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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
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1902 - The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.
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1907 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.
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1914 - Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.
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1927 - The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China.
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1936 - The Berlin Olympic Games are opened.
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1941 - The first Jeep is produced.
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1944 - Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
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1944 - Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
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1957 - The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
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1960 - Benin declares independence from France
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1961 - Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park, opens.
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1965 - Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.
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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.
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1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
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1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival
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1971 - George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York City features, among others, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Leon Russell.
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1981 - First broadcasts by MTV. The first video played was Video Killed The Radio Star by Buggles.
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1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumours that they had married eleven weeks earlier.
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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
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10 BC - Claudius, Roman emperor (d. AD 54)
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126 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
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1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, scientist (d. 1829)
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1770 - William Clark, explorer (d. 1838)
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1779 - Francis Scott Key, writer of "The Star-Spangled Banner" (d. 1843)
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1815 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr., lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882)
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1818 - Maria Mitchell, astronomer (d. 1889)
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1819 - Herman Melville, writer (d. 1891)
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1858 - Hans Rott, composer (d. 1884)
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1885 - George de Hevesy, chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943 (d. 1966)
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1891 - Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
1900-1999
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1921 - Jack Kramer (tennis player), tennis star
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1922 - Arthur Hill , actor
- 1922 - Pat McDonald, soap opera actress (d. 1990)
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1925 - Ernst Jandl, writer (d. 2000)
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1927 - Raymond Leppard, English conductor
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1930 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
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1931 - Tom Wilson, cartoonist (Ziggy)
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1932 - Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
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1933 - Dom DeLuise, actor, comedian
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1936 - Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer
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1937 - Al D'Amato, U.S. senator from New York
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1942 - Jerry Garcia, guitarist, lyricist, singer (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
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1942 - Sjoukje Dijkstra , figure skater
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1946 - Fiona Stanley, epidemiologist
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1950 - Jim Carroll, poet, actor
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1953 - Robert Cray, blues singer
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1955 - Trevor Berbick, boxer
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1956 - Tom Leykis, radio personality
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1959 - Joe Elliott, rock and roll musician (Def Leppard)
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1960 - Chuck D, rapper (Public Enemy)
- 1960 - Richard Roeper, columnist for Chicago Sun-Times, film critic partner of Roger Ebert
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1963 - Coolio, rapper
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1965 - Sam Mendes, film director
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1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, actress
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1975 - Omar Bakht , friendly guy
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1978 - Edgerrin James, American football player
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1981 - Ashley Parker Angel , singer
Deaths
300-1899
1900-1999
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1917 - Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, Montana
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1923 - Warren G. Harding, United States President (b. 1865)
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1964 - Johnny Burnett, singer (b. 1934)
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1970 - Frances Farmer, actress (b. 1913)
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1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer
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1977 - Gary Powers, pilot (b. 1929)
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1981 - Paddy Chayefsky, writer (b. 1923)
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1989 - John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
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1990 - Graham Young, British serial killer, (b. 1947)
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1992 - Mikhail Tal, world chess champion (b. 1936)
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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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