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

• 527 –
  Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
• 607 –
  Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
• 902 –
  Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army.
• 1759 –
  Seven Years’ War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
• 1831 –
  A new London Bridge opens.
• 1927 –
  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.
• 1964 –
  The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo.
• 1975 –
  CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
• 1981 –
  MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles.
• 2004 –
  A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.

Who were born on August 1?

• 1713 –
  Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1780)
• 1819 –
  Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
• 1891 –
  Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
• 1933 –
  Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player
• 1958 –
  Michael Penn, American singer and songwriter
• 1962 –
  Jesse Borrego, American actor
• 1963 –
  Dean Wareham, New Zealand musician (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean and Britta)
• 1981 –
  Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
• 1987 –
  Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer
• 1990 –
  Jack O'Connell, English actor (Skins)

Who died on August 1?

• 1227 –
  Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
• 1787 –
  Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
• 1866 –
  John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
• 1903 –
  Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (b. 1853)
• 1970 –
  Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1973 –
  Walter Ulbricht, German communist statesman (b. 1893)
• 1981 –
  Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
• 1996 –
  Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
• 2007 –
  Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932)
• 2008 –
  Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)