August 1

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[[fr:1er ao�t]] August 1st is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining.

Events

527 - Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor.
1119 - The crusaders are beaten in the Battle of Sarmada.
1245 - First Council of Lyons opens.
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 discovers Venezuela.
1519 - Charles V elected emperor of Germany.
1619 - First Black slaves landed in Jamestown, Virginia.
1635 - Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
1774 - The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley.
1776 - Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence.
1790 - The first census of the United States is completed. The total population of the 13 states was 3,929,214.
1798 - Battle of the Nile starts between French and British fleets.
1831 - London Bridge opens.
1832 - Black Hawk War ends.
1834 - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
1838 - Victoria crowned queen of Britain.
1864 - General Philip Sheridan takes command of the Army of the Shenandoah.
1859 - First dog show held, in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.
1873 - First cable car begins service in San Francisco, California.
1876 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. 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 buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.
1909 - United States Army Air Corps founded.
1914 - Germany declares war on Russia.
1917 - Battle of Third Ypres
1936 - The Berlin Olympic Games are opened.
1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
1941 - The first Jeep is produced.
1943 - PT-109, with Lieutenant John F. Kennedy aboard, sinks.
1944 - Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
1944 - An uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
1950 - King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates.
1957 - The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
1964 - North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin.
1965 - President Johnson authorizes the first use of American ground troops in the Vietnam War.
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 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.
1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait.
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 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.

Births

10 BC - Claudius (+ 54), Roman emperor
126 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (+ 193)
1367 - Sigismund, emperor of Hungary and king of Bohemia
1476 - Pope Paul IV
1744 - Jean Baptiste Lamarck, scientist (+ 1829)
1770 - William Clark, explorer (+ 1838)
1779 - Francis Scott Key, composer of "The Star-Spangled Banner" (+ 1843)
1818 - Maria Mitchell, astronomer
1819 - Herman Melville, writer (+ 1891)
1824 - Paul Broca, anthropologist
1863 - Gaston Doumergue, politician and president of France (+ 1937)
1885 - George de Hevesy, chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943 (+ 1966)
1921 - Jack Kramer, tennis star
1922 - Arthur Hill, actor
1925 - Ernst Jandl, writer (+ 2000)
1930 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (+ 2002)
1931 - Tom Wilson, cartoonist (Ziggy)
1933 - Dom DeLuise, actor, comedian
1936 - Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer
1937 - Senator Alfonse D'Amato from New York
1942 - Jerry Garcia, guitarist, lyricist, singer (The Grateful Dead) (+ 1995)
1942 - Sjoukje Dijkstra, figure skater
1950 - Jim Carroll, poet, actor
1953 - Robert Cray, singer
1959 - Joe Elliot, rock and roll musician (Def Leppard)
1960 - Chuck D, rapper (Public Enemy)
1963 - Coolio, rapper
1965 - Sam Mendes, film director
1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, actress
1981 - Ashley Parker Angel, singer
It is also recognised that August 1 is the "Horse's Birthday" for every horse, regardless of their actual date of birth.

Deaths

527 - Justin I, Byzantine Emperor
1598 - Abraham Ortelius, cartographer
1836 - James Madison, President of the United States 1809-1817
1876 - Wild Bill Hickock, gunfighter
1889 - Maria Mitchell, astronomer
1917 - Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, Montana
1923 - Warren G. Harding, United States President
1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor of Germany
1964 - Johnny Burnett, singer (boating accident)
1970 - Frances Farmer, actress
1977 - Francis Gary Powers, pilot
1989 - Joris Ivens, movie director
1992 - Mikhail Tal, world chess champion
2001 - Poul Anderson, fantasy and science fiction writer

Holidays and observances

Angola - Armed Forces Day
Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago - Emancipation Day
Benin - National Day
China - Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese PLA
Democratic Republic of Congo - Parent's Day
Nicaragua - Fiesta Day
Rastafarianism - Celebration of the liberation of Haile Selassie from slavery
Switzerland - National Day
Bah&aacute'&iacute Faith - Feast of Kamál (Perfection) - First day of the eighth month of the Bahá'í Calendar