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2008-08-01
Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army (China)
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Celebration of the liberation of Haile Selassie from slavery (Rastafari movement)
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Colorado statehood day (United States)
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National Farming and Agriculture Day (United Kingdom)
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Neopagan festival of Lammas (Lammas)
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Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-10-13
Births
1313-08-01 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)
1377-08-01 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
1545-08-01 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
1555-08-01 - Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
1579-08-01 - LuÃs Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
1630-08-01 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
1713-08-01 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1780)
1714-08-01 - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
1738-08-01 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
1744-08-01 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
1770-08-01 - William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838)
1779-08-01 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
1779-08-01 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
1815-08-01 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882)
1818-08-01 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
1819-08-01 - Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
1843-08-01 - Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln; United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
1858-08-01 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
1885-08-01 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1966)
1881-08-01 - Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
1889-08-01 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
1891-08-01 - Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
1893-08-01 - King Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
1894-08-01 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
1910-08-01 - James Henry Govier, British artist (d. 1974)
1910-08-01 - Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
1912-08-01 - Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
1914-08-01 - J. Lee Thompson, British film director (d. 2002)
1921-08-01 - Jack Kramer, American tennis player
1922-08-01 - Pat McDonald, Australian actress (d. 1990)
1924-08-01 - Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1925-08-01 - Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
1927-08-01 - Raymond Leppard, English conductor
1930-08-01 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
1930-08-01 - Lionel Bart, English song-writer (d. 1999)
1930-08-01 - Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (d. 1991)
1932-08-01 - Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
1933-08-01 - Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian
1936-08-01 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer
1937-08-01 - Al D'Amato, United States Senator from New York
1942-08-01 - Jerry Garcia, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
1945-08-01 - Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1946-08-01 - Sandi Griffiths, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show
1946-08-01 - Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
1949-08-01 - Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan
1950-08-01 - Jim Carroll, American poet and actor
1951-08-01 - Tommy Bolin, American guitarist
1951-08-01 - Pete Mackanin, American baseball player
1952-08-01 - Zoran ÄinÄ‘ić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
1953-08-01 - Robert Cray, American singer
1955-08-01 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer
1956-08-01 - Tom Leykis, American radio personality
1958-08-01 - Adrian Dunbar, Northern Irish actor
1958-08-01 - Robert Buck, American musician (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
1959-08-01 - Joe Elliott, English musician (Def Leppard)
1960-08-01 - Chuck D, American rapper (Public Enemy)
1960-08-01 - Richard Roeper, American newspaper columnist and film critic
1962-08-01 - Robert Clift, British field hockey player
1963-08-01 - Coolio, American rapper
1963-08-01 - John Carroll Lynch, American actor
1964-08-01 - Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows)
1965-08-01 - Sam Mendes, British stage and film director
1967-08-01 - Gregg Jefferies, baseball player
1969-08-01 - Kevin Jarvis, baseball player
1970-08-01 - David James, English footballer
1972-08-01 - Devon Hughes, US professional wrestler
1972-08-01 - Nicke Royale, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
1973-08-01 - Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
1976-08-01 - Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
1976-08-01 - Kevin Joseph, baseball player
1977-08-01 - Marc Denis, NHL hockey player
1978-08-01 - Edgerrin James, American football player
1978-08-01 - Dhani Harrison, musician
1979-08-01 - Junior Agogo, footballer
1980-08-01 - Alessandro Faiolhe Amantino Mancini, Brazilian footballer
1981-08-01 - Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
1984-08-01 - Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
Bizarre
2006-08-01 - National Raspberry Cream Pie Day
2007-08-01 - National Raspberry Cream Pie Day
Deaths
1989-08-01 - Odo, Count of Paris (b. 860)
1985-08-01 - King Ethelwulf of Wessex
1988-08-01 - Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor
1137-08-01 - King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
1227-08-01 - Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
1402-08-01 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
1457-08-01 - Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (bc. 1406)
1464-08-01 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
1541-08-01 - Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
1546-08-01 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
1557-08-01 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
1580-08-01 - Albrecht Giese IV, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
1589-08-01 - Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
1675-08-01 - Weetamoo, sachem of Pocasetts a band of the Wamponoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip's War
1714-08-01 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
1787-08-01 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
1796-08-01 - Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
1798-08-01 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
1812-08-01 - Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
1851-08-01 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
1866-08-01 - John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
1917-08-01 - Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
1918-08-01 - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
1920-08-01 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
1929-08-01 - Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
1964-08-01 - Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934)
1966-08-01 - Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (b. 1941)
1967-08-01 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
1970-08-01 - Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
1970-08-01 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883)
1973-08-01 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
1977-08-01 - Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
1981-08-01 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
1989-08-01 - John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
1990-08-01 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
1990-08-01 - Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)
1996-08-01 - Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
1996-08-01 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
1997-08-01 - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
1999-08-01 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
2001-08-01 - Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
2003-08-01 - Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
2003-08-01 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
2004-08-01 - Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)
2004-08-01 - Alexandra Flynn Scott Founder of Alex's Lemonade Stand. (b. 1996)
2005-08-01 - Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
2005-08-01 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
2005-08-01 - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
2005-08-01 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
2006-08-01 - Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
Declared
2007-08-01 - Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago - Emancipation Day.
2007-08-01 - Democratic Republic of Congo - Parent's Day
2007-08-01 - Yorkshire, England - Yorkshire Day.
2007-08-01 - World Scout Day - anniversary of the first day of the Brownsea Island Camp in 1907, where Robert Baden-Powell began scouting.
Events
1988-08-01 - Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
2001-08-01 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1948-08-01 - The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
1957-08-01 - The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
1960-08-01 - Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
1960-08-01 - Communist PAI is banned in Senegal.
1960-08-01 - Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1961-08-01 - Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park, opens.
1964-08-01 - The Republic of the Congo (the former Belgian Congo, not to be confused with Congo-Brazzaville) is renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1965-08-01 - Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.
1966-08-01 - Charles Whitman kills 15 people shooting from the Main Building at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
1966-08-01 - Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1967-08-01 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
1968-08-01 - The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
1970-08-01 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival.
1971-08-01 - Concert for Bangladesh.
1975-08-01 - CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
1977-08-01 - Frank H.T. Rhodes is elected President of Cornell University, a post he would hold for 18 years.
1980-08-01 - Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.
1981-08-01 - MTV broadcasts its first video, "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.
1988-08-01 - Rush Limbaugh was syndicated nationally as a two hour radio show.
1994-08-01 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumors that they had married eleven weeks earlier.
1996-08-01 - Olympic Games: 1996 Summer Olympics - Michael Johnson wins the 200-meter dash in 19.32 seconds, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.
2001-08-01 - An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia.
2001-08-01 - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
2001-08-01 - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a 2-1/2 ton Ten Commandments monument installed in the rotunda of the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
2004-08-01 - A supermarket fire kills 215 people and injures 300 in Asunción, Paraguay.
2005-08-01 - German spelling reform of 1996 is formally implemented.
1203-08-01 - Isaac II Angelus, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexius IV Angelus co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Ciaran Fourth Crusade.
1291-08-01 - The Swiss Confederation is formed.
1461-08-01 - Edward IV is crowned king of England.
1492-08-01 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain.
1498-08-01 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.
1619-08-01 - First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
1664-08-01 - 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.
1774-08-01 - The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley.
1798-08-01 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) - Battle begins when a British fleet under the command of Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys
1800-08-01 - 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.
1820-08-01 - London's Regent's Canal opens.
1831-08-01 - London Bridge opens.
1832-08-01 - The Black Hawk War ends.
1834-08-01 - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
1838-08-01 - Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated.
1864-08-01 - The Elgin Watch Company is founded in Elgin, Illinois.
1876-08-01 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1894-08-01 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
1902-08-01 - The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.
1907-08-01 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island. It was set up on July 29th and ran until August 9th.
1914-08-01 - Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I
1927-08-01 - The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
1936-08-01 - Olympic Games: Summer Olympic Games - The Games of the XI Olympiad open in Berlin.
1937-08-01 - Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
1941-08-01 - The first Jeep is produced.
1944-08-01 - Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
1944-08-01 - Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
1945-08-01 - Mel Ott becomes the third member of the 500 home run club with a Home run at the Polo Grounds in New York, New York.
1946-08-01 - The Japanese Federation of Trade Unions is formed.
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