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August 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Minden Day (United Kingdom) National Day, celebrates the independence of Benin from France in 1960. Official Birthday and Coronation Day of the King of Tonga ; Parents' Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo) Statehood Day (Colorado) Swiss National Day, commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit in 1291.
August 26: Heroes' Day in Namibia; Women's Equality Day in the United States Clashes between police and protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention 683 – Second Fitna : The Battle of al-Harra was fought between Umayyad forces and the rebel defenders of Medina at a lava field northeast of the city.
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, ...
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1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon 1982 - Death of Stanford Moore , American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) 1997 - Death of John Kendrew , British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
1 June 1869 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine. 1 June 1910 – Robert Falcon Scott expedition leaves England for South Pole. 1 June 1978 – First Patent Cooperation Treaty international filings. 1 June 1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting. 1 June 1990 – Bush and Gorbachev sign chemical ...
August 26, 2024 at 10:26 AM. Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 1-7: Sept. 1: Comedian-actor Lily Tomlin is 85. Singer Archie Bell of Archie Bell and the Drells is 80. Singer Barry Gibb of ...
Lionel Bart (August 1, 1930–April 3, 1999), English composer, would have turned 94 this year. Ronnie Kemper (August 1, 1909–February 16, 1997), American singer, would have turned 115 this year. Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779–January 11, 1843), American composer, lawyer and poet, would have turned 245 this year.