Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 1
This is a list of selected August 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Joseph Priestley -
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US President George H. W. Bush -
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Warsaw Uprising – Polish barricade on the Napoleon square -
The Aguda building in Tel Aviv, 18 days before the shooting attack took place -
Herman Melville
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 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. | TFA for 2020 |
| 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 |
| 2004 – Nearly 400 people died in a supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, when exits were locked to prevent people from stealing merchandise. | lots of CN tags relative to length (4) |
Eligible
- 902 – Led by Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, the Aghlabids captured the Byzantine stronghold of Taormina, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
- 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley liberated oxygen gas, corroborating the discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
- 1801 – First Barbary War: USS Enterprise, an American schooner, captured the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day 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.
- 1966 – Charles Whitman climbed the University of Texas at Austin tower and went on a shooting spree at the school, killing 10 people before being shot and killed by police.
- 1971 – The Concert for Bangladesh, a pair of benefit concerts organised by Ravi Shankar and George Harrison for refugees of the Bangladesh genocide, was held at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, New York.
- 1981 – At 12:01 AM (ET), "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles became the first music video broadcast on the American cable television network MTV.
- 1991 – U.S. president George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the parliament of the Ukrainian SSR in which he warned against Ukrainian independence.
- 2009 – A shooting at the Israeli LGBT Association building in Tel Aviv resulted in the deaths of two people.
- Born/died this day: Æthelwold of Winchester (d. 984) | Sabbatai Zevi (b. 1626) | Elizabeth Randles (b. 1800) | Maria Mitchell (b. 1818) | Herman Melville (b. 1819) | Helen Sawyer Hogg (b. 1905) | Alan Moore (b. 1914) | Kurmanbek Bakiyev (b. 1949) | Lolita Lebrón (d. 2010)
August 1: Lughnasadh and Imbolc in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively
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- 527 – Upon the death of Justin I, his nephew and adopted son Justinian I became the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1714 – George Louis, Elector of Hanover, became King George I of Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era of British history.
- 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile, between a British fleet commanded by Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson and a French fleet under Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, began at Aboukir Bay off the Egyptian coast.
- 1984 – Commercial peat cutters discovered the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England.
- 2007 – Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed (aftermath pictured), killing 13 people and injuring 145 others.
- Adhemar of Le Puy (d. 1098)
- John Lester (b. 1871)
- Frances Farmer (d. 1970)