Historical Events on August 1

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• 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 Bald, Louis the German & Lotharius II
• 902 Aghlabid emir Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya destroys Taormina, Sicily
• 1021 Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest

• 1177 Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I and 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)

• 1589 Assassination of French King Henry III by friar Jacques Clément
• 1626 Earl Earnest Casimir conquers Oldenzaal

• 1664 Battle at St Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Kiprulu
• 1690 Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus of Savoy

• 1715 First Doggett's Coat and Badge race (Waterman's race) held on Thames River (London Bridge to Chelsea)
• 1717 Nicholas Rowe is appointed British Poet Laureate by George I
• 1720 South Sea bubble reaches a frenzy in London as the stock price of the South Sea Company peaks at £1,000, collapses soon after and falls to £124 by December
• 1732 Foundations laid for Bank of England
• 1759 Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France

• 1780 Sweden declares neutrality

• 1785 Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman to discover 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

• 1812 Rare tornado hits Westchester County, NY
• 1814 Dutch 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.

• 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 in Philadelphia [1] [2]
• 1852 San Francisco 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
• 1867 Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tennessee)
• 1869 1st voyage down Colorado River
• 1870 Irish Land Act gives rights to tenants of landlords in Ireland
• 1876 Colorado becomes 38th state of the Union
• 1881 US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, San Francisco 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
• 1888 The roof of Seville's cathedral collapses after an earthquake

• 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)
• 1906 Brooklyn Superbas MLB pitcher Harry McIntire no-hits Pittsburgh for 10 2/3 innings but loses in 13th, 1-0 on an unearned run
• 1907 U.S. Army Signal Corps establish a small Aeronautical Division

• 1907 First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island, in Poole Harbour, Dorset
• 1909 Tour de France: François Faber of Luxembourg becomes the first foreigner to win the cycling classic

• 1911 Transportation workers begin a major strike in England; part of a wave of industrial unrest
• 1914 British Grand Fleet reaches Scapa Flow

• 1914 France and 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, Montana
• 1918 British troops enter Vladivostok
• 1918 Pittsburgh and Boston Braves play a MLB record 20 scoreless innings before Pirates win, 2-0 in 21

• 1920 Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia
• 1922 Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard
• 1922 In Italy, the socialist 'Alianza del Lavoro' declare a national strike which collapses immediately and fascist forces destroy union and socialist headquarters
• 1924 Brooklyn pitcher Dazzy Vance strikes out a MLB record 7 consecutive batters as the Robins beat Cubs, 4-0
• 1925 Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk and Netherland East-Indies
• 1926 Battles between Druze & French in Damascus
• 1926 Failed assassination on General Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
• 1927 Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards

• 1928 Americans sweep medals at a rainy Olympic pole vault final in Amsterdam with Sabin Carr gold, from William Droegemuller and Charles McGinnis
• 1932 George Washington quarter goes into circulation

• 1933 Death penalty for anti-fascists in Germany

• 1934 2nd Venice Film Festival opens
• 1934 US Amateur Golf Championship format is changed to a 6-day event with no 36-hole stroke-play qualifying, and 36-hole matches for semi-finals and final

• 1936 Benjamin Mays named president of Morehouse College
• 1941 Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division
• 1941 NY Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez sets MLB record for most walks in a shutout, issuing 11 in 9-0 win v St. Louis Browns
• 1941 The first Jeep is produced.
• 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 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 Polish resistance fighters of the Home Army launch the Warsaw Uprising, the largest military effort undertaken by a resistance movement in occupied Europe
• 1945 Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's
• 1945 NY Giants outfielder Mel Ott hits historic 500th MLB home run off Braves Johnny Hutchings, joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx as only players to reach milestone

• 1947 "Medium & The Telephone" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 211 performances
• 1948 The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.


• 1950 American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule
• 1950 Guam Organic Act establishes Guam as an unincorporated US territory
• 1950 King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King

• 1953 California introduces sales tax (for education)

• 1953 KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, Missouri (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, Oregon (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
• 1953 Boston Red Sox pitcher Ben Flowers sets then MLB record of 8 consecutive games in relief
• 1954 WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1954 South African Natives Resettlement Act comes into being, empowers the Government to remove Africans from any area within and next to the magisterial district of Johannesburg
• 1954 Tour de France: Louison Bobet of France wins by 15' 49" from Ferdinand Kübler, for the second of his 3 consecutive wins
• 1955 1st microgravity research begins
• 1955 Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca government
• 1955 WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1956 KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, California (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1957 1st commercial building heated by Sun (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

• 1957 Ex MLB outfielder Glen Gorbous throws a regulation baseball a record 136m (445' 10") in a game promotion
• 1957 US and 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 submarine USS Nautilus begins 1st transit of North Pole "operation Sunshine"

• 1959 WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting

• 1960 Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
• 1960 Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.

• 1961 German DR limits traffic to West Berlin


• 1961 New San Francisco Hall of Justice opens
• 1961 Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League
• 1962 Boston Red Sox pitcher 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, Illinois (ABC) begins broadcasting

• 1964 ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation
• 1964 Beatles' single "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
• 1964 Dan 'Big Daddy' Garlits becomes first drag racer to run the 1/4 mile at over 200mph (201.34mph at Island Dragway, New Jersey)
• 1965 Scottish Lotus driver Jim Clark wins the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring to clinch his second F1 World Drivers Championship
• 1966 Charles Whitman wounds 31 and kills 16 at University of Texas
• 1966 Yakubu Gowon becomes Nigerian Head of State after a military coup d'état
• 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 Chicago Charities College All-Star Game: NY Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208)
• 1969 Mariner 6 sends close-up photos of Mars
• 1970 EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wi
• 1970 KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1970 Future Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Stargell smacks 3 doubles and 2 homers in a 20-10 Pirates win v Braves
• 1970 2nd San Diego Comic-Con International opens at U.S. Grant Hotel
• 1971 CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII

• 1972 1st article exposing Watergate scandal by Bernstein and Woodward in "The Washington Post"
• 1972 Nate Colbert hits MLB record tying 5 HRs and record 13 RBI as Padres beat Atlanta 9-0, 11-7 in a doubleheader

• 1973 H J Witteveen appointed as director of IMF
• 1973 MLB All Star catchers Thurman Munson of the NY Yankees and Boston Red Sox' Carlton Fisk brawl at home plate Fenway Park; Red Sox win, 3-2
• 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 Chicago Charities College All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103)
• 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 XXI Summer Olympic Games, Montreal, Canada: Officially close
• 1976 Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colo on Route 34, kills 139
• 1976 Seattle Seahawks take the field for the first time in pre-season game v SF 49ers at the newly constructed Kingdome in Seattle

• 1977 Former Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he was flying in Los Angeles

• 1978 Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead
• 1979 Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal

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