Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 1
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Joseph Priestley -
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The Aguda building in Tel Aviv, 18 days before the shooting attack took place -
Herman Melville -
Head of Lindow Man -
Bastian Schweinsteiger
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Swiss National Day; | refimprove |
| Lammas in England and Scotland | refimprove section; CN tags (14) |
| ; Independence Day in Benin (1960) | refimprove section |
| 1291 – Three Swiss cantons signed the Federal Charter to form the Old Swiss Confederacy. | refimprove section |
| 1715 – Introduced during a time of civil disturbance in Great Britain, the Riot Act came into force, authorising authorities to declare any group of twelve or more people to be unlawfully assembled. | refimprove section |
| 1907 – Robert Baden-Powell held the first Scout camp at Brownsea Island in Dorset, England, beginning the Scouting movement. | page numbers needed |
| 1927 – In the Nanchang uprising, the first major engagement in the Chinese Civil War, Communist forces seized control over the entire city of Nanchang from the Kuomintang. | needs more footnotes |
| 1944 – World War II: The Polish Home Army began the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation of Poland, a rebellion that lasted 63 days until it was quelled by the Germans. | lots of CN tags (19), refimprove section |
| 1966 – Charles Whitman opened fire from an observation deck on the tower of the University of Texas at Austin, killing 10 people before being shot and killed by police. | Refimprove section |
| Mark Antony |d|30 BC| | Too much uncited |
| Sabbatai Zevi |b|1626| | Lift of Jewish encyclopedia is PD but uses a lot of peacock/hyperbole |
| Bastian Schweinsteiger |b|1984| | Birthday uncited |
| Fahd of Saudi Arabia |d|2005| | Too much uncited |
Eligible
- 30 BC – War of Actium: Octavian defeated the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra at Alexandria, establishing Roman Egypt.
- 902 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Led by Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, Aghlabid forces captured the Byzantine stronghold of Taormina, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
- 1714 – George Louis, Elector of Hanover, became King George I of Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era.
- 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley (pictured) liberated oxygen gas, corroborating the discovery of the element by the German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
- 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile, between a British fleet commanded by Horatio Nelson and a French fleet under François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, began at Aboukir Bay off the Egyptian coast.
- 1801 – First Barbary War: USS Enterprise, an American schooner, captured the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of Libya.
- 1842 – Three days of rioting erupted after a parade in Philadelphia, celebrating the end of slavery in the West Indies, was attacked by a mob.
- 1876 – Colorado was admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
- 1892 – Jef Denyn hosted the world's first carillon concert at St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium.
- 1911 – Harriet Quimby became the first woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator certificate.
- 1946 – Several days of anti-Jewish rioting began in Bratislava, instigated by former Slovak partisans opposed to the restitution of Jewish property after the Holocaust in Slovakia.
- 1981 – "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles became the first music video broadcast on the American cable television network MTV.
- 1984 – Commercial peat cutters discovered a preserved bog body, now known as Lindow Man (head pictured), at Lindow Moss in Cheshire, England.
- 1991 – U.S. president George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev warning against independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2009 – A shooting at a branch of the Israeli LGBT organization the Aguda in Tel Aviv resulted in two deaths.
- Born/died this day: | Pertinax |b|126| Æthelwold of Winchester |d|984| Adhemar of Le Puy |d|1098| Elizabeth Randles |b|1800| Maria Mitchell |b|1818| Herman Melville |b|1819| Robert Todd Lincoln |b|1843| Gaston Doumergue |b|1858| John Lester |b|1871| Alan Moore |b|1914| Lydia Litvyak |d|1943| Doris Fleeson |d|1970| Walter Ulbricht |d|1973| Oliver Dowden |b|1978| Abdalqadir as-Sufi |d|2021|
August 1: Lughnasadh in the Northern Hemisphere; Buwan ng Wika begins in the Philippines; PLA Day in China (1927)
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Cars on the I-35W bridge after the collapse
- 527 – Upon the death of Justin I, his nephew and adopted son Justinian I became the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1814 – Britain celebrated a Grand Jubilee to mark 100 years since the accession of George I and 16 years since the start of the Battle of the Nile.
- 1971 – The Concert for Bangladesh, a pair of benefit concerts organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar for refugees of the Bangladesh genocide, took place at Madison Square Garden in New York.
- 2004 – Nearly 400 people died in a supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, when exits were locked to prevent people from stealing merchandise.
- 2007 – Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, United States, suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed (aftermath pictured), killing 13 people and injuring 145 others.
- Andrew Melville (b. 1545)
- Helen Sawyer Hogg (b. 1905)
- Frances Farmer (d. 1970)
- Lolita Lebrón (d. 2010)