August 1
August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining.
Events
- 30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
- 527 - Justinian I becomes the only ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
- 607 - Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
- 1203 - Isaac II Angelus, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexius IV Angelus co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Ciaran Fourth Crusade.
- 1291 - The Swiss Confederation is formed.
- 1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England.
- 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain.
- 1498 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.
- 1619 - First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1664 - The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
- 1774 - The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley.
- 1798 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) - Battle begins when a British fleet under the command of Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers in an unusual night action.
- 1800 - The Act of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1820 - London's Regent's Canal opens.
- 1831 - London Bridge opens.
- 1832 - The Black Hawk War ends.
- 1834 - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
- 1838 - Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated.
- 1864 - The Elgin Watch Company is founded in Elgin, Illinois.
- 1876 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
- 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
- 1902 - The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.
- 1907 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island. It was set up on July 29th and ran until August 9th.
- 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. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
- 1936 - Olympic Games: Summer Olympic Games - The Games of the XI Olympiad open in Berlin.
- 1937 - Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
- 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.
- 1945 - Mel Ott becomes the third member of the 500 home run club with a Home run at the Polo Grounds in New York, New York.
- 1946 - The Japanese Federation of Trade Unions is formed.
- 1948 - The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
- 1957 - The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
- 1960 - Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
- 1960 - Communist PAI is banned in Senegal.
- 1960 - Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
- 1961 - Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park, opens.
- 1964 - The Republic of the Congo (the former Belgian Congo, not to be confused with Congo-Brazzaville) is renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 1965 - Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.
- 1966 - Charles Whitman kills 15 people shooting from the Main Building at the University of Texas at Austin 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.
- 1968 - The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
- 1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival.
- 1971 - Concert for Bangladesh.
- 1975 - CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
- 1977 - Frank H.T. Rhodes is elected President of Cornell University, a post he would hold for 18 years.
- 1981 - MTV broadcasts its first video, "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.
- 1988 - Rush Limbaugh was syndicated nationally as a two hour radio show.
- 1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumors that they had married eleven weeks earlier.
- 1996 - Olympic Games: 1996 Summer Olympics - Michael Johnson wins the 200-meter dash in 19.32 seconds, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.
- 2001 - An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia.
- 2001 - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
- 2001 - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a 2-1/2 ton Ten Commandments monument installed in the rotunda of the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
- 2004 - A supermarket fire kills 215 people and injures 300 in Asunción, Paraguay.
- 2005 - German spelling reform of 1996 is formally implemented.
Births
- 10 BC - Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. 54)
- 126 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
- 1313 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)
- 1377 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
- 1545 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
- 1555 - Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
- 1579 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
- 1630 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
- 1713 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1780)
- 1714 - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
- 1738 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
- 1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
- 1770 - William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838)
- 1779 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
- 1779 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
- 1815 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882)
- 1818 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
- 1819 - Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
- 1843 - Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln; United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
- 1858 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
- 1885 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1966)
- 1881 - Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
- 1889 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
- 1891 - Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
- 1893 - King Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
- 1894 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
- 1910 - James Henry Govier, British artist (d. 1974)
- 1910 - Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
- 1912 - Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1914 - J. Lee Thompson, British film director (d. 2002)
- 1921 - Jack Kramer, American tennis player
- 1922 - Pat McDonald, Australian actress (d. 1990)
- 1924 - Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
- 1925 - Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
- 1927 - Raymond Leppard, English conductor
- 1930 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
- 1930 - Lionel Bart, English song-writer (d. 1999)
- 1930 - Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (d. 1991)
- 1932 - Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
- 1933 - Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian
- 1936 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer
- 1937 - Al D'Amato, United States Senator from New York
- 1942 - Jerry Garcia, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
- 1945 - Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
- 1946 - Sandi Griffiths, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show
- 1946 - Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
- 1949 - Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan
- 1950 - Jim Carroll, American poet and actor
- 1951 - Tommy Bolin, American guitarist
- 1951 - Pete Mackanin, American baseball player
- 1952 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
- 1953 - Robert Cray, American singer
- 1955 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer
- 1956 - Tom Leykis, American radio personality
- 1958 - Adrian Dunbar, Northern Irish actor
- 1959 - Joe Elliott, English musician (Def Leppard)
- 1960 - Chuck D, American rapper (Public Enemy)
- 1960 - Richard Roeper, American newspaper columnist and film critic
- 1962 - Robert Clift, British field hockey player
- 1963 - Coolio, American rapper
- 1963 - John Carroll Lynch, American actor
- 1964 - Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows)
- 1965 - Sam Mendes, British stage and film director
- 1967 - Gregg Jefferies, baseball player
- 1969 - Kevin Jarvis, baseball player
- 1970 - David James, English footballer
- 1972 - Devon Hughes, US professional wrestler
- 1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
- 1976 - Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
- 1976 - Kevin Joseph, baseball player
- 1977 - Marc Denis, NHL Hockey player
- 1978 - Edgerrin James, American football player
- 1978 - Dhani Harrison, musician
- 1979 - Junior Agogo, footballer
- 1980 - Alessandro Faiolhe Amantino Mancini, Brazilian footballer
- 1981 - M. Shadows, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
- 1981 - Ashley Parker Angel, American musician (O-Town)
- 1984 - Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
Deaths
- 371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283)
- 527 - Emperor Justin I (b. c. 450)
- 1137 - King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
- 1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
- 1402 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
- 1457 - Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (bc. 1406)
- 1464 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
- 1541 - Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
- 1546 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
- 1557 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
- 1580 - Albrecht Giese IV, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
- 1589 - Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
- 1675 - Weetamoo, sachem of Pocasetts a band of the Wamponoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip's War
- 1714 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
- 1787 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
- 1796 - Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
- 1798 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
- 1812 - Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
- 1851 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
- 1866 - John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
- 1917 - Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
- 1918 - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
- 1920 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
- 1964 - Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934)
- 1966 - Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (b. 1941)
- 1967 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
- 1970 - Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
- 1970 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883)
- 1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
- 1977 - Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
- 1981 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
- 1989 - John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
- 1990 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
- 1990 - Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)
- 1996 - Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
- 1996 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
- 1997 - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
- 1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
- 2001 - Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
- 2003 - Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
- 2003 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
- 2004 - Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)
- 2005 - Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
- 2005 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
- 2005 - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
- 2005 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
- 2006 - Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
Holidays and observances
Liturgical feasts
Orthodox Christianity
Roman Catholicism
- Saint Alphonso Maria de' Liguori, bishop, Doctor of the Church (died 1787)
- Saint Archadius, bishop of Bourges [Bourges]
- Saint Bandarid, bishop of Soissons [Soissons]
- Saint Bertharius, bishop of Chartres [Chartres]
- Saint Æthelwold of Winchester, bishop of Winchester, confessor [common; England]
- Saint Ethelwolf
- Saint Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli, martyr [Geneva, Lausanne, France; Paris]
- Saint Exuperius, bishop of Bayeux [northern France; Paris]
- Saint Felix, martyr at Gerona [southern France]
- Saint Jonatus
- Saint Maccabees, martyrs [common]
- Saint Nectarius, bishop of Vienne [Vienne]
- Saint Peregrinus, hermit / Pellegrini
- Saint Peter "in Chains" = St. Peter's chains [common; Paris, Bruges, in red]
- Saint Peter Julian Eymard (Pierre-Julien Eymard, died 1868)
- Saints Sophia, widow, and daughters (Faith, Hope, and Charity, virgins), martyrs [Paris]
- Saints Spes and Fides of Rome
- Saint Sativola, virgin [Exeter]
External links
July 31 - August 2 - July 1 - September 1 -- listing of all days
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