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 214^th 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.

August 1 Historical Events

• 69 –
  Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
• 1203 –
  Isaac II Angelus, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexius IV Angelus co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
• 1664 –
  The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
• 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.
• 1960 –
  Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
• 1966 –
  Charles Whitman kills 16 people at The University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
• 1966 –
  Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People’s Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
• 1984 –
  Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England.
• 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?

• 10 BC –
  Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. 54)
• 126 –
  Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
• 1313 –
  Emperor Kōgon of Japan (d. 1364)
• 1555 –
  Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
• 1818 –
  Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
• 1893 –
  King Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
• 1924 –
  Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
• 1963 –
  Coolio, American rapper
• 1984 –
  Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
• 1985 –
  Stuart Holden, American footballer

Who died on August 1?

• 1541 –
  Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
• 1714 –
  Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
• 1787 –
  Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
• 1795 –
  Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist(b. 1735)
• 1812 –
  Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
• 1922 –
  Donát Bánki, Hungarian mechanical engineer (b. 1856)
• 1974 –
  Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1996 –
  Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
• 2008 –
  Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
• 2009 –
  Corazon Aquino, Former President of the Philippines (b. 1933)