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Switzerland becomes a nation

August 1 is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
• 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.
• 1203 – Isaac II Angelus, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexius IV Angelus co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
• 1291 – The Swiss Confederation is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
• 1461 – Edward IV is crowned king of England.
• 1492 – Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile drive the Jews out of Spain.
• 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.
• 1619 – First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1664 – 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 – The element oxygen is discovered for the third (and last) time.
• 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) – Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
• 1800 – 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 – London's Regent's Canal opens.
• 1828 – Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic.
• 1831 – A new London Bridge opens.
• 1832 – The Black Hawk War ends.
• 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
• 1838 – Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
• 1840 – Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
• 1842 – Lombard Street Riot erupts
• 1855 – First ascent of Dufourspitze (Monte Rosa), the second highest summit in the Alps.
• 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
• 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.
• 1907 – Start of First Scout camp on Brownsea Island.
• 1914 – Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I
• 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.
• 1937 – Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
• 1941 – The first Jeep is produced.
• 1944 – Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
• 1944 – Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
• 1948 – The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
• 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
• 1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
• 1960 – Communist Party of Independence and Work is banned in Senegal.
• 1960 – Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
• 1964 – The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo.
• 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 15 people at The University of Texas at Austin 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.
• 1968 – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
• 1975 – CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
• 1977 – Former Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he is flying in Los Angeles
• 1980 – Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.
• 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.
• 1993 – The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
• 1996 – Michael Johnson breaks the 200m world record by 0.30 seconds with a time of 19.32 seconds at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 2001 – An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia.
• 2001 – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
• 2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
• 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.
• 2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.

Births

• 10 BC – Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. 54)
• 126 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
• 1313 – Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)
• 1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
• 1545 – Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
• 1555 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
• 1579 – Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
• 1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (d. 1676)
• 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
• 1713 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1780)
• 1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
• 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
• 1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
• 1770 – William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838)
• 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
• 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
• 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882)
• 1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
• 1819 – Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
• 1837 – Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
• 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln; 35th United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
• 1856 – George Coulthard, Former Australian rules footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
• 1858 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
• 1858 – Gaston Doumergue, French President (d. 1937)
• 1861 – Sammy Jones, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
• 1871 – John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
• 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
• 1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
• 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
• 1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
• 1892 – Kinsan Ginsan, Japanese identical twins who lived to ages 107 and 108, respectively.
• 1893 – King Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
• 1894 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
• 1900 – Otto Nothling, Former Australian cricketer and rugby union footballer (d. 1965)
• 1901 – Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (d. 1925)
• 1910 – James Henry Govier, British artist (d. 1974)
• 1910 – Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
• 1910 – Mohammad Nissar, Indian cricketer (d. 1963)
• 1911 – Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
• 1912 – Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1914 – J. Lee Thompson, British film director (d. 2002)
• 1916 – Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)
• 1916 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal
• 1916 – Val Bettin, English voice actor
• 1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player
• 1922 – Pat McDonald, Australian actress (d. 1990)
• 1924 – Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1924 – Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Frank Worrell, Former West Indian cricketer (d. 1967)
• 1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Theo Adam, German bass-baritone
• 1929 – Ann Calvello, Roller Derby queen (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
• 1930 – Lionel Bart, English song-writer (d. 1999)
• 1930 – Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (d. 1991)
• 1931 – Trevor Goddard, Former South African cricketer
• 1932 – Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
• 1932 – Meena Kumari, Indian film actress (d. 1972)
• 1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (d. 2009)
• 1933 – Jesse Corti, Venezuelan-born actor and comedian
• 1933 – Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player
• 1933 – Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian (d. 2007)
• 1934 – John Beck, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 2000)
• 1935 – Geoff Pullar, Former England cricketer
• 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
• 1937 – Al D'Amato, United States Senator from New York
• 1940 – Mervyn Kitchen, Former Somerset cricketer and cricket international umpire
• 1940 – Ram Loevy, Israeli screenwriter and director

• 1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
• 1942 – André Gagnon, French Canadian pianist and composer
• 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor
• 1945 – Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1945 – Sandi Griffiths, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show
• 1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
• 1946 – Boz Burrell, British musician (King Crimson, Bad Company) (d. 2006)
• 1947 – Chris L. Barnard, Welsh footballer
• 1947 – Dennis Zine, Los Angeles city councilman
• 1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan
• 1949 – Ray Nettles, professional football player (d. 2009)
• 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and actor (d. 2009)
• 1950 – Bunkhouse Buck, American professional wrestler
• 1951 – Tommy Bolin, American musician (Deep Purple) (d. 1976)
• 1951 – Pete Mackanin, American baseball player
• 1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
• 1952 – Yajurvindra Singh, Former Indian cricketer
• 1953 – Robert Cray, American singer
• 1953 – Howard Kurtz, American journalist
• 1955 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (d. 2006)
• 1955 – Arun Lal, Former Indian cricketer
• 1956 – Tom Leykis, American radio personality
• 1958 – Rob Buck, American musician (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
• 1958 – Tor Håkon Holte, Norwegian cross country skier
• 1958 – Michael Penn, American singer and songwriter
• 1958 – Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player
• 1959 – Joe Elliott, English musician (Def Leppard)
• 1959 – Otomo Yoshihide, Japanese musician
• 1960 – Chuck D, American activist and rapper (Public Enemy)
• 1960 – Richard Roeper, American columnist and film critic
• 1962 – Jacob Matlala, South African boxer
• 1962 – Jesse Borrego, American actor
• 1963 – Coolio, American rapper
• 1963 – Demián Bichir, Mexican actor
• 1963 – John Carroll Lynch, American actor
• 1963 – Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut
• 1963 – Lynette Sadleir, New Zealand Olympic synchronised swimmer
• 1963 – Dean Wareham, New Zealand musician (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean and Britta)
• 1964 – Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows)
• 1965 – Sam Mendes, British stage and film director
• 1966 – James St. James, American author and nightlife personality
• 1967 – Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player
• 1968 – Dan Donegan, American musician (Disturbed)
• 1968 – Stacey Augmon, American basketball player
• 1969 – Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player
• 1969 – David Wain, American actor
• 1969 – Graham Thorpe, Former England cricketer
• 1970 – David James, English footballer
• 1972 – Devon Hughes, American professional wrestler
• 1972 – Nicke Royale, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
• 1972 – Tanya Reid, Canadian actress
• 1973 – Gregg Berhalter, American footballer
• 1973 – Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
• 1973 – Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgian athlete
• 1973 – Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
• 1974 – Beckie Scott, Canadian cross-country skiing athlete
• 1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
• 1976 – Hasan Şaş, Turkish footballer
• 1976 – Søren Jochumsen, Danish footballer
• 1977 – Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Damien Saez, French musician, songwriter, and author
• 1978 – Dhani Harrison, English musician
• 1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player
• 1978 – Andy Blignaut, Former Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1979 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer
• 1979 – Jason Momoa, American actor
• 1979 – Honeysuckle Weeks, English actress
• 1980 – Mancini, Brazilian footballer
• 1981 – Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
• 1981 – Ashley Parker Angel, North American singer and actor
• 1982 – Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
• 1983 – David Gervasi, Swiss decathlete
• 1984 – Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress
• 1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
• 1986 – Andrew Taylor, English footballer
• 1986 – Anton Stralman, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1986 – Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
• 1987 – Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
• 1987 – Rumi Hiiragi, Japanese actress
• 1987 – Lee Wallace, Scottish football player
• 1989 – Jack O'Connell, English actor (Skins)
• 1998 – Khamani Griffin, American actor

Deaths

• 30 BC – Mark Antony, Roman politician and general (b. 83 BC)
• 371 – St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. 283)
• 527 – Emperor Justin I (b. 450)
• 1137 – King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
• 1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
• 1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian explorer (b. c.1180)
• 1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
• 1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (b. c.1406)
• 1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
• 1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
• 1546 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
• 1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
• 1580 – Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
• 1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
• 1675 – Weetamoo, sachem of Pocasetts, a band of the Wampanoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip's War (b. 1635)
• 1714 – Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
• 1787 – Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
• 1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist(b. 1735)
• 1796 – Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
• 1798 – François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
• 1807 – John Walker, English lexicographer (b. 1732)
• 1812 – Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
• 1851 – William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
• 1866 – John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
• 1903 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (b. 1853)
• 1911 – Samuel Arza Davenport, American politician (b. 1843)
• 1911 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter (b. 1852)
• 1917 – Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
• 1918 – John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
• 1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
• 1929 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1938 – John Aasen, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1944 – Manuel L. Quezon, First President of the Philippine Commonwealth (b. 1878)
• 1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Soviet female flying ace (b. 1921)
• 1964 – Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934)
• 1966 – Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (b. 1941)
• 1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
• 1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883)
• 1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
• 1973 – Walter Ulbricht, German communist statesman (b. 1893)
• 1974 – Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
• 1980 – Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)
• 1980 – Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
• 1989 – John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
• 1990 – Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
• 1990 – Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)
• 1996 &nd ash; Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
• 1996 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897) 1994- DiAngelo Mathis United State Marine
• 1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
• 1997 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927)
• 1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
• 2001 – Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
• 2003 – Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
• 2004 – Philip Abelson, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
• 2005 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
• 2006 – Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
• 2007 – Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Corazon Aquino, Former President of the Philippines (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

• 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.
• Jamaica – Emancipation Day
• Rastafari movement – Celebration of the liberation of Haile Selassie from slavery.
• Switzerland – National Day – Commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit on August 1 1291.
• 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, England – Yorkshire Day.
• World Scout Day – anniversary of the first day of the Brownsea Island Camp in 1907, where Robert Baden-Powell began scouting.
• United States – Colorado statehood day

Orthodox Christianity

• Abgar V of Edessa
• Procession of the Cross.

Roman Catholicism

• Saint Peter Apostle in Chains
• Saint Alphonso Maria de' Liguori, bishop, Doctor of the Church (died 1787)
• Saint Æthelwold of Winchester, bishop of Winchester, confessor
• Saint Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli, martyr Geneva, Lausanne, France; Paris
• Saint Exuperius, bishop of Bayeux northern France; Paris
• Saint Felix, martyr at Gerona, Spain
• Saint Peter Julian Eymard (Pierre-Julien Eymard, died 1868)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2003

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ~ Aristotle

• selected by Nanobug

2004

Called or uncalled, God is there. ~ Ancient proverb, said to be Spartan, popularized by Carl Jung

• selected by Kalki
  This is a translation of the Latin phrase Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit. which Jung used as an inscription on his house, and also on his tomb. It is also commonly translated as " Called or uncalled, God is present." or sometimes "Invoked or not invoked...", "Bidden or unbidden", or "Summoned or not summoned..." God is present.

2005

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space. ~ Herman Melville (born 1 August 1819)

• proposed by Kalki

2006

And now we meet in an abandoned studio
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago
And you remember the jingles used to go
Oh, oh — You were the first one.
Oh, oh — You were the last one.
Video killed the radio star.
~ The Buggles ~

• proposed by Jeff Q

2007

People ask what are my intentions with my films — my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. ~ Ingmar Bergman (recent death)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. ~ Herman Melville in Moby-Dick (born 1 August 1819)

• proposed by Kalki

2009

In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a sacred white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, — even though it be covertly, and by snatches. ~ Herman Melville

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

A man to thrive must keep alive.

• 0 (no source, no anon, no relevance) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:43, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
• 0 Zarbon 14:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

They took the credit for your second symphony.
Rewritten by machine and new technology,
and now I understand the problems you can see.
~ The Buggles, "Video Killed the Radio Star"

• first song played on MTV, (1 August 1981)
• 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:49, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
• 3 Jeff Q (talk) 09:47, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 14:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 00:29, 2 August 2008 (UTC) not as memorable as the chorus of the song, which has already been used.

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round. ~ Herman Melville (born 1 August 1819)

• 3 Kalki 23:33, 31 July 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4
• 1 Zarbon 14:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom? ~ Herman Melville (born 1 August 1819)

• 3 Kalki 23:33, 31 July 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4
• 1 Zarbon 14:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Michael Badnarik

• 3 Zarbon 03:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 0 Kalki 19:22, 1 June 2009 (UTC) because this is apparently a misattribution, at least in terms of authorship. 1 Kalki 11:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC) I would rank this higher, but I don't believe this actually originates with Badnarik.
• PhR 18:36, 1 June 2009 (UTC)NPOV prevents me from commenting on Badnarik. Check http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown right here.

You seem to assert that this did not originate with Badnarik, which is fairly well evidenced, but you have numerically ranked this high, by our system in which the highest favor is 4, and the lowest is 0. ~ Kalki 19:21, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

I didn't mean to rank the quote at all, Kalki, so I just removed the ranking. Hope it's ok. --PhR 00:11, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Allow me to dispel a myth. People in the Middle East do not hate us for our freedom. They do not hate us for our lifestyle. They hate us because we have spent many years attempting to force them to emulate our lifestyle. ~ Michael Badnarik

• 2 Zarbon 03:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 11:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

The question is: How bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like. I'm quite sure that I will never experience that war - because dissidents are always the first to be eliminated. ~ Michael Badnarik

• 2 Zarbon 03:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 11:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

I am a very peaceful man. I love people and am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time. ~ Michael Badnarik

• 4 Zarbon 03:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 11:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also.~ Herman Melville, in Moby-Dick

• 3 Kalki 07:29, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff's hands upon the world. Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all nature. It speaks of the Reserved Forces of Fate. Silence is the only Voice of our God. ~ Herman Melville

• 3 Kalki 07:29, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. ~ Herman Melville, in The Confidence-Man

• 3 Kalki 07:29, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

It is — or seems to be — a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it. ~ Herman Melville

• 3 Kalki 07:29, 28 July 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on August 1.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 2007
  • Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

From Familypedia

August 1 is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 33 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
• 527 - Justinian I becomes the only 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.
• 1203 - 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 - The Swiss Confederation is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
• 1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England.
• 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain.
• 1498 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.
• 1619 - First African slaves arrive in Jamestown.
• 1664 - 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 - The element oxygen is discovered for the third (and last) time.
• 1798 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) - Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
• 1800 - 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 - London's Regent's Canal opens.
• 1831 - A new London Bridge opens.
• 1832 - The Black Hawk War ends.
• 1834 - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
• 1838 - Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated.
• 1876 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
• 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.
• 1907 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.
• 1914 - Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I
• 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.
• 1936 - Olympic Games: Summer Olympic Games - The Games of the XI Olympiad open in Berlin.
• 1937 - Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
• 1941 - The first Jeep is produced.
• 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.
• 1946 - The Japanese Federation of Trade Unions is formed.
• 1948 - The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
• 1957 - The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
• 1960 - Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
• 1960 - Communist Party of Independence and Work is banned in Senegal.
• 1960 - Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
• 1964 - The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo.
• 1965 - Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.
• 1966 - Charles Whitman kills 15 people at The University of Texas at Austin 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.
• 1968 - The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
• 1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival.
• 1971 - Concert for Bangladesh.
• 1975 - CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
• 1977 - Frank H.T. Rhodes is elected President of Cornell University, a post he would hold for 18 years.
• 1977 - Former Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he was flying in Los Angeles
• 1980 - Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.
• 1981 - MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.
• 1988 - Rush Limbaugh was syndicated nationally in the United States as a two hour radio show.
• 1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumors that they had married eleven weeks earlier.
• 2001 - An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia.
• 2001 - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
• 2001 - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
• 2004 - A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.
• 2005 - German spelling reform of 1996 is formally implemented.
• 2007 - The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsed during the evening rush hour.

Births

• 10 BC - Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. 54)
• 126 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
• 1313 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)
• 1377 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
• 1545 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
• 1555 - Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
• 1579 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
• 1630 - Thomas Clifford, English statesman (d. 1673)
• 1713 - Charles I (d. 1780)
• 1714 - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
• 1738 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
• 1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
• 1770 - William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838)
• 1779 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
• 1779 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
• 1815 - Richard Henry Dana, American lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882)
• 1818 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
• 1819 - Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
• 1837 - Mother Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
• 1843 - Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln; United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
• 1858 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
• 1858 - Gaston Doumergue, French President (d. 1937)
• 1871 - John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
• 1885 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
• 1881 - Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
• 1889 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
• 1891 - Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
• 1893 - King Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
• 1894 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
• 1910 - James Henry Govier, British artist (d. 1974)
• 1910 - Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
• 1912 - Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1914 - J. Lee Thompson, British film director (d. 2002)
• 1916 - Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)
• 1921 - Jack Kramer, American tennis player
• 1922 - Pat McDonald, Australian actress (d. 1990)
• 1924 - Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1924 - Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
• 1925 - Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
• 1926 - Theo Adam, German bass-baritone
• 1927 - Raymond Leppard, English conductor
• 1930 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
• 1930 - Lionel Bart, English song-writer (d. 1999)
• 1930 - Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (d. 1991)
• 1932 - Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
• 1932 - Meena Kumari, Indian film actress (d. 1972)
• 1933 - Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian
• 1933 - Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player
• 1933 - Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian (d. 2007)
• 1936 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer
• 1937 - Al D'Amato, United States Senator from New York
• 1941 - Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1942 - Jerry Garcia, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
• 1942 - André Gagnon, French Canadian pianist and composer
• 1942 - Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor
• 1945 - Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1945 - Sandi Griffiths, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show
• 1946 - Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
• 1946 - Boz Burrell, British bass guitarist (King Crimson, Bad Company) (d. 2006)
• 1949 - Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan
• 1950 - Jim Carroll, American poet and actor
• 1951 - Tommy Bolin, American guitarist (Deep Purple) (d. 1976)
• 1951 - Pete Mackanin, American baseball player
• 1952 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
• 1953 - Robert Cray, American singer
• 1953 - Charles Gilpin, American Scientist (d. 1998)
• 1953 - Howard Kurtz, American journalist
• 1955 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer
• 1956 - Tom Leykis, American radio personality
• 1958 - Adrian Dunbar, Northern Irish actor
• 1958 - Rob Buck, American musician (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
• 1958 - Tor Håkon Holte, Norwegian cross country skier
• 1958 - Michael Penn, American singer and songwriter
• 1959 - Joe Elliott, English musician (Def Leppard)
• 1959 - Otomo Yoshihide, Japanese musician
• 1960 - Chuck D, American rapper (Public Enemy)
• 1960 - Richard Roeper, American columnist and film critic
• 1962 - Robert Clift, British field hockey player
• 1962 - Jacob Matlala, South African boxer
• 1963 - Coolio, American rapper
• 1963 - Demián Bichir, Mexican actor
• 1963 - John Carroll Lynch, American actor
• 1963 - Dean Wareham, New Zealand musician (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean and Britta)
• 1964 - Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows)
• 1965 - Sam Mendes, British stage and film director
• 1967 - Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player
• 1968 - Dan Donegan, American musician (Disturbed)
• 1969 - Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player
• 1969 - David Wain, American actor
• 1970 - David James, English footballer
• 1972 - Devon Hughes, American professional wrestler
• 1972 - Nicke Royale, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
• 1972 - Tanya Reid, Canadian actress
• 1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
• 1973 - Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
• 1974 - Beckie Scott, Canadian cross-country skiing athlete
• 1976 - Kevin Joseph, American baseball player
• 1976 - Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
• 1977 - Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 - Damien Saez, French musician, songwriter, and author
• 1978 - Dhani Harrison, English musician
• 1978 - Edgerrin James, American football player
• 1979 - Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer
• 1979 - Jason Momoa, American actor
• 1980 - Mancini, Brazilian footballer
• 1981 - Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
• 1984 - Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress
• 1984 - Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
• 1986 - Andrew Taylor, English footballer
• 1986 - Anton Stralman, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1998 - Khamani Griffin, American actor

Deaths

• 371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283)
• 527 - Emperor Justin I (b. c. 450)
• 1137 - King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
• 1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
• 1402 - Edmund of Langley, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
• 1457 - Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (bc. 1406)
• 1464 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
• 1541 - Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
• 1546 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
• 1557 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
• 1580 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
• 1589 - Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
• 1675 - Weetamoo, sachem of Pocasetts, a band of the Wampanoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip's War
• 1714 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
• 1787 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
• 1796 - Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
• 1798 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
• 1812 - Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
• 1851 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
• 1866 - John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
• 1903 - Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (b. 1853)
• 1917 - Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
• 1918 - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
• 1920 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
• 1929 - Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1964 - Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934)
• 1966 - Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (b. 1941)
• 1967 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
• 1970 - Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1970 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883)
• 1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
• 1973 - Walter Ulbricht, German communist statesman (b. 1893)
• 1974 - Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1977 - Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
• 1980 - Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)
• 1980 - Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1981 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
• 1989 - John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
• 1990 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
• 1990 - Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)
• 1996 - Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
• 1996 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
• 1996 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
• 1997 - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
• 1998 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927)
• 1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
• 2001 - Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
• 2003 - Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
• 2003 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
• 2004 - Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)
• 2005 - Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
• 2005 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
• 2005 - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
• 2005 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
• 2006 - Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
• 2006 - Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
• 2006 - Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
• 2007 - Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances

• 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, England - Yorkshire Day.
• World Scout Day - anniversary of the first day of the Brownsea Island Camp in 1907, where Robert Baden-Powell began scouting.
• United States - Colorado statehood day

Orthodox Christianity

• Abgar V of Edessa
• Procession of the Cross.

Roman Catholicism

• Saint Alphonso Maria de' Liguori, bishop, Doctor of the Church (died 1787)
• Saint Æthelwold of Winchester, bishop of Winchester, confessor
• Saint Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli, martyr Geneva, Lausanne, France; Paris
• Saint Exuperius, bishop of Bayeux northern France; Paris
• Saint Felix, martyr at Gerona southern France
• Saint Peter Julian Eymard (Pierre-Julien Eymard, died 1868)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada