August 1st, 1695

Born on August 1st, 1695

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 120,000 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 1695

77

Martin Sarmiento

Spanish writer

*March 9th, 1695, Villafranca del Bierzo †December 7th, 1772, Madrid

77

William Borlase

English antiquarian, geologist and naturalist

*February 2nd, 1695, Cornwall †August 31st, 1772, Cornwall

55

Mattia Bortoloni

Italian painter (1695-1750)

*March 31st, 1695, Canda †June 9th, 1750, Milan

64

Johann Ludwig Alefeld

German physicist (1695-1760)

*May 19th, 1695, Grünstadt †January 26th, 1760, Giessen

87

Daniel Wilhelm Triller

German writer

*February 10th, 1695, Erfurt †May 22nd, 1782, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

57

Joachim Oporin

German author and theologian (1695-1753)

*September 12th, 1695, Neumünster †September 5th, 1753, Göttingen

75

Louis Charles César Le Tellier

French military commander and Marshal of France (1695-1771)

*July 2nd, 1695, Paris †January 2nd, 1771, Paris

69

José Quer y Martínez

Spanish botanist (1695-1764)

*January 26th, 1695, Perpignan †March 19th, 1764, Madrid

63

Françoise de Graffigny

French writer (1695-1758)

*February 11th, 1695, Nancy †December 12th, 1758, Paris

61

Ami Lullin

Churchman, Protestant, university teacher, bibliophile, collector (1695-1756)

*May 4th, 1695, Geneva †September 9th, 1756, Geneva

82

Johan Arckenholtz

Finnish historian

*February 9th, 1695, Helsinki †July 12th, 1777, Stockholm

73

Christian Seybold

German painter (1695-1768)

*March 19th, 1695, Neuenhain †September 28th, 1768, Vienna

44

Georg Albrecht of Saxe-Weissenfels

German noble, Count of Barby (1695-1739)

*April 19th, 1695, Dessau †June 12th, 1739, Barby

78

Johann Conrad Schlaun

German architect

*June 5th, 1695, Nörde †October 21st, 1773, Münster

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 1695 is a normal year and no leap year.

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