AUG 1: EVENTS: • 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela. • 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. • 1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps. • 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state. • 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea. • 1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement. • 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). • 1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France. • 1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan. • 1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak. • 2008 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering. BIRTHDAYS: • 1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer • 1858 – Gaston Doumergue, French politician, 13th President of France • 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate • 1910 – Mohammad Nissar, Indian cricketer • 1932 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress • 1945 – Douglas Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate • 1952 – Yajurvindra Singh, Indian cricketer • 1955 – Arun Lal, Indian cricketer and sportscaster DEATH ANNIVERSARIES: • 1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian lawyer, journalist, and reformer • 1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bangladeshi−English author IMPORTANT DAYS: • Armed Forces Day (Lebanon) • Armed Forces Day or Anniversary of the Founding of the Peoples Liberation Army (Peoples Republic of China) • Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day (Azerbaijan) • National Day, celebrates the independence of Benin from France in 1960. • National Day, commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit in 1291. • Official Birthday and Coronation Day of the King of Tonga (Tonga) • Statehood Day (Colorado) • The first day of Carnaval del Pueblo (Burgess Park, London, England) • World Scout Scarf Day (International) • Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire, England)
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