August 1 in History

Historical Events on August 1

1498 Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.

1664 Ottoman forces are 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.

1774 British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

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.

1876 Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.

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.

1943 World War II: Operation Tidal Wave also known as "Black Sunday", was a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian oil fields.

2017 A suicide attack on a mosque in Heart, Afghanistan kills 20 people.

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Famous Birthdays on August 1

1819 Herman Melville

1932 Meena Kumari

1986 Andrew Taylor (footballer, born 1986)

1989 Madison Bumgarner

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Famous Deaths on August 1

30 BC Mark Antony

1714 Anne, Queen of Great Britain

1944 Manuel L. Quezon

2009 Corazon Aquino

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