About August 1
August 1, 2021 is the 213th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 184 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1834 –Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
- 1838 –Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- 1840 –Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- 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.
- 1914 –Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I.
- 1944 –The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1993 –The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
- 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.
- 2007 –The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
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