August 1

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on August 1. From 1900 until now. August 1 is under the sign of Leo. Famous birthdays on this day include Yves Saint Laurent (1936), Jason Momoa (1979) and Nathalie Delon (1941). Several movies were released around August 1 over the years, such as The Help in 2011 directed by Tate Taylor and Notorious in 1946 directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
But much more happened on August 1 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Orthodox Christianity - Procession of the Cross
Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago - Emancipation Day
St. Pellegrini/Peregrinus
Angola - Armed Forces Day
Switzerland - National Day
Benin - National Day
Bah�'f Faith - Feast of Kam�l (Perfection) - First day of the eighth month of the Bah�'f Calendar
Sts. Faith, Hope, and Charity (sisters).
Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least 5 saints: St. Ethelwolf
Yorkshire, United Kingdom - Yorkshire Day
People's Republic of China - Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army
Lughnasadh - L� L�nasa, the traditional first day of Autumn in Ireland.
Rastafari movement - Celebration of the liberation of Haile Selassie from slavery
Nicaragua - Fiesta Day
Lammas - Neopagan festival of Lammas
Lebanon - Army's Day (Eid al-Jaysh)
World Scout Day - anniversary of the first day of the Brownsea Island Camp in 1907, where Robert Baden-Powell began scouting.
Democratic Republic of Congo - Parent's Day
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Events

2018 The Eiffel Tower in Paris shuts down after workers go on a strike over ticketing changes. (Upi)
2017 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): An explosion kills at least 29 people and injures dozens more at a Shia mosque in Herat, Afghanistan. (BBC)
2016 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): The Taliban claims responsibility for a truck bombing in a military complex in Kabul. (Reuters)
2015 Operation Martyr Yalçın: Turkey has killed around 260 members of the Kurdistan Workers Party in recent bombing campaigns in Turkey and northern Iraq. Officially the operation was started to attack ISIL but over 90% of attacks were against the PKK. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
2014 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: At least eight Azeri soldiers are killed following clashes with Armenian troops on the border and near the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Azerbaijan said Armenia had also suffered losses, although it did not provide any details. (Yahoo News)
2013 War in Afghanistan (2001–present):: NATO forces in Afghanistan launch an investigation after a US airstrike in Nangarhar Province kills five Afghan policemen and injures another two. (ABC News Australia)
2012 Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 suspense thriller ''Vertigo'' is named as the greatest film of all time in a poll by the British Film Institute's ''Sight and Sound'' magazine. (BBC)
2011 At least 11 people, including 5 suspects, are killed and 15 others are injured on Sunday's violence in China's Xinjiang region, raising the death toll to 20 over the weekend attacks in Kashgar. (CRI) (The Guardian)
2010 War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
2009 A shooting attack at the Gay and Lesbian Association building in Tel-Aviv, Israel, results in the deaths of two people.
2008 General Motors of the USA announces second quarter loss of US$15.5 billion, worst in the company's history.
2007 The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge on I-35W over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota between University Avenue and Washington Avenue collapses at 6:05 pm CST during the later part of rush hour, killing 13 people.
2006 El Paso, Texas is hit by heavy, intense rain, causing much flooding and making the Rio Grande overflow its banks, reaching levels not seen in over 50 years. Roads are destroyed, dirt and rocks litter the streets. The West and Northeast sides are most heavily hit. Ciudad Juárez, across the United States-Mexico border is also devastated. (El Paso Times)
2005 Conflict in Iraq: At least six US Marines have died following an insurgent attack in Haditha, 140 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (NBC)
2004 Lawyers reveal that African American workers are to sue Eastman Kodak Co., charging that the firm paid them less and promoted them less often than white colleagues. (Reuters)
2003 North Korea agrees to multilateral talks in its nuclear standoff with Japan, South Korea, Russia, The United States, and the People's Republic of China.
2001 Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a 2.5-ton monument of the Ten Commandments (dubbed by both detractors and the media as 'Roy's Rock') surreptitiously installed in the Rotunda of the Judiciary Building.
1997 Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete their merger.
1996 Michael Johnson breaks the 200m world record by 0.30 seconds with a time of 19.32 seconds at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
1995 Westinghouse purchases CBS-TV network
1994 The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour
1993 In the Summer House opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 25 performances
1992 Salome closes at Circle in the Square Theater NYC after 9 performances
1991 Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida
1990 Soyuz TM-10 launches
1988 Deep Rover one-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon.
1987 Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America
1986 Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000
1985 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)
1984 Commercial peat-cutters discovers a the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England.
1983 America West Airlines begins operations out of Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada.
1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1981 MTV premieres at 12:01 AM
1980 Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon (2:11:03
1979 Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal
1978 Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead
1977 Former Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he is flying in Los Angeles
1976 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada
1975 38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord
1974 Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr J" Erving to the New York Nets.
1973 H J Witteveen appointed as Director of IMF
1972 First article appears exposing Watergate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward).
1971 Bangladesh refugee concert with George Harrison
1970 EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wisconsin
1969 36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208)
1968 Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins
1967 WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 andwounds 31 at University of Texas
1965 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1964 ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation
1963 Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
1962 Failed assassination on President Nkrumah of Ghana
1961 Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford
1960 Aretha Franklins 1st recording session
1959 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia
1958 US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole
1957 Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Brooklyn)
1956 KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca government
1954 Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France
1953 Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba
1950 Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act)
1948 The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
1947 Medium & The Telephone opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 211 performances
1946 US President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
1945 Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx)
1944 Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East
1943 Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw
1942 Deurne soccer team forms
1941 Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division
1940 WWII: British submarine is sunk.
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.
1936 Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
1933 Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1 / 3)
1928 Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 and is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace
1927 Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards
1926 Battles between Druzen and French in Damascus
1925 Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk and Netherlands East-Indies
1922 Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard
1920 Papendrecht soccer team forms
1919 Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam
1918 British troops enter Vladivostok
1916 Hawaii National Park established.
1914 British fleet reaches Scapa Flow
1911 Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point
1909 British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed
1907 Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division
1906 Brooklyn Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pittsburgh for 10 2 / 3 loses in 13th
1902 Building begins on Dutch public housing
1901 Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited.
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