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August 1st is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining.

Events

500-1899

527 - Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor.

1291 - The Swiss Confederation is formed.

1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain.

1461 - Edward IV crowned king of England.

1498 - Christopher Columbus is the first European to visit Venezuela.

1619 - First African slaves landed in Jamestown, Virginia.

1774 - The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley.

1776 - Formal signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.

1794 - The Whiskey Rebellion begins in Pennsylvania.

1798 - Battle of the Nile starts between French and British fleets.

1820 - London's Regent's Canal opens.

1831 - London Bridge opens.

1832 - Black Hawk War ends.

1834 - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.

1838 - Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated.

1864 - Foundation of Elgin Watch Company in Elgin, Illinois

1876 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.

1894 - War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

1900-1999

1902 - The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.

1907 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.

1914 - Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.

1927 - The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China.

1936 - The Berlin Olympic Games are opened.

1941 - The first Jeep is produced.

1944 - Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.

1944 - Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.

1957 - The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).

1960 - Benin declares independence from France

1961 - Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park, opens.

1965 - Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.

1966 - Charles Whitman kills 15 people shooting from a tower at the University of Texas in Austin, in the United States, 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.

1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.

1971 - George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York City features, among others, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Leon Russell.

1981 - First broadcasts by MTV. The first video played was Video Killed The Radio Star by Buggles.

1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumours that they had married eleven weeks earlier.

1996 - Olympic Games: Michael Johnson wins the 200 meters in 19.32 seconds, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.

2000-2099

2001 - In talks between the government and representatives of the Albanian minority in the Republic of Macedonia, an agreement is reached on the position of the Albanian language in the Republic.

2001 - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.

2004 - 215 people are killed and 300 injured in a supermarket fire in Asuncion, Paraguay.

Births

In the Southern Hemisphere, August 1 is the Horse's Birthday, the day all horses are considered to have been born for recordkeeping and competition purposes. January 1 is the equivalent in the Northern Hemisphere.