About August 1
August 1, 2023 is the 213th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 193 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.
- 527 –Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
- 607 –Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1894 –The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
- 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.
- 1944 –The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
- 1974 –Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the “Green Line”, dividing Cyprus into two zones.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2007 –The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
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