On this day in History - Aug 1

• 10 BC - Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar Drusus) was born (d. 0054). Roman emperor.
• 0067 - As legiões romanas comandadas pelo imperador romano Tito ocupam Jerusalém e começam a destruir o Templo.
• 0126 - Publius Helvius Pertinax was born (d. 0193). Roman Emperor.
• 0371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli dies. Italian bishop
• 0432 - Pope Celestine I dies
• 0527 - Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor.
• 0607 - Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
• 1137 - King Louis VI of France dies (b. 1081)
• 1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa dies (b. 1179). The first of Shimazu clan and Japanese warlord
• 1291 - The Swiss Confederation is formed.
• 1464 - Cosimo de' Medici dies (b. 1386). Ruler of Florence.
• 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain.
• 1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England.
• 1498 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.
• 1589 - Henry III of France stabbed by an assassin: King Henry III of France was stabbed by Jacques Clément, a Jacobin friar, and died the next day after acknowledging his Bourbon ally, Henry of Navarre (Henry IV), a Huguenot, as his successor.
• 1598 - Abraham Ortelius dies (b. 1527). Belgian cartographer.
• 1619 - First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1630 - Thomas Clifford was born (d. 1673). 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman.
• 1714 - Queen Anne of Great Britain dies (b. 1665). George I, of the House of Hanover succedeed her.
• 1743 - Richard Savage (the subject of one of the best short biographies in English, Samuel Johnson's Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage -1744), dies in Bristol.
• 1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was born (d. 1829). French scientist.
• 1770 - William Clark was born (d. 1838). Explorer.
• 1774 - The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley.
• 1776 - Formal signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.
• 1779 - Francis Scott Key was born (d. 1843). American lawyer and lyricist.
• 1787 - Alphonsus Liguori dies (b. 1696). Italian founder of the Redemptionist order.
• 1794 - The Whiskey Rebellion begins in Pennsylvania.
• 1798 - Battle of the Nile starts between French and British fleets.
• 1808 - Começa a Guerra Peninsular com o desembarque do Duque de Wellington em Portugal
• 1815 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr. was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1882). Lawyer, politician, and author (Two Years Before the Mast).
• 1818 - Maria Mitchell was born (d. 1889). Astronomer.
• 1819 - Herman Melville was born (d. 1891). American writer (Moby Dick).
• 1819 - Nascimento de Manuel José Gonçalves Couto, missionário pedâneo, autor da Missão Abreviada.
• 1820 - London's Regent's Canal opens.
• 1826 - Francisco Manuel Trigoso de Aragão Morato toma posse como ministro do reino de Portugal, substituindo José Correia de Lacerda.
• 1831 - London Bridge opens.
• 1831 - Tomás António Ribeiro was born. Portuguese politician and writer.
• 1832 - The Black Hawk War ends.
• 1832 - Victor Meirelles de Lima was born. Brazilian painter.
• 1834 - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
• 1838 - Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated.
• 1838 - Queen Victoria I of England is crowned.
• 1858 - Hans Rott was born (d. 1884). Composer.
• 1864 - The Elgin Watch Company is founded in Elgin, Illinois
• 1876 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
• 1881 - Rose Macaulay was born in Rugby, Warwickshire. Author of novels and travel books [ Potterism (1920), Dangerous Ages (1921), Told by an Idiot (1923), Crewe Train (1926), Keeping Up Appearances (1928)].
• 1885 - George de Hevesy was born (d. 1966). Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1889 - Maria Mitchell dies. American astronomer
• 1891 - Karl Kobelt was born (d. 1968). Swiss politician.
• 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
• 1902 - The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.
• 1903 - Portugal: Boavista Football Club is founded / É fundado o Boavista Futebol Clube.
• 1907 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island
• 1914 - Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.
• 1917 - Frank Little dies lynched.American labor organizer.
• 1918 - John Riley Banister dies (b. 1854). American cowboy and Texas Ranger.
• 1921 - Jack Kramer was born. American tennis player
• 1922 - Arthur Hill was born. Actor .
• 1922 - Pat McDonald was born (d. 1990). Actress.
• 1924 - Johanna Döbereiner, scientist, receives the Science Prize Bernardo Houssay, from OEA (Organización de Estados Americanos).
• 1924 - Georges Charpak was born. Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1925 - Ernst Jandl was born (d. 2000).
• 1925 - Domingos Leite Pereira toma posse como primeiro-ministro de Portugal, substituindo António Maria da Silva.
• 1926 - Morte de Israel Zangwill (1864-1926), escritor inglês teórico do sionismo.
• 1927 - Raymond Leppard was born. English conductor
• 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.
• 1930 - Pierre Bourdieu was born (d. 2002). French sociologist.
• 1931- Tom Wilson was born. Cartoonist
• 1932 - Meir Kahane was born (d. 1990). Founder of the Jewish Defense League
• 1933 - António Osório was born. Portuguese poet.
• 1933 - Dom DeLuise was born. Actor, comedian .
• 1935 - Inauguração oficial das transmissões da Emissora Nacional de Radiodifusão, actual RDP
• 1936 - Yves Saint Laurent was born. French fashion designer
• 1936 - The Berlin Olympic Games open. The 11th Olympic games, dubbed "The Nazi Games," opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler. Jesse Owens won four gold medals including the 100-meter dash--becoming the world's fastest man. Owens also set new Olympic records in the long jump, the 200-meter dash and the 4 x 100-meter relay. It had been 36 years since a track-and-field athlete had won three gold medals in one Olympics
• 1937 - Al D'Amato was born. U.S. Senator from New York .
• 1939 - Synthetic vitamin K was produced for the first time.
• 1940 - John F. Kennedy's Why England Slept, a critical account of the British military that became a best seller, was published.
• 1941 - The first Jeep is produced.
• 1942 - Jerry Garcia was born (d. 1995). Guitarist, lyricist, singer (The Grateful Dead) .
• 1942 - Sjoukje Dijkstra was born. Dutch figure skater
• 1944 - Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
• 1944 - Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
• 1945 - 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.
• 1945 - Douglas D. Osheroff was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1946 - Fiona Stanley was born. Australian epidemiologist
• 1946 - The Japanese Federation of Trade Unions is formed.
• 1948 - The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
• 1950 - Jim Carroll was born. Poet, actor .
• 1953 - Robert Cray was born. Blues singer
• 1955 - Trevor Berbick was born. Jamaican boxer
• 1956 - Tom Leykis was born. Radio personality
• 1957 - The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
• 1959 - Joe Elliott was born. Musician (Def Leppard)
• 1960 - Chuck D was born. Rapper (Public Enemy)
• 1960 - Richard Roeper was born. Newspaper columnist and film critic
• 1960 - Benin declares independence from France
• 1961 - Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park, opens.
• 1963 - Coolio was born. Rapper
• 1964 - Johnny Burnette dies (b. 1934). Singer.
• 1965 - Sam Mendes was born. Film director
• 1965 - Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.
• 1966 - Charles Whitman kills 15 people shooting from a tower at the University of Texas in Austin, in the United States, before being killed by the police.
• 1966 - Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
• 1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
• 1967 - Richard Kuhn dies (b. 1900). Austrian chemist, 1938 Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1970 - Frances Farmer dies (b. 1913). Actress.
• 1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival
• 1970 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, dies. German physicist. Nobel Prize for Medicina in 1931.
• 1971 - George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York City features, among others, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Leon Russell.
• 1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe was born. Actress.
• 1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero dies. Italian composer.
• 1976 - Começam em Montreal os XXI Jogos Olímpicos da era moderna.
• 1976 - Lauda fights for life after Grand Prix crash : F1 racing driver Niki Lauda is in a critical condition in hospital after crashing at the German Grand Prix.
• 1977 - Gary Powers dies (b. 1929). American spy plane pilot.
• 1977 - Morre o Cardeal Cerejeira (D. Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira) (n. 29 Nov. 1888). Cardeal patriarca de Lisboa.
• 1978 - Edgerrin James was born. American football player.
• 1979 - Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo torna-se a primeira mulher a ocupar o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal, substituindo Carlos de Mota Pinto.
• 1981 - Taylor Fry was born. Actress.
• 1981 - First broadcasts by MTV. The first video played was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.
• 1981 - Paddy Chayefsky dies (b. 1923). American writer.
• 1985 - Bernardino de Souza Pereira dies. Brazilian painter
• 1989 - Britain's oldest person turns 112 Charlotte Marion Hughes from Cleveland celebrates her birthday - and enters the record books.
• 1989 - John Ogdon dies (b. 1937). English pianist.
• 1990 - Graham Young dies (b. 1947). British serial killer.
• 1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumours that they had married eleven weeks earlier.
• 1996 - Olympic Games: Michael Johnson wins the 200 meters in 19.32 seconds, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.
• 1996 - Frida Boccara dies (b. 1940). French singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner.
• 1996 - Tadeus Reichstein dies (b. 1897). Polish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri dies (b. 1897). Anglo-Indian writer.
• 2001 - England: Boy 'held prisoner for eight years' : Officers from Scotland Yard's Child Protection Team are investigating a boy's claims he was held captive in his own home for eight years.
• 2001 - Korey Stringer dies (b. 1974). American football player.
• 2001 - In talks between the government and representatives of the Albanian minority in the Republic of Macedonia, an agreement is reached on the position of the Albanian language in the Republic.
• 2001 - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
• 2003 - Hutton inquiry begins : The judge investigating the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly says his first task is to flesh out "a fuller picture of the facts".
• 2003 - Guy Thys dies. Belgian football coach
• 2003 - Marie Trintignant dies. French actress
• 2004 - Philip Hauge Abelson dies (b. 1913). Physicist.
• 2004 - A supermarket fire kills 215 people and injures 300 in Asunción, Paraguay. / Um incêndio num supermercado em Assunção, Paraguai, mata ao menos 464 pessoas e fere outras 409.
• 2005 - German spelling reform of 1996 to be formally implemented
• Orthodox Christianity - Procession of the Cross
• Angola - Armed Forces Day
• Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago - Emancipation Day
• Benin - National Day
• People's Republic of China - Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army
• Democratic Republic of Congo - Parent's Day
• Nicaragua - Fiesta Day
• Rastafari movement - Celebration of the liberation of Haile Selassie from slavery
• Switzerland - National Day
• Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Kamál (Perfection) - First day of the eighth month of the Bahá'í Calendar
• Lughnasadh - Lá Lúnasa, the traditional first day of Autumn in Ireland.
• Lammas - Neopagan festival of Lammas
• Lebanon - Army's Day (Eid al-Jaysh)
• Yorkshire, United Kingdom - Yorkshire Day