August 1st, 1626

Born on August 1st, 1626

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 146,000 days old!

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What happened on August 1st?

August 1st, 2009

A shooting at a branch of the Israeli LGBT organization the Aguda in Tel Aviv resulted in two deaths.

August 1st, 2007

Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, United States, suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed (aftermath pictured), killing 13 people and injuring 145 others.

August 1st, 2004

Nearly 400 people died in a supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, when exits were locked to prevent people from stealing merchandise.

August 1st, 1991

U.S. president George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev warning against independence from the Soviet Union.

August 1st, 1984

Commercial peat cutters discovered a preserved bog body, now known as Lindow Man (head pictured), at Lindow Moss in Cheshire, England.

August 1st, 1981

"Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles became the first music video broadcast on the American cable television network MTV.

August 1st, 1971

The Concert for Bangladesh, a pair of benefit concerts organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar for refugees of the Bangladesh genocide, took place at Madison Square Garden in New York.

August 1st, 1946

Several days of anti-Jewish rioting began in Bratislava, instigated by former Slovak partisans opposed to the restitution of Jewish property after the Holocaust in Slovakia.

August 1st, 1911

Harriet Quimby became the first woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator certificate.

August 1st, 1892

Jef Denyn hosted the world's first carillon concert at St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium.

August 1st, 1876

Colorado was admitted as the 38th U.S. state.

August 1st, 1842

Three days of rioting erupted after a parade in Philadelphia, celebrating the end of slavery in the West Indies, was attacked by a mob.

August 1st, 1814

Britain celebrated a Grand Jubilee to mark 100 years since the accession of George I and 16 years since the start of the Battle of the Nile.

August 1st, 1801

First Barbary War: USS Enterprise, an American schooner, captured the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of Libya.

August 1st, 1798

French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile, between a British fleet commanded by Horatio Nelson and a French fleet under François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, began at Aboukir Bay off the Egyptian coast.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 1st

Same year
Born in 1626

71

Francesco Redi

Italian entomologist and poet

*February 18th, 1626, Arezzo †March 1st, 1697, Pisa

71

John Aubrey

English writer and antiquarian (1626-1697)

*March 12th, 1626, Malmesbury †June 7th, 1697, Oxford

62

Christina of Sweden

Queen of Sweden, ruled from 1632 until abdication in 1654 (1626–1689)

*December 18th, 1626, Stockholm †April 19th, 1689, Rome

85

Richard Cromwell

English politician (1626–1712)

*October 4th, 1626, Huntingdon †July 12th, 1712, Cheshunt

63

Giovanni Legrenzi

Italian composer (1626–1690)

*August 12th, 1626, Clusone †May 27th, 1690, Venice

68

Jean Talon

First Intendant of New France

*January 8th, 1626, Châlons-en-Champagne †November 23rd, 1694, France

60

Josua Arnd

German historian and theologian (1626-1687)

*September 9th, 1626, Güstrow †April 5th, 1687, Güstrow

75

Louis Hennepin

Belgian explorer and missionary (1626-1704)

*May 12th, 1626, Ath †December 5th, 1701, Rome

55

Sigmund von Birken

German poet (1626-1681)

*April 25th, 1626, Skalná †June 12th, 1681, Nuremberg

58

Géraud de Cordemoy

French historian, philosopher and lawyer

*October 6th, 1626, Paris †October 8th, 1684, Paris

44

Leopold Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden-Baden

German noble (1626-1671)

*September 16th, 1626, Baden-Baden †March 1st, 1671, Baden-Baden

44

Richard Ottley

English politician (1626-1670)

*August 5th, 1626, Pitchford Hall †August 10th, 1670

47

Johann Andreas Bose

*June 27th, 1626, Leipzig †April 29th, 1674, Jena

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 1st

Fixed holidays (Emancipation Day is commemorated in many parts of the former British Empire, which marks the day the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into effect which abolished chattel slavery in the British Empire, Christian feast day, The beginning of autumn observances in the Northern hemisphere and spring observances in the Southern hemisphere) which are celebrated on August 1st.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1626 is a normal year and no leap year.

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