August 1 is the 213th (214th in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 152.
Railways
- August 1, 1886 Tarsus-Adana part of Mersin-Tarsus-Adana line was opened with an official ceremony. The flights started on August 4. The total length of the Mersin-Tarsus-Adana line is 66,8 km.
- In the First World War, on August 1, 1919, the construction of the Ankara-Sivas line, 80 km of which was completed with the help of the Military Railways and Ports Directorate construction battalions, continued until the 127th km (Izzettin station).
- 1 August 2003 The 2003-2008 Action Plan, prepared with the support of the European Commission for the harmonization of the TCDD with the European Union acquis, was approved by the Ministry of Transport.
Events
- 1291 – The cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden lay the foundations of Switzerland.
- 1560 – The Scottish Parliament announces that it will no longer recognize the authority of the Pope, thus creating the Scottish Church.
- 1571 – Lala Mustafa Pasha conquered the island of Cyprus, which belonged to the Republic of Venice.
- 1589 - King of France III. Henry was stabbed. The attacker was Jacques Clément, a staunch Catholic priest. Clément died there, while the King died the next day.
- 1619 - The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1773 – Naval Academy (Tersane Hendesehanesi) was opened by the Algerian Hasan Pasha in Istanbul Kasımpaşa.
- 1774 – English chemist Joseph Priestley discovered the oxygen gas (dioxygène, O.2) discovered.
- 1798 – Battle of the Nile: The British Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats the French Navy at Abukir Bay.
- 1834 - Slavery abolished in the British Empire.
- 1840 - Ceride-i Havadis The first issue of the newspaper was published.
- 1876 - Colorado was admitted to the USA as the 38th state.
- 1894 – Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan declares war on China for Korea.
- 1914 - The German Empire declared war on the Russian Empire.
- 1933 – Istanbul University was founded.
- 1936 - The Berlin Olympics were initiated by Adolf Hitler.
- 1941 – The first of the Jeeps (Jeep), a light all-terrain vehicle designed for the US military, is produced.
- 1950 – Turkey applied to NATO.
- 1953 - The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Central African Federation) is established.
- 1958 – Turkish Resistance Organization was established in Cyprus.
- 1963 - Great Britain agreed to grant Malta independence in 1964.
- 1964 – Belgian Congo was renamed Congo DC.
- 1969 – Two young people were killed and about 200 injured in the events that broke out when a group attacked a rally to protest the Sixth Fleet.
- 1975 – At the Helsinki summit, where Albania, the USA and Canada did not participate, the “Human Rights Convention” (Helsinki Final Act) was signed with the participation of 35 countries.
- 1999 – The embargo on British meat was lifted due to the mad cow crisis in Europe.
- 2001 - Israeli scientists announced that they had succeeded in manufacturing heart cells from embryos.
- 2002 – Iraq invited the UN Chief Inspector to Baghdad for inspection after a four-year hiatus.
- 2008 – A 3-storey student dormitory belonging to a private foundation in the Taşkent district of Konya collapsed due to the compression of LPG gas: 18 dead, 27 injured.
- 2014 – Istanbul Convention entered into force.
Births
- 10 BC – Claudius, first Roman Emperor born outside of Italy (d. 54)
- 126 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
- 845 – Sugawara no Michizane, Heian Japanese scholar, poet, and politician (d. 903)
- 980 – Ibn Sina, Persian scientist (d. 1037)
- 1313 – Kōgon is the first Northern Tale during the Nanboku-chō period in Japan (d. 1364)
- 1377 – Go-Komatsu, 100th emperor of Japan in traditional succession (d. 1433)
- 1520 – II. Zygmunt August, King of Poland (d. 1572)
- 1555 – Edward Kelley, English occultist (d. 1597)
- 1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, Ottoman Jewish clergyman and cult leader (d. 1676)
- 1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French naturalist (known for his work on evolution) (d. 1829)
- 1770 – William Clark, American explorer, Native American agent, and lieutenant (d. 1839)
- 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer (d. 1843)
- 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German natural historian, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (d. 1851)
- 1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1847)
- 1819 – Herman Melville, American author (d. 1891)
- 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American politician and minister (d. 1926)
- 1863 Gaston Doumergue, French statesman (d. 1937)
- 1878 – Konstandinos Logotetopoulos, Greek physician and politician (d. 1961)
- 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian Nobel Prize-winning chemist (d. 1966)
- 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1979)
- 1893 – Alexander I, King of Greece (d. 1920)
- 1894 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
- 1905 Helen Sawyer Hogg was an American astronomer (d. 1993)
- 1910 – Gerda Taro, German war correspondent and photographer (d. 1937)
- 1924 – Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (d. 2015)
- 1924 – Cem Atabeyoğlu, Turkish sports writer and manager (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Leila Abashidze, Georgian-Soviet actress, film director and screenwriter (d. 2018)
- 1929 – Hafizullah Amin, second president of the socialist regime in Afghanistan (d. 1979)
- 1930 – Julie Bovasso, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1930 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian communist politician (d. 1996)
- 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
- 1932 – Meir Kahane, Israeli far-right politician (b. 1990)
- 1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, comedian, producer, and director (d. 2009)
- 1936 – William Donald Hamilton, English evolutionary biologist (d. 2000)
- 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
- 1940 – Mahmud Devletabadi, Iranian writer and actor
- 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American musician (d. 1995)
- 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian film actor, voice actor, director and screenwriter
- 1943 – Celal Doğan, Turkish lawyer and politician
- 1944 – Cenk Koray, Turkish TV presenter, actor and newspaper writer (d. 2000)
- 1945 – Vedat Okyar, Turkish football player, sports writer and commentator (d. 2009)
- 1945 – American physicist who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with Douglas Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson, and David Morries Lee
- 1946 – Richard O. Covey, Retired Air Force Officer and American astronaut
- 1948 – Friend Zekai Özger, Turkish poet
- 1948 – Mustafa Kamalak, Turkish lawyer, politician and Chairman of the Felicity Party
- 1949 – Jim Carroll, American author, autobiographer, poet, musician, and punk
- 1949 - Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan
- 1951 – Tommy Bolin, American rock musician and singer (b. 1976)
- 1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
- 1953 – Robert Cray, American blues guitarist and singer
- 1957 – Taylor Negron, American actress, painter, author, and stand-up comedian (b. 1957)
- 1957 – İhsan Özkes, Turkish writer, retired mufti and politician
- 1957 – Sırrı Sakık, Turkish politician of Kurdish descent
- 1959 – Joe Elliott, English musician
- 1963 – Coolio, American Grammy Award-winning rapper and actor
- 1965 – Sam Mendes, English film and theater director
- 1967 – José Padilha, Brazilian screenwriter and filmmaker
- 1968 – Dan Donegan, American musician
- 1970 – Sibel Can, Turkish fantasy music singer
- 1970 – David James, English former footballer and football coach
- 1971 – İdil Üner, Turkish actress
- 1973 – Gregg Berhalter, American football player and manager
- 1974 – Leonardo Jardim, Portuguese coach
- 1974 – Dennis Lawrence, Trinidad and Tobago international football player and manager
- 1976 – Hasan Şaş, Turkish football player
- 1976 – Ibrahim Babangida, Nigerian football player
- 1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, former Nigerian football player
- 1979 – Junior Agogo, former Ghanaian football player (d. 2019)
- 1979 - Jason Momoa, American actor
- 1980 - Mancini, Brazilian football player
- 1980 – Esteban Paredes, Chilean national football player
- 1981 – Christofer Heimeroth, German football player
- 1981 – Stephen Hunt, Irish former football player
- 1982 – Ferhat Kiskanc, German-Turkish football player
- 1983 – Julien Faubert, French national football player
- 1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German former national football player
- 1985 – Dušan Švento, Slovak national football player
- 1987 – Iago Aspas, Spanish football player
- 1987 – Sébastien Pocognoli, Italian-born Belgian football player
- 1988 – Patryk Malecki, Polish national football player
- 1988 – Nemanja Matić, Serbian football player
- 1989 – Tiffany Hwang, American singer
- 1991 – Ani Hoang, Bulgarian singer
- 1992 – Austin Rivers, American professional basketball player
- 1993 – Álex Abrines, Spanish professional basketball player
- 1994 – Domenico Berardi, Italian football player
- 2001 – Park Si-eun, South Korean singer and actress
Deaths
- 30 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (b. 83 BC)
- 527 – Justin I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 450)
- 1137 – VI. Louis, king of France from 1108 until his death (b.
- 1326 – Osman Bey, founder and first Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1258)
- 1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, Florentine banker and politician (b. 1389)
- 1494 – Giovanni Santi, Italian painter (b. 1435)
- 1546 – Pierre Favre, Catholic clergyman of Savoie descent – co-founder of the Jesuit order (d. 1506)
- 1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer and clergyman (b. 1490)
- 1714 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1665)
- 1760 – Adrian Manglard, French painter (b. 1695)
- 1787 – Alfonso de Liguori, Italian lawyer, later bishop, and founded the Redemptorist order (d. 1696)
- 1831 – William Henry Leonard Poe, American sailor and amateur poet (b. 1807)
- 1903 – Calamity Jane, American cowboy, scout, and gunslinger (b. 1853)
- 1905 – Henrik Sjöberg, Swedish athlete and gymnast (b. 1875)
- 1911 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter (b. 1852)
- 1911 – Konrad Duden, German philologist and lexicographer (b. 1829)
- 1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian scholar, jurist, mathematician, philosopher, and nationalist leader (b. 1856)
- 1936 – Louis Blériot, French pilot, inventor, and engineer (b. 1872)
- 1938 – Andrey Bubnov, Bolshevik revolutionary and Left Opposition member, one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution (b. 1883)
- 1938 – John Aasen, American silent film actor (b. 1890)
- 1943 – Lydia Litvyak (Lily), Soviet fighter pilot (b. 1921)
- 1944 – Manuel L. Quezón, leader of the Philippine independence movement and first president of the Philippines (b. 1878)
- 1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-born German biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (b. 1900)
- 1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
- 1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1883)
- 1973 – Walter Ulbricht, German statesman (b. 1893)
- 1977 – Gary Powers, American pilot (pilot of the U-2 spy plane that was shot down over Soviet soil) (b. 1929)
- 1980 – Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1982 – Kemal Zeki Gençosman, Turkish journalist and writer
- 1987 – Pola Negri, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1996 – Tadeusz Reichstein, Swiss chemist and winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1897)
- 1997 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
- 1999 – İrfan Özaydınlı, Turkish soldier and politician (Former Air Force Commander and Minister of Interior) (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Guy Thys, Belgian former football player and manager (b. 1922)
- 2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
- 2004 – Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Ülkü Adatepe, adopted daughter of Atatürk (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Aldo Maldera, Italian former international football player (b. 1953)
- 2013 – Gail Kobe, American actress and director (b. 1931)
- 2014 – Michael Johns, Australian rock singer and composer (b. 1978)
- 2015 – Muzaffer Akgün, Turkish singer and actor (b. 1926)
- 2015 – Stephan Beckenbauer, German football player (b. 1968)
- 2015 – Cilla Black, English singer and television star (b. 1943)
- 2015 – Chiara Pierobon, Italian professional racing cyclist (b. 1993)
- 2016 – Queen Anne of Romania, wife of King Michael I of Romania (b. 1923)
- 2017 – Jeffrey Brotman, American lawyer and businessman (b. 1942)
- 2017 – Mariann Mayberry, American actress (b. 1965)
- 2017 – Eric Zumbrunnen, American editor (b. 1964)
- 2018 – Mary Carlisle, American actress and singer (b. 1914)
- 2018 – Rick Genest, Canadian actor, model and performance artist (b. 1985)
- 2018 – Jan Kirsznik, Polish saxophonist (b. 1934)
- 2018 – Celeste Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (b. 1923)
- 2018 – Umbayee, Indian folk singer and composer (b. 1952)
- 2019 – Munir Al Yafi, Yemeni soldier and politician (b. 1974)
- 2019 – Ian Gibbons, English musician (b. 1952)
- 2019 – DA Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker, director, and writer (b. 1925)
- 2019 – Harley Race, American professional wrestler, manager, and trainer (b. 1943)
- 2020 – Wilford Brimley, American actor and singer (b. 1934)
- 2020 – Julio Diamante, Spanish film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
- 2020 – Pydikondala Manikyala Rao, Indian politician (b. 1961)
- 2020 – Khosrow Sinai, Iranian film director, screenwriter, composer and educator (b. 1941)
- 2021 – Abdulkadir es-Sufi, Scottish Dervish sheikh (b. 1930)
Holidays and special occasions
- Day of Returnees (Circassians)
- World Scout scarf day
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