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, 2024 is the 214th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Thursday.
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
- 527 –Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
- 607 –Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
- 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.
- 1834 –Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
- 1944 –The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
- 1957 –The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
- 1975 –CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
- 1984 –Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England.
- 1993 –The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
Who were born on August 1?
- 1871 –John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
- 1894 –Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
- 1921 –Jack Kramer, American tennis player (d. 2009)
- 1933 –Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian (d. 2007)
- 1940 –Mervyn Kitchen, Former Somerset cricketer and cricket international umpire
- 1952 –Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
- 1962 –Jacob Matlala, South African boxer
- 1976 –Cristian Stoica, Romanian-born Italian rugby player
- 1986 –Anton Stralman, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1989 –Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player
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