Notable Historical Events on August 1st
August 1st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
30 |
Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic. |
BC AD | |
527 |
Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire |
607 |
Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607). |
649 |
Pope Martinus I chosen successor of Theodorus I [or 8/7] |
860 |
Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German & Lotharius II |
902 |
Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily |
1021 |
Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest |
1086 |
Results of the Domesday inquiry presented to William the Conqueror in Salisbury (the date of compilation and the Great Domesday are historically contestable) |
1177 |
Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I & Pope Alexander III |
1203 |
Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium |
1291 |
Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence) |
1485 |
Henry Tudor's army sails to England (future Henry VII) |
1498 |
Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela) |
1589 |
Assination of French King Henry III by friar Jacques Clément |
1626 |
Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal |
1628 |
Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism |
1664 |
Battle at St Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Kiprulu |
1690 |
Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus of Savoy |
1711 |
Surrounded Tsar Peter the Great flees Azov |
1714 |
Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes King George I of England |
1715 |
First Doggett's Coat and Badge race (Waterman's race) held on Thames River (London Bridge to Chelsea) |
1732 |
Foundations laid for Bank of England |
1759 |
Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France |
1774 |
Joseph Priestley, English theologian, chemist and author discovers oxygen |
1780 |
Sweden declares neutrality |
1781 |
British army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia |
1785 |
Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet |
1789 |
US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act |
1793 |
France becomes 1st country to use the metric system |
1794 |
Whiskey Rebellion begins in western Pennsylvania |
1798 |
Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet |
1812 |
Rare tornado hits Westchester County NY |
1814 |
Belgian King Willem I accepts blame in Southern defeat |
1820 |
London's Regent's Canal opens. |
1828 |
Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic. |
1831 |
London Bridge opens to traffic |
1832 |
The Black Hawk War ends. |
1834 |
Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire - Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect |
1836 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin returns to Bahia Brazil |
1838 |
Apprenticeship system abolished in most of the British Empire. Former slaves no longer indentured to former owners. |
1840 |
Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated. |
1842 |
Rotherhithe Tunnel under the Thames opens |
1842 |
Lombard Street Riot erupts |
1852 |
SF Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist |
1855 |
Castle Clinton in NYC opens as 1st US receiving station for immigrants |
1861 |
Brazil recognizes Confederacy |
1863 |
Battle of Little Rock, Arkansas; start of Chattanooga campaign |
1863 |
Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign |
1864 |
Battle of Petersburg, VA |
1867 |
Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tenn) |
1869 |
1st voyage down Colorado River |
1870 |
Irish Land Act gives rights to tenants of landlords in Ireland. |
1873 |
SF's 1st cable car begins service |
1876 |
Colorado becomes 38th state of the Union |
1881 |
US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, SF Bay |
1883 |
A papyrus offered to British Museum for £10,000 (forgery) |
1883 |
Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights |
1883 |
Inland postal service begins in Great Britain |
1886 |
Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand |
1890 |
Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi |
1893 |
Henry Perky & William Ford patent shredded wheat |
1896 |
George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (NY to England) |
1901 |
Burials within San Francisco City limits prohibited |
1902 |
Building begins on Dutch public housing |
1902 |
Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia (100 die) |
1903 |
1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed |
1906 |
Brooklyn Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th |
1907 |
Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF |
1907 |
Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division |
1907 |
First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island, in Poole Harbour, Dorset |
1909 |
British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed |
1911 |
Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point |
1911 |
Transportation workers begin a major strike in England; part of a wave of industrial unrest |
1914 |
British fleet reaches Scapa Flow |
1914 |
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II (WW I) of Russia in WWI |
1914 |
France & Germany mobilize their troops at outbreak of WWI |
1914 |
Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enters Luxembourg on outbreak of WWI |
1916 |
Hawaii National Park forms |
1917 |
Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT |
1918 |
British troops enter Vladivostok |
1918 |
Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings |
1919 |
Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam |
1919 |
Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek |
1920 |
Papendrecht soccer team forms |
1920 |
Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia |
1922 |
Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard |
1925 |
Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk & Netherland East-Indies |
1926 |
Battles between Druze & French in Damascus |
1926 |
Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona |
1927 |
Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards |
1928 |
Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 & is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace |
1933 |
Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1/3) |
1933 |
Death penality for anti-fascists in Germany |
1933 |
Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrests Sukarno |
1933 |
NRA (National Recovery Administration) forms |
1936 |
Adolf Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin |
1936 |
Benjamin E Mays named president of Morehouse College |
1941 |
Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division |
1941 |
NY Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St L 0) |
1941 |
The first Jeep is produced. |
1942 |
Deurne soccer team forms |
1942 |
German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers |
1942 |
Race riots in Harlem, New York |
1943 |
Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw |
1943 |
Race riot in Harlem NYC |
1943 |
Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 & U-383 |
1944 |
Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East |
1944 |
Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested |
1944 |
General Montgomery takes command of 12th & 21st army |
1944 |
US 90th division occupies St Hilaire-du-Harcourt |
1944 |
US troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir |
1944 |
Uprising in Warsaw |
1945 |
Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's |
1945 |
Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx) |
1945 |
SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld |
1946 |
US President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) |
1947 |
"Medium & The Telephone" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 211 perfs |
1947 |
Valleivogels soccer team forms in Scherpenzeel |
1948 |
The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded. |
1950 |
1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons) |
1950 |
American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule |
1950 |
Guam Organic Act by establishes Guam as US territory |
1950 |
King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King |
1951 |
David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election |
1953 |
California introduces sales tax (for education) |
1953 |
Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba |
1953 |
KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, MO (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland |
1953 |
Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief |
1954 |
Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France |
1954 |
WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
In South Africa, The Natives Resettlement Act empowers the Government to remove Africans from any area within and next to the magisterial district of Johannesburg; less than a year after the Act was passed Sophiatown residents were forcefully removed to Meadowlands in Soweto |
1955 |
1st microgravity research begins |
1955 |
Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca government |
1955 |
WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
1st commercial building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM) |
1957 |
Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln) |
1957 |
Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10") |
1957 |
US & Canada create North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) |
1958 |
US 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years) |
1958 |
US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st begins transit of North Pole "operation Sunshine" |
1959 |
New Continental baseball league formed |
1959 |
Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia |
1959 |
WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
Aretha Franklins 1st recording session |
1960 |
Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France |
1960 |
Chubby Checker releases "The Twist" |
1960 |
Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan. |
1961 |
Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford |
1961 |
German DR limits traffic to West Berlin |
1961 |
New SF Hall of Justice opens |
1961 |
Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League |
1962 |
Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0 |
1962 |
Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana |
1963 |
Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale |
1963 |
Germany FR annexes Elten village |
1963 |
WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1964 |
ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation |
1964 |
Beatles' single "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks |
1965 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
1966 |
Charles Whitman wounds 31 & kills 16 at University of Texas |
1967 |
Izaak Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam |
1967 |
WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins |
1968 |
Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo |
1968 |
WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei. |
1969 |
110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival |
1969 |
36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208) |
1969 |
Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars |
1970 |
EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wi |
1970 |
KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game |
1971 |
CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII |
1971 |
George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC |
1971 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
1972 |
1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward) |
1972 |
Nate Colbert of SD Padres hits record tying 5 HRs in a double header |
1973 |
H J Witteveen appointed as director of IMF |
1973 |
Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park |
1974 |
Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr J" Erving to NY Nets |
1974 |
China's People's Liberation Army Navy, put into service ChangZheng 1, their first nuclear-powered submarine |
1975 |
38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord |
1975 |
41st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103) |
1975 |
Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of NY Yankees |
1975 |
Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations |
1975 |
CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe. |
1976 |
21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada |
1976 |
Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colo on Route 34, kills 139 |
1976 |
Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20) |
1977 |
SF Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer |
1977 |
Former Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he was flying in Los Angeles |
1978 |
Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games |
1978 |
Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead |
1979 |
Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal |
1980 |
Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record |
1980 |
Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon (2:11:03 |
1980 |
Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland. |
1981 |
MTV premieres at 12:01 AM |
1981 |
Poland premier Jagielski resigns |
1982 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
1982 |
Greg Louganis, US becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives |
1982 |
H Aaron, F Robinson, T Jackson, & H Chandler inducted in Hall of Fame |
1982 |
Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut |
1982 |
Petra Schneider swims world record 400m medley (4:36.10) |
1983 |
New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England |
1985 |
15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record) |
1985 |
Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time |
1985 |
Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74 |
1986 |
Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000 |
1986 |
Cleveland sets AL attendance record for twi-night doubleheader, 65,934 |
1986 |
Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma |
1987 |
Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada |
1987 |
Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
1987 |
Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America |
1987 |
In New Zealand, the Maori Language Act comes into force, making te reo Māori an official language of New Zealand; it can now be used in some legal proceedings. |
1988 |
Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon |
1988 |
Rush Limbaugh begins his national radio show. |
1989 |
Australia take 3-0 series lead over England to regain Cricket Ashes |
1990 |
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 149 perfs |
1990 |
Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game |
1990 |
Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait |
1990 |
Soyuz TM-10 launches |
1990 |
Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs |
1991 |
Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida |
1991 |
Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires |
1992 |
"Salome" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 9 performances |
1992 |
NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres |
1992 |
USA/USSR Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica |
1993 |
"In the Summer House" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 25 perfs |
1993 |
"She Loves Me" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances |
1993 |
Missie Berteott wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship |
1993 |
Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY |
1993 |
Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack |
1994 |
99.9°F (37.7°C) in Berlin-Dahlem: record |
1994 |
The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour |
1994 |
Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed |
1995 |
Westinghouse purchases CBS-TV network |
1996 |
M2, MTV's second TV channel is launched |
1998 |
-8] Gay & Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam |
2000 |
First patient to receive the Jarvik 2000, the first total artificial heart that can maintain blood flow in addition to generating a pulse |
2001 |
An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia. |
2001 |
Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency. |
2001 |
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office. |
2004 |
A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay. |
2007 |
The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour. |
2010 |
A 200x250 photo mosaic of President Corazon Aquino was unveiled near the Quirino Grandstand at the Luneta Park, Manila in commemoration of her first death anniversay and it has been submitted to the Guinness World Records to be certified as the largest photo mosaic in the world. |
2012 |
Typhoon Saola kills elven people and displaces over 150,000 in the Philippines |
2012 |
8 Women's badminton doubles players are disqualified from the 2012 summer Olympics for "not using one's best efforts to win a match" |
2013 |
Robert Mugabe continues to maintain power after winning 142 out of 210 seats in the Zimbabwean election |
2016 |
Tennis-Djokovic beats Nishikori in Rogers Cup final |
2016 |
Jimmy Walker captures PGA Championship for first major title |
2017 |
Anthony Scaramucci out as White House communications director |
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