August 1
August 1st is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years ), with 152 days remaining.
Events
500-1899
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 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
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 .
10 BC-AD 1899
10 BC - Claudius , Roman emperor (d. AD 54 )
126 - Pertinax , Roman Emperor (d. 193 )
1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck , scientist (d. 1829 )
1770 - William Clark , explorer (d. 1838 )
1779 - Francis Scott Key , writer of "The Star-Spangled Banner " (d. 1843 )
1815 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr. , lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882 )
1818 - Maria Mitchell , astronomer (d. 1889 )
1819 - Herman Melville , writer (d. 1891 )
1858 - Hans Rott , composer (d. 1884 )
1885 - George de Hevesy , chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943 (d. 1966 )
1891 - Karl Kobelt , Swiss politician (d. 1968 )
1900-1999
1921 - Jack Kramer (tennis player) , tennis star
1922 - Arthur Hill , actor
1922 - Pat McDonald , soap opera actress (d. 1990 )
1925 - Ernst Jandl , writer (d. 2000 )
1927 - Raymond Leppard , English conductor
1930 - Pierre Bourdieu , French sociologist (d. 2002 )
1931 - Tom Wilson , cartoonist (Ziggy )
1932 - Meir Kahane , founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990 )
1933 - Dom DeLuise , actor, comedian
1936 - Yves Saint Laurent , fashion designer
1937 - Al D'Amato , U.S. senator from New York
1942 - Jerry Garcia , guitarist, lyricist, singer (The Grateful Dead ) (d. 1995 )
1942 - Sjoukje Dijkstra , figure skater
1946 - Fiona Stanley , epidemiologist
1950 - Jim Carroll , poet, actor
1953 - Robert Cray , blues singer
1955 - Trevor Berbick , boxer
1956 - Tom Leykis , radio personality
1959 - Joe Elliott , rock and roll musician (Def Leppard )
1960 - Chuck D , rapper (Public Enemy )
1960 - Richard Roeper , columnist for Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
1963 - Coolio , rapper
1965 - Sam Mendes , film director
1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe , actress
1975 - Omar Bakht , friendly guy
1978 - Edgerrin James , American football player
1981 - Ashley Parker Angel , singer
Deaths
300-1899
1900-1999
1917 - Frank Little , IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, Montana
1923 - Warren G. Harding , United States President (b. 1865 )
1964 - Johnny Burnett , singer (b. 1934 )
1970 - Frances Farmer , actress (b. 1913 )
1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero , composer
1977 - Gary Powers , pilot (b. 1929 )
1981 - Paddy Chayefsky , writer (b. 1923 )
1989 - John Ogdon , English pianist (b. 1937 )
1990 - Graham Young , British serial killer , (b. 1947 )
1992 - Mikhail Tal , world chess champion (b. 1936 )
1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri , writer (b. 1897 )
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
External links
July 31 - August 2 - July 1 - September 1 -- listing of all days
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