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August 1 is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) ... 1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
On 1 August 1985, Trinidad and Tobago became the first independent country to declare Emancipation Day as a public holiday to commemorate the abolition of slavery. Historically, 1 August was known as West Indian Emancipation Day and it became a key mobilisation tool and holiday for the antislavery movement in the United States .
This is a list of the first music videos broadcast on MTV's first day, August 1, 1981. MTV's first day on the air was rebroadcast on VH1 Classic in 2006 and again in 2011 (the latter celebrating the channel's 30th anniversary).
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival held on a 600-acre (2.4-km 2) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Thirty-two acts performed during the sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers.
Independence Day: 13 August: 1960 [31] Effective date of the agreement with France signed on 12 July. [15] Chad: Republic Day: 28 November: 1958 [32] Effective date when Chad became an autonomous republic in the French Community. [33] Independence Day: 11 August: 1960 Effective date of the agreement with France signed on 12 July. [15] Chile
The first of two full moons in August will reach its peak on Tuesday August 1. As an added bonus, it will also be a supermoon! First August 2023 full moon coming Tuesday — and it's a supermoon.
In Anglo-Saxon England Lammas was the name for the first day of August and was described in Old English literature as "the feast of first fruits", being mentioned often in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. [8] It was probably the day when loaves baked from the first of the wheat harvest were blessed at church. [8]
The Candlelight Vigil traces its beginnings to a fan-organized gathering outside the Graceland gates in 1978. But when did Elvis Week begin?