What happened on August 1? There are more than 286 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About August 1
August 1 is the 214th day of the year 2024. There are 152 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 31st week of the year 2024.
On this day in Wykagyl, New York 10804 sunrise occured at 05:50 AM and sunset occured at 08:12 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Leo. The modern birthstone for this month is Peridot while the mystical birthstone is Diamond.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 181 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For August 1
- 30 BCOctavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
- 69Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
- 527Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
- 607Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
- 902Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army.
- 1203Isaac II Angelus, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexius IV Angelus co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
- 1291The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
- 1498Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
- 1664The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
- 1759Seven Years’ War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
- 1798French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) – Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
- 1800The 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.
- 1801First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
- 1831A new London Bridge opens.
- 1834Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
- 1838Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- 1840Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- 1842The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
- 1855The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
- 1876Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
- 1894The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
- 1907The start of first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
- 1914Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I.
- 1927The 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.
- 1937Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution “Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH” to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
- 1944The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
- 1957The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
- 1960Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
- 1960Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
- 1964The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo.
- 1966Charles Whitman kills 16 people at The University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
- 1966Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People’s Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
- 1968The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
- 1974Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the “Green Line”, dividing Cyprus into two zones.
- 1975CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
- 1980Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.
- 1980Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the country’s first democratically elected female head of state
- 1981MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles.
- 1984Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England.
- 1993The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
- 2001Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
- 2004A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.
- 2007The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
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Who Were Born On August 1?
- 10 BCClaudius, Roman Emperor (d. 54)
- 126Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
- 1313Emperor Kōgon of Japan (d. 1364)
- 1377Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
- 1545Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
- 1555Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
- 1579Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
- 1626Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (d. 1676)
- 1630Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
- 1713Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1780)
- 1714Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
- 1738Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
- 1744Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
- 1770William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838)
- 1779Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
- 1779Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
- 1815Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882)
- 1818Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
- 1819Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
- 1837Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
- 1843Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln; 35th United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
- 1856George Coulthard, Former Australian rules footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
- 1858Gaston Doumergue, French President (d. 1937)
- 1858Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
- 1861Sammy Jones, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
- 1871John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
- 1881Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
- 1885George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
- 1885George de Hevesy, Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
- 1889Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
- 1891Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
- 1892Kinsan Ginsan, Japanese identical twins who lived to ages 107 and 108, respectively.
- 1893King Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
- 1894Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
- 1900Otto Nothling, Former Australian cricketer and rugby union footballer (d. 1965)
- 1901Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (d. 1925)
- 1907Eric Shipton, British mountaineer (d. 1977)
- 1910James Henry Govier, British artist (d. 1974)
- 1910Mohammad Nissar, Indian cricketer (d. 1963)
- 1910Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
- 1911Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
- 1912Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1914J. Lee Thompson, British film director (d. 2002)
- 1916Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)
- 1916Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal
- 1921Jack Kramer, American tennis player (d. 2009)
- 1923Val Bettin, American voice actor
- 1924Frank Worrell, Former West Indian cricketer (d. 1967)
- 1924Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
- 1925Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
- 1926Theo Adam, German bass-baritone
- 1929Ann Calvello, Roller Derby queen (d. 2006)
- 1930Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (d. 1991)
- 1930Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (d. 1996)
- 1930Lionel Bart, English song-writer (d. 1999)
- 1930Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
- 1931Ramblin' Jack Elliott, American folk musician
- 1931Trevor Goddard, Former South African cricketer
- 1932Meena Kumari, Indian film actress (d. 1972)
- 1932Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
- 1933Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (d. 2009)
- 1933Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian (d. 2007)
- 1933Jesse Corti, Venezuelan-born actor and comedian
- 1933Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player
- 1934John Beck, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 2000)
- 1935Geoff Pullar, Former England cricketer
- 1936W.D. Hamilton, British evolutionary biologist (d. 2000)
- 1936Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
- 1937Al D'Amato, United States Senator from New York
- 1940Mervyn Kitchen, Former Somerset cricketer and cricket international umpire
- 1940Ram Loevy, Israeli screenwriter and director
- 1941Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1941Ron Brown, 30th U.S. Secretary of Commerce and 40th Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (d. 1996)
- 1942André Gagnon, French Canadian pianist and composer
- 1942Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor
- 1942Jerry Garcia, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
- 1944Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer
- 1945Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1945Sandi Griffiths, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show
- 1946Boz Burrell, British musician (King Crimson, Bad Company) (d. 2006)
- 1946Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
- 1946Rick Coonce, rock drummer for The Grass Roots
- 1947Chris L. Barnard, Welsh footballer
- 1947Dennis Zine, Los Angeles city councilman
- 1949Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan
- 1949Ray Nettles, professional football player (d. 2009)
- 1950Bunkhouse Buck, American professional wrestler
- 1950Jim Carroll, American poet and actor (d. 2009)
- 1951Pete Mackanin, American baseball player
- 1951Tommy Bolin, American musician (Deep Purple) (d. 1976)
- 1952Yajurvindra Singh, Former Indian cricketer
- 1952Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
- 1953Howard Kurtz, American journalist
- 1953Robert Cray, American singer
- 1954Benno Möhlmann, German footballer
- 1954James Gleick, American author, journalist, and biographer
- 1955Arun Lal, Former Indian cricketer
- 1955Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (d. 2006)
- 1956Tom Leykis, American radio personality
- 1958Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player
- 1958Michael Penn, American singer and songwriter
- 1958Rob Buck, American musician (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
- 1958Tor Håkon Holte, Norwegian cross country skier
- 1959Joe Elliott, English musician (Def Leppard)
- 1959Otomo Yoshihide, Japanese musician
- 1960Chuck D, American activist and rapper (Public Enemy)
- 1960Suzi Gardner, guitarist and songwriter (L7)
- 1962Jacob Matlala, South African boxer
- 1962Jesse Borrego, American actor
- 1963Coolio, American rapper
- 1963Dean Wareham, New Zealand musician (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean and Britta)
- 1963Demián Bichir, Mexican actor
- 1963John Carroll Lynch, American actor
- 1963Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut
- 1963Lynette Sadleir, New Zealand Olympic synchronised swimmer
- 1964Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows)
- 1965Sam Mendes, British stage and film director
- 1966James St. James, American author and nightlife personality
- 1967Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player
- 1968Dan Donegan, American musician (Disturbed)
- 1968Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Japanese baseball player
- 1968Stacey Augmon, American basketball player
- 1969David Wain, American actor
- 1969Graham Thorpe, Former England cricketer
- 1969Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player
- 1970David James, English footballer
- 1972Devon Hughes, American professional wrestler
- 1972Nicke Royale, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
- 1972Tanya Reid, Canadian actress
- 1973Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
- 1973Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer
- 1973Gregg Berhalter, American footballer
- 1973Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
- 1973Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgian athlete
- 1974Beckie Scott, Canadian cross-country skiing athlete
- 1975Teresa Mak, Hong Kong actress
- 1976Cristian Stoica, Romanian-born Italian rugby player
- 1976Hasan Şaş, Turkish footballer
- 1976Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
- 1976Søren Jochumsen, Danish footballer
- 1977Damien Saez, French musician, songwriter, and author
- 1977Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977Yoshi Tatsu, Japanese professional wrestler and boxer
- 1978Andy Blignaut, Former Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1978Dhani Harrison, English musician
- 1978Edgerrin James, American football player
- 1979Honeysuckle Weeks, Welsh-born actress
- 1979Jason Momoa, American actor
- 1979Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer
- 1980Mancini, Brazilian footballer
- 1981Ashley Parker Angel, American singer and actor
- 1981Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
- 1982Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
- 1983David Gervasi, Swiss decathlete
- 1984Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
- 1984Francesco Gavazzi, Italian cyclist
- 1984Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress
- 1985Adam Jones, American baseball player
- 1985Stuart Holden, American footballer
- 1986Andrew Taylor, English footballer
- 1986Anton Stralman, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1986Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
- 1986Lucas Simón, Argentine footballer
- 1987Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer
- 1987Rumi Hiiragi, Japanese actress
- 1987Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
- 1989Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player
- 1989Tiffany (Stephanie Hwang), American-born South Korean singer (Girls’ Generation)
- 1990Jack O'Connell, English actor (Skins)
- 1991Marco Puntoriere, Italian footballer
- 1993Leon Thomas III, American actor
- 1998Khamani Griffin, American actor
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Who Died On August 1?
- 30 BCMark Antony, Roman politician and general (b. 83 BC)
- 371St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. 283)
- 527Emperor Justin I (b. 450)
- 1137King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
- 1227Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
- 1252Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian explorer (b. c.1180)
- 1402Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
- 1457Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (b. c.1406)
- 1464Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
- 1541Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
- 1546Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
- 1557Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
- 1580Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
- 1589Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
- 1675Weetamoo, sachem of Pocasetts, a band of the Wampanoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip’s War (b. 1635)
- 1714Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
- 1787Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
- 1795Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist(b. 1735)
- 1796Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
- 1798François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
- 1807John Walker, British lexicographer (b. 1732)
- 1812Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
- 1851William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
- 1866John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
- 1903Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (b. 1853)
- 1911Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter (b. 1852)
- 1911Samuel Arza Davenport, American politician (b. 1843)
- 1917Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
- 1918John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
- 1920Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
- 1922Donát Bánki, Hungarian mechanical engineer (b. 1856)
- 1929Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
- 1938John Aasen, American actor (b. 1890)
- 1943Lydia Litvyak, Soviet female flying ace (b. 1921)
- 1944Manuel L. Quezon, First President of the Philippine Commonwealth (b. 1878)
- 1945Gyula Csortos, Hungarian film actor (b. 1883)
- 1966Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (b. 1941)
- 1967Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
- 1970Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
- 1970Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883)
- 1973Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
- 1973Walter Ulbricht, German communist statesman (b. 1893)
- 1974Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
- 1977Francis Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
- 1980Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)
- 1980Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1981Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
- 1989John Ogdon, British pianist (b. 1937)
- 1990Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)
- 1990Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
- 1996Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
- 1996Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
- 1996Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
- 1997Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
- 1998Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927)
- 1999Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
- 2001Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
- 2003Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
- 2003Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
- 2004Alexandra Scott, founder of Alex’s Lemonade Stand, (b. 1996)
- 2004Philip Abelson, American physicist, (b. 1913)
- 2005Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
- 2005Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
- 2005King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
- 2005Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
- 2006Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
- 2006Ferenc Szusza, Hungarian football player (b. 1923)
- 2006Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
- 2006Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
- 2007Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932)
- 2008Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
- 2009Corazon Aquino, Former President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
- 2010Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby and cricket international player and referee/umpire (b. 1910)
- 2010Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican nationalist (b. 1919)
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