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 213th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 19, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,233,440 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 ‘dihectadecatrigon’ day.
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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 200 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 4,606 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 1 Historical Events
- 527 –Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
- 902 –Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army.
- 1291 –The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
- 1759 –Seven Years’ War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
- 1831 –A new London Bridge opens.
- 1876 –Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
- 1966 –Charles Whitman kills 16 people at The University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
- 1968 –The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
- 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.
Who were born on August 1?
- 1892 –Kinsan Ginsan, Japanese identical twins who lived to ages 107 and 108, respectively.
- 1931 –Trevor Goddard, Former South African cricketer
- 1947 –Dennis Zine, Los Angeles city councilman
- 1952 –Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
- 1958 –Tor Håkon Holte, Norwegian cross country skier
- 1970 –David James, English footballer
- 1975 –Teresa Mak, Hong Kong actress
- 1978 –Dhani Harrison, English musician
- 1979 –Honeysuckle Weeks, Welsh-born actress
- 1985 –Stuart Holden, American footballer
Who died on August 1?
- 1464 –Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
- 1922 –Donát Bánki, Hungarian mechanical engineer (b. 1856)
- 1970 –Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883)
- 1974 –Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
- 1977 –Francis Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
- 1996 –Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
- 1996 –Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
- 2005 –Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
- 2005 –King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
- 2010 –Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby and cricket international player and referee/umpire (b. 1910)
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