Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: August 1
August 1, 2025 is the 213th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Leo is your zodiac sign. Peridot is your modern birthstone. Diamond is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: August 1
- 1203 –Isaac II Angelus, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexius IV Angelus co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
- 1801 –First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
- 1831 –A new London Bridge opens.
- 1838 –Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- 1842 –The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
- 1914 –Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I.
- 1937 –Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution “Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH” to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
- 1960 –Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
- 1993 –The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
- 2004 –A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.
Who were born on August 1?
- 1819 –Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
- 1881 –Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
- 1901 –Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (d. 1925)
- 1925 –Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
- 1930 –Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
- 1942 –Jerry Garcia, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
- 1951 –Pete Mackanin, American baseball player
- 1972 –Devon Hughes, American professional wrestler
- 1974 –Beckie Scott, Canadian cross-country skiing athlete
- 1987 –Rumi Hiiragi, Japanese actress
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