August 1

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August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining.

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1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

527 - Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor.
607 - Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
1291 - The Swiss Confederation is formed.
1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain.
1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England.
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.
1776 - Formal signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.
1798 - Battle of the Nile starts between French and British fleets.
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.
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 - The Berlin Olympic Games open.
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.
1961 - 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 Festival
1971 - 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 the Buggles.
1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumors 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.
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 to be formally implemented
2005 - Disneyland Resort Line of the Hong Kong MTR opens to public.

Births

10 BC - Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. AD 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 (b. 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)
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)
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)
1858 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
1885 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
1891 - Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
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)
1931 - Tom Wilson, American cartoonist
1932 - Meir Kahane, American orthodox rabbi and 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, U.S. Senator from New York
1942 - Jerry Garcia, American guitarist, lyricist, and singer (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
1945 - Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1946 - Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
1949 - Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan
1950 - Jim Carroll, American poet and actor
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
1959 - Joe Elliott, English musician (Def Leppard)
1960 - Chuck D, American rapper (Public Enemy)
1960 - Richard Roeper, American newspaper columnist and film critic
1963 - Coolio, American rapper
1965 - Sam Mendes, British stage and film director
1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
1978 - Edgerrin James, American football player
ALL - Horses, 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.