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.
- 1291 –The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
- 1798 –French 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.
- 1800 –The 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.
- 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.
- 1831 –A new London Bridge opens.
- 1834 –Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
- 1855 –The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
- 1876 –Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
- 1894 –The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
- 1907 –The start of first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
- 1914 –Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I.
- 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).
- 1964 –The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo.
- 1981 –MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles.
- 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.
- 2007 –The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
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