August 1st, 2009

Born on August 1st, 2009

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on August 1st, 2009?

August 1st, 2009

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv_gay_centre_shooting

What else happened on August 1st?

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 2009

17

Julia Butters

American actress

*April 15th, 2009, Los Angeles

17

Walker Scobell

American actor

*January 5th, 2009, Virginia Beach

16

Marius De Saeger

Belgian actor

*September 28th, 2009, City of Brussels

17

Lou Goossens

Belgian actor

*February 24th, 2009, Opdorp

16

Owen Cooper

English actor (born 2009)

*December 5th, 2009, Warrington

16

Willis Gibson

Tetris player from Oklahoma

*November 30th, 2009, Stillwater

17

Count Henrik of Monpezat

Danish former prince; son of Prince Joachim and Princess Marie of Denmark

*May 4th, 2009, Rigshospitalet

16

Kim Kang-hoon

South Korean actor

*June 7th, 2009, Cheongju

17

Shin Rin-ah

South Korean actress

*May 14th, 2009, Seoul

16

Samaya Clark Gabriel

American basketball player

*October 1st, 2009, Brooklyn

16

Heo Yool

South Korean actress

*August 26th, 2009, South Korea

17

Claudia Scheunemann

Indonesian footballer (born 2009)

*April 24th, 2009, Tangerang

16

Kler Çaku

Albanian chess player

*November 30th, 2009, Shkodër

16

Leanne Bautista

Filipino child actress

*October 14th, 2009, Philippines

16

Alihan Türkdemir

Turkish actor

*June 29th, 2009, Istanbul

16

Fairooj Labiba

Bangladeshi singer

*June 13th, 2009, Khulna

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

Born on August 1st, 2009
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 2009 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
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