The 1st o August is the 213rd day o the year (214t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 152 days ti come.
Events 1291: Foondin document o Swisserland 1855: Dufourspitze 1876: Banner o Colorado 1960: Banner o Benin 1960: Islamabad 30 BC - Mark Antony commits suicide.
1291 - Offeecial foondin date o Swisserland .
1408 - Christopher Columbus visits present-day Venezuela .
1714 - George I becomes King o Great Breetain .
1747 - Kilts an tartan ar banned efter the seicont Jacobite uprisin.
1759 - Seiven Years' War : Breetish, Hanoverian an Proushie forces defeat the French in the Battle o Minden.
1800 - The Acts o Union o 1800 are signed, tae jyn Ireland wi Great Breetain tae form the Unitit Kinrick .
1834 - Slavery is abolished in the Breetish Empire .
1855 - Charles Hudson becomes the first person tae successfully climb the Dufourspitze , Swisserland 's heichest moontain on the Monte Rosa massif.
1876 - Colorado becomes the 38t state o the Unitit States .
1907 - The first Scout camp is set up on Brownsea Island, Dorset , Ingland .
1914 - Warld War I : Germany declares war on Roushie .
1936 - Stairt o the 1936 Simmer Olympics in Berlin .
1944 - The Warsaw Uprisin stairts.
1944 - Anne Frank writes the last entry in her diary.
1952 - Asgeir Asgeirsson becomes the 2nt Preses o Iceland .
1960 - Dahomey, nou Benin , gains unthirldom frae Fraunce .
1960 - Islamabad is declared the federal caipital o Pakistan .
1968 - Kristján Eldjárn becomes the 3rd Preses o Iceland .
1980 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir becomes the 4t Preses o Iceland ; she is the first democratically-electit female Heid o State.
1980 - A train crash in Coonty Cork , Republic o Ireland , kills 18 fowk.
1996 - Olafur Ragnar Grimsson becomes the 5t Preses o Iceland .
2000 - Moshe Katsav becomes Preses o Israel .
2004 - A fire at a supermercat in Asuncion , Paraguay , kills 396 fowk.
2005 - Abdullah o Saudi Arabie becomes King.
2007 - The I-35W Mississippi River Brig in Minneapolis collapses, killin 13 fowk.
2008 - 11 climbers die in a single day on K2 .
2009 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen becomes Secretary-General o NATO .
2015 - Indie an Bangladesh swap 162 exclaves aroond thair mairch.
2017 - Jacinda Ardern becomes leader o the New Zealand Labour Pairty; she becomesPrime meenister in October.
2017 - Shahid Khaqan Abbasi becomes Prime meenister o Pakistan .
2018 - Violent clashes occur in Harare ower the delay in the declaration o Zimbabwe 's Preses election result.
2019 - A Houthi atteck on a militar parade in Aden , Yemen , kills 32 fowk.
2019 - Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire , Ingland , is evacuatit ower heavy rain damage tae a local dam.
2019 - Jane Dodds o the Leeberal Democrats wins the Brecon an Radnorshire bi-election in Wales , cuttin Conservative UK Prime meenister Boris Johnson 's wirkin majority tae just ane.
2020 - Mair COVID-19 restreections are loosened in Scotland : Edinburgh Castle an Stirlin Castle are permittit tae re-appen, an professional fitbaw resumes.
Births Herman Melville George de Hevesy 10 BC - Claudius , Roman Emperor (d. 54)
126 - Pertinax , Roman Emperor (d. 193)
1520 - Sigismund II Augustus , King o Poland an Grand Duke o Lithuanie (d. 1572)
1838 - Prince Louis, Coont o Trani (d. 1886)
1893 - Alexander o Greece (d. 1920 )
1924 - Abdullah o Saudi Arabie (d. 2015)
1930 - Pierre Bourdieu , French sociologist (d. 2002 )
1936 - Yves Saint Laurent , French fashion designer (d. 2008 )
1945 - Douglas Osheroff , American physicist
1960 - Micheál Martin , Erse politeecian an Taoiseach
1963 - Amber Rudd , Inglis politeecian
1964 - Fiona Hyslop , Scots politeecian
1967 - Clare Adamson , Scots politeecian
Daiths 2009 : Funeral o Corazon Aquino
Halidays Banner o Swisserland
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