August 1st, 1952

Born on August 1st, 1952

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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

Born on August 1st, 1952

50

Zoran Đinđić

Serbian politician (1952−2003)

*August 1st, 1952, Šamac †March 12th, 2003, Belgrade

73

Ulrich Martin Drescher

German economy master and bank teller

*August 1st, 1952, Frankfurt

73

Bruna Lombardi

Brazilian actress

*August 1st, 1952, São Paulo

73

Bob Hiltermann

German deaf actor

*August 1st, 1952, Germany

Same year
Born in 1952

73

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia (1999–2008, 2012–present)

*October 7th, 1952, V.F. Snegiryov Maternity Hospital No.6

74

Larry Elder

American talk radio host and attorney (born 1952)

*April 27th, 1952, Los Angeles

74

Matti Geschonneck

German film director

*May 8th, 1952, Potsdam

73

Joachim Kaps

German actor and voice actor

*November 3rd, 1952, Görlitz

64

Ina-Maria Federowski

German singer (1952-2017)

*September 28th, 1952, Freital †July 13th, 2017, Berlin

49

Douglas Adams

English author and humourist (1952–2001)

*March 11th, 1952, Cambridge †May 11th, 2001, Santa Barbara

73

Knud Arne Jürgensen

Danish music historian

*July 8th, 1952, Copenhagen

74

Wolfgang Kubicki

German politician

*March 3rd, 1952, Brunswick

74

Lorenz-Günther Köstner

German association football player and manager

*January 30th, 1952, Wallenfels

73

Udo Schmuck

German association football player and manager

*October 29th, 1952, Frankenthal

74

Steven Seagal

American actor, martial artist, and film producer

*April 10th, 1952, Lansing

64

Reinhard Häfner

German association football player and manager (1952–2016)

*February 2nd, 1952, Sonneberg †October 24th, 2016, Dresden

74

Hans-Jürgen Irmer

German politician

*February 20th, 1952, Limburg an der Lahn

73

Liam Neeson

Northern Irish actor (born 1952)

*June 7th, 1952, Ballymena

27

Reid Blackburn

American photographer (1952-1980)

*August 11th, 1952, Washington, D.C. †May 18th, 1980, Washington

73

Andreas Aigmüller

German musician

*November 9th, 1952, Magdeburg

73

Orhan Pamuk

Turkish novelist

*June 7th, 1952, Istanbul

73

Mandy Patinkin

American actor and singer

*November 30th, 1952, Chicago

73

John Goodman

American actor

*June 20th, 1952, Affton

73

Duncan Regehr

Canadian writer, artist and actor

*October 5th, 1952, Lethbridge

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.

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Born on August 1st, 1952
Future birthdays

Leap year

Yes: 1952 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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