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 213^th 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.

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.

August 1 Historical Events

• 30 BC –
  Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
• 607 –
  Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
• 1838 –
  Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
• 1855 –
  The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
• 1876 –
  Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
• 1960 –
  Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
• 1966 –
  Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People’s Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
• 1981 –
  MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles.
• 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.
• 2007 –
  The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.

Who were born on August 1?

• 1630 –
  Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
• 1856 –
  George Coulthard, Former Australian rules footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
• 1885 –
  George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
• 1901 –
  Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (d. 1925)
• 1930 –
  Lionel Bart, English song-writer (d. 1999)
• 1940 –
  Mervyn Kitchen, Former Somerset cricketer and cricket international umpire
• 1950 –
  Jim Carroll, American poet and actor (d. 2009)
• 1963 –
  Coolio, American rapper
• 1970 –
  David James, English footballer
• 1973 –
  Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer

Who died on August 1?

• 1227 –
  Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
• 1911 –
  Samuel Arza Davenport, American politician (b. 1843)
• 1917 –
  Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
• 1929 –
  Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1970 –
  Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1990 –
  Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
• 2004 –
  Philip Abelson, American physicist, (b. 1913)
• 2005 –
  Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
• 2005 –
  Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
• 2006 –
  Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)