About August 1
August 1, 2025 is the 213th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 200 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 1
- 527 –Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
- 902 –Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army.
- 1203 –Isaac II Angelus, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexius IV Angelus co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
- 1664 –The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
- 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.
- 1831 –A new London Bridge opens.
- 1840 –Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- 1855 –The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
- 1876 –Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
- 1907 –The start of first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
- 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).
- 1960 –Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
- 1964 –The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo.
- 1966 –Charles Whitman kills 16 people at The University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
- 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
- 2007 –The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
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