What are the important events that happened on August 1? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 1: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 1 is the 214th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 19, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,707,840 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectadecatetragon’ day.
Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 181 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,241 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 1 Historical Events
1498 –
Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
1800 –
The Act of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1834 –
Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
1855 –
The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
1927 –
The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army.
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.
1964 –
The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo.
1966 –
Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People’s Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1968 –
The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
1984 –
Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England.
Who were born on August 1?
1545 –
Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
1843 –
Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln; 35th United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
1891 –
Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
1933 –
Jesse Corti, Venezuelan-born actor and comedian
1936 –
Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
1955 –
Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (d. 2006)
1962 –
Jacob Matlala, South African boxer
1973 –
Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer
1986 –
Andrew Taylor, English footballer
1986 –
Lucas Simón, Argentine footballer
Who died on August 1?
1137 –
King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
1457 –
Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (b. c.1406)
1787 –
Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
1922 –
Donát Bánki, Hungarian mechanical engineer (b. 1856)
1929 –
Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
1973 –
Walter Ulbricht, German communist statesman (b. 1893)
1981 –
Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
2005 –
Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
2009 –
Corazon Aquino, Former President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
2010 –
Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby and cricket international player and referee/umpire (b. 1910)
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