actress
-
1981
-
Ashley Parker Angel
, singer
-
1984
-
Alessandra Angleton
, twin daughter of
Robert Angleton
and
Doris Angleton
-
1984
-
Nicole Angleton
, twin daughter of Robert Angleton and Doris Angleton
- It is also recognised that August 1 is the "Horse's Birthday" for every horse, regardless of their actual date of birth.
Deaths
-
371
-
St Eusebiusof Vercelli
, bishop
-
1598
-
Abraham Ortelius
,cartographer (b.
1527
)
-
1714
- Queen
Anneof Great Britain
-
1836
-
James Madison
,
President of the United States
from
1809
to
1817
(b.
1751
)
-
1876
-
Wild Bill Hickock
, gunfighter
-
1889
-
Maria Mitchell
,astronomer
-
1917
-
Frank Little
,
IWW
organizer,
lynched
in
Butte, Montana
-
1923
-
Warren G.Harding
,
United States President
(b.
1865
)
-
1964
-
Johnny Burnett
, singer(b.
1934
)
-
1970
-
Frances Farmer
,actress (b.
1913
)
-
1973
-
GianFrancesco Malipiero
, composer
-
1977
-
Gary Powers
, pilot (b.
1929
)
-
1981
-
Paddy Chayefsky
,writer (b.
1923
)
-
1990
-
Graham Young
,
British
serial killer
,(b.
1947
)
-
1992
-
Mikhail Tal
, world
chess
champion (b.
1936
)
-
2004
-
Philip HaugeAbelson
physicist
co-discoverer of
Neptunium
(b. 1913)
Holidays and observances
July 31
-
August 2
-
July 1
-
September 1
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