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August 1 is the 213th day of the year ... "Historical Events on August 1". OnThisDay.com. This page was last edited on 6 January 2025, at 21:20 ...
1 August, Emancipation Day in Jamaica is a public holiday and part of a week-long cultural celebration, during which Jamaicans also celebrate Jamaica Independence Day on 6 August 1962. Both 1 August and 6 August are public holidays. Emancipation Day had stopped being observed as a nation holiday in 1962 at the time of independence. [24]
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August 19: Gulf of Sidra incident. August 1 – MTV (Music Television) is launched on cable television in the United States. August 5 – President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work. August 7 – The Washington Star ceases publication after 128 years.
The following events occurred in August 1958: August 1, 1958 (Friday) ... A Great Day in Harlem would be called “the most iconic photo in jazz history. ...
August 1 – First Barbary War: Action of 1 August 1801 – United States Navy schooner USS Enterprise (1799) captures the 14-gun Tripolitan corsair polacca Tripoli off the north African coast, in a single-ship action. September 9 – Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of the Baltic provinces.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Russian invasion of Ukraine. Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Bombing of Kherson. A civilian is killed and five others are injured by a Russian airstrike on a Kherson hospital.
August 1 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884) August 2 – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, queen consort, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1934) August 10 – Georgi Todorov, Bulgarian general (d. 1934) August 11 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930)