August 1: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

• Jason Momoa (1979)

  American actor.

• Nathalie Delon (1941)
• Sam Mendes (1965)

  British film and stage director.

• Meena Kumari (1932)

  Indian actress in film (d. 1972).

• Giancarlo Giannini (1942)

  He is an Italian actor with sad eyes, and the tragicomic hero of many Wertmuller films.

• Chuck D (1960)

  American rapper and producer (Public Enemy The Bomb Squad, Confrontation Camp).

• Eduardo Noriega (1973)

  Spanish actor.

• Demián Bichir (1963)

  Mexican-American producer and actor.

• David Wain (1969)

  American screenwriter and actor.

• Geoffrey Holder (1930)

  Brazilian actor, choreographer, director, and dancer.

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• Frances Farmer (1970)

  American actress and "Miss Sex Appeal of 1937" leading lady.

• Strother Martin (1980)

  American actor, who plays western characters with grizzled accents.

• Pola Negri (1987)

  Polish-American actress.

• Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1920)

  Indian leader of the Indian Nationalist Party (Born 1856).

• Florence Eldridge (1988)

  Broadway actress, The Swan, dies at 86.

• Corazon Aquino (2009)

  Aristocratic Filipino family.

• Frida Boccara (1996)

  French singer of Italian heritage.

• Sviatoslav Richter (1997)

  Ukrainian composer and pianist (d. 1997).

• Patrick Depailler (1980)

  French race car driver, who was a participant in 95 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix.

• Alfred Manessier (1993)

  French non-figurative painter, stained-glass artist and tapestry designer, all part of the Paris Schooland the Salon de Mai.

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Western Zodiac

Leo

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• Aug 1st, 2018 After workers strike over ticketing changes, the Eiffel Tower in Paris is shut down.
• Aug 1st, 2017 Afghanistan War (2001-present: A blast at a Shia mosque in Herat in Afghanistan kills at most 29 people and injures many more.
• Aug 1st, 2016 Afghanistan War (2001-present). The Taliban claim responsibility for the truck bombing at a military base in Kabul.
• Aug 1st, 2015 Operation Martyr Yalcin - Turkey has killed approximately 260 members from the Kurdistan Workers Party during recent bombing campaigns in Turkey, northern Iraq. Although the operation was officially launched to attack ISIL, more than 90% of the attacks were directed at the PKK.
• Aug 1st, 2014 Nagorno Karabakh conflict: At least eight Azeri soldiers were killed in clashes between Armenian troops and Azeri troops near the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region. Azerbaijan claimed that Armenia also suffered losses but did not give any details.
• Aug 1st, 2013 War in Afghanistan (2001-present:) NATO forces in Afghanistan launch an inquiry after five Afghan police officers are killed and two more injured in an airstrike in Nangarhar Province by the United States.

• Aug 1st, 2012 According to a poll conducted by British Film Institute's magazine 'Sight and sound', Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 thriller suspense thriller "Vertigo" was named the greatest film of all times.
• Aug 1st, 2011 On Sunday, at least 11 people are killed, 5 suspects are also among them, and 15 more are injured in violence in China's Xinjiang. This brings the death toll up to 20 in the wake of the weekend attacks in Kashgar.
• Aug 1st, 2010 Afghanistan War
• Aug 1st, 2009 Two people were killed in a shooting attack on the Tel-Aviv Gay and Lesbian Association building, Israel.
• Aug 1st, 2008 General Motors of the USA reports a second quarter loss of US$15.5Billion, the worst in the company’s history.
• Aug 1st, 2007 13 people were killed when the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River, collapses in Minneapolis, Minnesota, between University Avenue & Washington Avenue, during rush hour.

August 1st marks the 212th day of year the Gregorian calendar;

There are 152 days remaining until the end of the year.

What day of the week is August 1st?

On August 1st, 2023 the day of the week is Tuesday.

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