Events 527 - Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor. 1119 - The crusaders are beaten in the Battle of Sarmada. 1245 - First Council of Lyons opens. 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 discovers Venezuela. 1519 - Charles V elected emperor of Germany. 1619 - First Black slaves landed in Jamestown, Virginia. 1635 - Guadeloupe becomes a French colony. 1774 - The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley. 1776 - Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence. 1790 - The first census of the United States is completed. The total population of the thirteen states was 3,929,214. 1798 - Battle of the Nile starts between French and British fleets. 1831 - London Bridge opens. 1832 - Black Hawk War ends. 1834 - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire. 1838 - Victoria crowned queen of Britain. 1864 - General Philip Sheridan takes command of the Army of the Shenandoah. 1859 - First dog show held in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. 1873 - First cable car begins service in San Francisco, California. 1876 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state. 1894 - War erupts between Japan and China over Korea. 1895 - El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union. 1902 - The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France. 1909 - United States Army Air Corps founded. 1914 - Germany declares war on Russia. 1917 - Battle of Third Ypres. 1927 - Formation of the People's Liberation Army. 1936 - The Berlin Olympic Games are opened. 1941 - The first Jeep is produced. 1943 - PT-109, with Lieutenant John F. Kennedy aboard, sinks. 1944 - Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary. 1944 - An uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland. 1950 - King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates. 1957 - The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). 1964 - North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin. 1965 - President Johnson authorizes the first use of American ground troops in the Vietnam War. 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. 1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem. 1971 - George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York 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. 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait. 1991 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir accepts a formula for peace talks in the Middle East. 1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumours that they had married eleven weeks earlier. 1996 - Michael Johnson wins the 200 meters in 19.32, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds. 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. Births 10 BC - Claudius († 54), Roman emperor 126 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor († 193) 1367 - Sigismund, emperor, king of Hungary and of Bohemia 1476 - Pope Paul IV († 1559) 1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, scientist († 1829) 1770 - William Clark, explorer († 1838) 1779 - Francis Scott Key, composer of "The Star-Spangled Banner" († 1843) 1818 - Maria Mitchell, astronomer (†) 1819 - Herman Melville, writer († 1891) 1824 - Paul Broca, anthropologist (†) 1858 - Hans Rott, composer 1863 - Gaston Doumergue, politician and president of France († 1937) 1885 - George de Hevesy, chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943 († 1966) 1921 - Jack Kramer, tennis star 1922 - Arthur Hill, actor 1925 - Ernst Jandl, writer († 2000) 1930 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist († 2002) 1931 - Tom Wilson, cartoonist (Ziggy) 1933 - Dom DeLuise, actor, comedian 1936 - Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer 1937 - Senator Alfonse D'Amato from New York 1942 - Jerry Garcia, guitarist, lyricist, singer (The Grateful Dead) († 1995) 1942 - Sjoukje Dijkstra, figure skater 1950 - Jim Carroll, poet, actor 1953 - Robert Cray, singer 1959 - Joe Elliot, rock and roll musician (Def Leppard) 1960 - Chuck D, rapper (Public Enemy) 1963 - Coolio, rapper 1965 - Sam Mendes, film director 1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, actress 1981 - Ashley Parker Angel, singer 1984 - Alessandra Angleton, twin daughter of Robert Angleton and Doris Angleton 1984 - Nicole Angleton, twin daughter of Robert Angleton and Doris Angleton It is also recognised that August 1 is the "Horse's Birthday" for every horse, regardless of their actual date of birth. Deaths 371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop 1598 - Abraham Ortelius, cartographer 1836 - James Madison, President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 1876 - Wild Bill Hickock, gunfighter 1889 - Maria Mitchell, astronomer 1917 - Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, Montana 1923 - Warren G. Harding, United States President 1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor of Germany 1964 - Johnny Burnett, singer (boating accident) 1970 - Frances Farmer, actress 1977 - Gary Powers, pilot 1989 - Joris Ivens, movie director 1992 - Mikhail Tal, world chess champion Holidays and observances Angola - Armed Forces Day Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago - Emancipation Day Benin - National Day People's Republic of China - Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army Democratic Republic of Congo - Parent's Day Nicaragua - Fiesta Day Rastafarianism - Celebration of the liberation of Haile Selassie from slavery Switzerland - National Day Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Kamál (Perfection) - First day of the eighth month of the Bahá'í Calendar Lammas - Neopagan festival of Lammas See Also: July 31 - August 2 - July 1 - September 1 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December\n
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