August 1st is the 213th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (214th in
leap years), with 152 days remaining.
Events:
- 1119: The crusader?s are beaten in the [battle of Sarmada]?.
- 1245: [First Council of Lyons opens]?.
- 1291: The Swiss Confederation is formed.
- 1461: [Edward IV]? crowned king of England.
- 1498: Christopher Columbus discovers Venezuela.
- 1519: Charles V elected emperor of Germany.
- 1635: Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
- 1774: The element oxygen is discovered by [Carl Wilhelm]? and [Joseph Priestley]?.
- 1790: The first census of the United States is completed. The total population of the 17 states was 3,929,214.
- 1834: Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
- 1838: Victoria crowned queen of Britain.
- 1859: First dog show held in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.
- 1876: Colorado becomes a state.
- 1894: War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
- 1895: El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
- 1902: The United States buy the rights of the Panama Canal from France.
- 1914: Germany declares war on Russia.
- 1936: The Olympic Games of Berlin are opened.
- 1940: Romania cedes Bessarabia? (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
- 1944: Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
- 1944: An uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw.
- 1957: The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD?).
- 1965: President Johnson authorizes the first use of American ground troops in the Vietnam War.
- 1965: Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement with [Claus von Amsberg]?.
- 1966: Charles Joseph Whitman kills 15 people shooting from a tower at the University of Texas in Austin before being killed by the police.
- 1967: Israel annexes East Jerusalem
- 1971: George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York 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?.
- 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 11 weeks earlier.
- 1996: Michael Johnson wins the 200 meters in 19.32, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.
- 2001: In talks between the government and representatives of the Albanian? minority in Macedonia, an agreement is reached on the position of the [Albanian language]? in Macedonia.
- 2001: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
Births:
- 1367: Sigismund (emperor of Hungary and king of Bohemia)
- 1476: [Paul IV]? (pope)
- 1770: [William Clark]? (explorer)
- 1779: Francis Scott Key (author of "The Star-Spangled Banner" [The U.S. national anthem])
- 1818: [Maria Mitchell]? (astronomer)
- 1819: Herman Melville (writer)
- 1824: [Paul Broca]? (anthropologist)
- 1843: [Robert Todd Lincoln]? (son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln)
- 1922: [Arthur Hill]? (actor)
- 1931: [Tom Wilson]? (cartoonist) (Ziggy)
- 1933: [Dom Deluise]? (actor, comedian)
- 1936: [Yves Saint Laurent]? (fashion designer)
- 1942: [Jerry Garcia]? (guitarist, lyricist, singer) (Grateful Dead)
- 1942: [Sjoukje Dijkstra]? (figure skater)
- 1953: [Robert Cray]? (singer)
- 1959: [Joe Elliot]? (singer) ([Def Leppard]?)
- 1960: Chuck D (rapper) (Public Enemy)
- 1963: Coolio? (rapper)
- 1973: [Tempestt Bledsoe]? (actress)
Deaths:
July 31 - August 2 - July 1 - September 1 - more historical anniversaries
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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