The Ultimate August 1 - American History Information Guide and Reference

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

Contents

1 Events

1.1 500-1899
1.2 1900-1999
1.3 2000-2099

2 Births

2.1 10 BC-AD 1899
2.2 1900-1999

3 Deaths

3.1 300-1899
3.2 1900-1999
3.3 2000-2099

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

Events

500-1899

527 - 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, Illinois
1876 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

1900-1999

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.
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 France
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 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.

2000-2099

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 - 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.