August 1
August 1st is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. Events500-1899527 - Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor.1291 - The Swiss Confederation is formed.1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain.1461 - Edward IV crowned king of England.1498 - Christopher Columbus is the first European to visit Venezuela.1619 - First African slaves landed in Jamestown, Virginia.1774 - The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley.1776 - Formal signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.1794 - The Whiskey Rebellion begins in Pennsylvania.1798 - Battle of the Nile 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 - Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated.1864 - Foundation of Elgin Watch Company in Elgin, Illinois1876 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
1900-19991902 - The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.1907 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.1914 - Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.1927 - The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China.1936 - The Berlin Olympic Games are opened.1941 - The first Jeep is produced.1944 - Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.1944 - Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.1957 - The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).1960 - Benin declares independence from France1961 - Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park, opens.1965 - Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.1966 - Charles Whitman kills 15 people shooting from a tower at the University of Texas in Austin, in the United States, before being killed by the police. 1966 - Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival1971 - George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York City features, among others, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Leon Russell.1981 - First broadcasts by MTV. The first video played was Video Killed The Radio Star by Buggles.1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumours that they had married eleven weeks earlier.1996 - Olympic Games: Michael Johnson wins the 200 meters in 19.32 seconds, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.
2000-20992001 - 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 - 215 people are killed and 300 injured in a supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay.2005 - German spelling reform of 1996 to be formally implemented
Births
In the Southern Hemisphere, August 1 is the Horse's Birthday, the day all horses are considered to have been born for recordkeeping and competition purposes. January 1 is the equivalent in the Northern Hemisphere.
10 BC-AD 189910 BC - Claudius, Roman emperor (d. AD 54)126 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, scientist (d. 1829)1770 - William Clark, explorer (d. 1838)1779 - Francis Scott Key, writer of "The Star-Spangled Banner" (d. 1843)1815 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr, lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882)1818 - Maria Mitchell, astronomer (d. 1889)1819 - Herman Melville, writer (d. 1891)1858 - Hans Rott, composer (d. 1884)1885 - George de Hevesy, chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943 (d. 1966)1891 - Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
1900-19991921 - Jack Kramer (tennis player), tennis star1922 - Arthur Hill, actor 1922 - Pat McDonald, soap opera actress (d. 1990)1925 - Ernst Jandl, writer (d. 2000)1927 - Raymond Leppard, English conductor1930 - 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, comedian1936 - Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer1937 - Al D'Amato, U.S. senator from New York1942 - Jerry Garcia, guitarist, lyricist, singer (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)1942 - Sjoukje Dijkstra, figure skater1946 - Fiona Stanley, epidemiologist1950 - Jim Carroll, poet, actor1953 - Robert Cray, blues singer1955 - Trevor Berbick, boxer1956 - Tom Leykis, radio personality1959 - Joe Elliott, rock and roll musician (Def Leppard)1960 - Chuck D, rapper (Public Enemy) 1960 - Richard Roeper, columnist for Chicago Sun-Times, film critic partner of Roger Ebert1963 - Coolio, rapper1965 - Sam Mendes, film director1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, actress1975 - Omar Bakht, friendly guy1978 - Edgerrin James, American football player1981 - Ashley Parker Angel, singer
Deaths300-1899371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop1137 - King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa, the first of Shimazu clan and Japanese warlord (b. 1179)1464 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)1598 - Abraham Ortelius, cartographer (b. 1527)1714 - Queen Anne of Great Britain1836 - James Madison, President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (b. 1751)1876 - Wild Bill Hickock, gunfighter1889 - Maria Mitchell, astronomer
1900-19991917 - Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, Montana1923 - Warren G. Harding, United States President (b. 1865)1964 - Johnny Burnett, singer (b. 1934)1970 - Frances Farmer, actress (b. 1913)1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer1977 - Gary Powers, pilot (b. 1929)1981 - Paddy Chayefsky, writer (b. 1923)1989 - John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)1990 - Graham Young, British serial killer, (b. 1947)1992 - Mikhail Tal, world chess champion (b. 1936)1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, writer (b. 1897)
2000-20992001 - Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)2003 - Guy Thys, Belgian national football coach2003 - Marie Trintignant, French actress 2004 - Philip Hauge Abelson physicist co-discoverer of Neptunium (b. 1913)
Holidays and observancesOrthodox Christianity - Procession of the CrossAngola - Armed Forces DayBarbados, Trinidad and Tobago - Emancipation DayBenin - National DayPeople's Republic of China - Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation ArmyDemocratic Republic of Congo - Parent's DayNicaragua - Fiesta DayRastafarianism - Celebration of the liberation of Haile Selassie from slaverySwitzerland - National DayBahá'í Faith - Feast of Kamál (Perfection) - First day of the eighth month of the Bahá'í CalendarLughnasadh - Lá Lúnasa, the traditional first day of Autumn in Ireland.Lammas - Neopagan festival of LammasLebanon - Army's Day (Eid al-Jaysh)Yorkshire, United Kingdom - Yorkshire Day
External links BBC: On This Day
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