About August 1
August 1, 2024 is the 214th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 181 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 1
- 30 BC –Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
- 69 –Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
- 607 –Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
- 1498 –Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
- 1759 –Seven 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.
- 1801 –First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
- 1838 –Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- 1842 –The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
- 1927 –The 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.
- 1937 –Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution “Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH” to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
- 1957 –The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
- 1966 –Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People’s Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
- 1968 –The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
- 1975 –CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
- 1980 –Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.
- 1980 –Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the country’s first democratically elected female head of state
- 1981 –MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles.
- 1984 –Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England.
- 2001 –Alabama 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.
- 2004 –A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.
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