August
1
Independence
Day
Benin : August 1 1960
Switzerland : August 1 1291
August
1 to 7 : World Breastfeeding Week
World Breastfeeding
Week is celebrated every year from 1 to 7 August in more than
120 countries to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health
of babies around the world. It commemorates the Innocenti Declaration
made by WHO and UNICEF policy-makers in August 1990 to protect,
promote and support breastfeeding.
Breastfeeding
is the best way to provide newborns with the nutrients they
need. WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding until a baby is
six months old, and continued breastfeeding with the addition
of nutritious complementary foods for up to two years or beyond.
Events
30 BC –
Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt,
bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior
(Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
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.
1192 – Richard the Lionheart landed on Jaffa and defeated the
army of Saladin
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 Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature
of the Federal Charter.
1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit
what is now Venezuela.
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.
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.
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.
1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise
captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action
off the coast of modern-day Libya.
1831 – A new London Bridge opens.
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 – The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
US.
1855 – The first ascent of 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.
1907 – The start of first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the
origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
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 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto
of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive
congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
1944 – The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks
out in Warsaw, Poland.
1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American
Air Defense Command (NORAD).
1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from
France.
1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government
of Pakistan.
1964 – The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo.
1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 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.
1968 – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th
Sultan of Brunei.
1974 – Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes
the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus
into two zones.
1975 – CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and
Co-operation in Europe.
1980 – Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of
train passengers in Ireland.
1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland
and becomes the country's first democratically elected female
head of state
1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs
its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by
the Buggles.
1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body
of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North
West England.
1993 – The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
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.
Holidays
and observances
Armed Forces
Day (Lebanon)
Armed Forces Day or Anniversary of the Founding of the People's
Liberation Army (People's Republic of China)
Christian Feast Day:
Abgar V of Edessa (Syrian Church)
Alphonso Maria de' Liguori
Æthelwold of Winchester
Eusebius of Vercelli
Exuperius of Bayeux
Felix of Girona
Peter Apostle in Chains
August 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the
slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part
of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time
(British West Indies):
Earliest day on which Caribana celebration can fall, celebrated
on the first Weekend of August. (Toronto)
Earliest day on which Emancipation Day can fall, celebrated
on the first Monday of August. (Anguilla, the Bahamas, British
Virgin Islands)
Emancipation Day (Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad
and Tobago)
Earliest day on which Civic Holiday can fall; celebrated on
the first Monday of August. (Canada)
Earliest day on which Commerce Day, or Frídagur verslunarmanna,
can fall; celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Iceland)
Earliest day on which International Friendship Day can fall,
celebrated on the first Sunday of August.
Feast of Kamál (Perfection); First day of the eighth month of
the Bahá'í calendar. (Bahá'í Faith)
Liberation of Haile Selassie from slavery. (Rastafari movement)
National Day, celebrates the independence of Benin from France
in 1960.
National Day, commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit
in 1291.
Procession of the Cross and the beginning of Dormition Fast
(Eastern Orthodoxy)
Statehood Day (Colorado)
The beginning of Autumn observances:
Lughnasadh, traditionally begins on the eve of August 1. (Gaels,
Ireland, Scotland, Neopagans)
Lammas (England, Scotland, Neopagans)
The first day of Carnaval del Pueblo (Burgess Park, London)
Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire, England)
World Scout Day, anniversary of the first day of the Brownsea
Island Camp in 1907, where Robert Baden-Powell began scouting.
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