About August 1
August 1, 2020 is the 214th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 195 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 1
- 607 –Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
- 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.
- 1291 –The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
- 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.
- 1834 –Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
- 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.
- 1944 –The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
- 1960 –Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
- 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.
- 1966 –Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People’s Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
- 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.
- 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.
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