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.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
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Joseph Priestley -
Portrait of Joseph Priestley by Ellen Sharples -
US President George H. W. Bush -
Bridge 9340 after its collapse -
Mosaic of Justinian the Great -
Warsaw Uprising – Polish barricade on the Napoleon square -
The Aguda building in Tel Aviv, 18 days before the shooting attack took place
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Swiss National Day; | refimprove |
| ; Independence Day in Benin ( 1960) | refimprove section |
| ; Lammas in England and Scotland | refimprove |
| 1291 – Three Swiss cantons signed the Federal Charter to form the Old Swiss Confederacy. | refimprove section |
| 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 |
| 2007 – Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145. | POTD for 2018 |
| Sabbatai Zevi (b. 1626) | uncertainty about date (see Talk:Sabbatai Zevi#birth date) |
Eligible
- 902 – Led by Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, the Aghlabids captured the Byzantine stronghold of Taormina, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
- 1714 – George Louis, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era of British history.
- 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.
- 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley liberated oxygen gas, corroborating the discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
- 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile started between a British fleet commanded by Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson and a French fleet under Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers.
- 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.
- 1907 – Robert Baden-Powell held the first Scout camp at Brownsea Island in Dorset, England, beginning the Scouting movement.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2004 – Nearly 400 people died in a supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, when exits were locked to prevent people from stealing merchandise.
- Born/died this day: Æthelwold of Winchester (d. 984) · Elizabeth Randles (b. 1800) · John Lester (b. 1871) · Frances Farmer (d. 1970) · Lolita Lebrón (d. 2010)
August 1: Lughnasadh/ Imbolc ( Gaels and neopagans in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively)
- 527 – Upon the death of Justin I, his nephew and adopted son Justinian I became the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discovered the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England.
- 2009 – A shooting at the Israeli LGBT Association building in Tel Aviv resulted in the deaths of two people.
Adhemar of Le Puy (d. 1098) · Herman Melville (pictured, b. 1819) · Kurmanbek Bakiyev (b. 1949)
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.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
Images
Use only ONE image at a time
-
Flag of Switzerland
-
Joseph Priestley
-
Portrait of Joseph Priestley by Ellen Sharples
-
US President George H. W. Bush
-
Bridge 9340 after its collapse
-
Mosaic of Justinian the Great
-
Warsaw Uprising – Polish barricade on the Napoleon square
-
The Aguda building in Tel Aviv, 18 days before the shooting attack took place
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Swiss National Day; | refimprove |
| ; Independence Day in Benin ( 1960) | refimprove section |
| ; Lammas in England and Scotland | refimprove |
| 1291 – Three Swiss cantons signed the Federal Charter to form the Old Swiss Confederacy. | refimprove section |
| 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 |
| 2007 – Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145. | POTD for 2018 |
| Sabbatai Zevi (b. 1626) | uncertainty about date (see Talk:Sabbatai Zevi#birth date) |
Eligible
- 902 – Led by Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, the Aghlabids captured the Byzantine stronghold of Taormina, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
- 1714 – George Louis, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era of British history.
- 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.
- 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley liberated oxygen gas, corroborating the discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
- 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile started between a British fleet commanded by Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson and a French fleet under Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers.
- 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.
- 1907 – Robert Baden-Powell held the first Scout camp at Brownsea Island in Dorset, England, beginning the Scouting movement.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2004 – Nearly 400 people died in a supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, when exits were locked to prevent people from stealing merchandise.
- Born/died this day: Æthelwold of Winchester (d. 984) · Elizabeth Randles (b. 1800) · John Lester (b. 1871) · Frances Farmer (d. 1970) · Lolita Lebrón (d. 2010)
August 1: Lughnasadh/ Imbolc ( Gaels and neopagans in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively)
- 527 – Upon the death of Justin I, his nephew and adopted son Justinian I became the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discovered the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England.
- 2009 – A shooting at the Israeli LGBT Association building in Tel Aviv resulted in the deaths of two people.
Adhemar of Le Puy (d. 1098) · Herman Melville (pictured, b. 1819) · Kurmanbek Bakiyev (b. 1949)