August 1

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

• Angola - Armed Forces Day
• Barbados , Trinidad and Tobago - Emancipation Day
• Benin - National Day
• People's Republic of China - Anniversaryof the Founding of the People's LiberationArmy
• Democratic Republic of Congo - Parent'sDay
• Nicaragua - Fiesta Day
• Rastafarianism - Celebration of the liberation of Haile Selassie from slavery
• Switzerland - National Day
• Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Kamál (Perfection) - First day of theeighth month of the Bahá'í Calendar
• Lughnasadh - Lá Lúnasa, the traditional first day of Autumn in Ireland .
• Lammas - Neopagan festival of Lammas
• Lebanon - Army's Day (Eid al-Jaysh)
• Yorkshire , England , UK - Yorkshire Day

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