August 1st, 2017

Born on August 1st, 2017

Weekday

Tuesday

August 1st, 2017 was a Tuesday.

Age

People born on August 1st, 2017 will turn 9 this year (2026), in exactly 59 days .

Zodiac

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Leo (The Lion)

July 23rd, 2017 - August 23rd, 2017

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 3,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 772 days, exactly on July 14th, 2028, people who were born on August 1st, 2017 will be 4,000 days old!

3,228 Days

461 Weeks

106 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

Born on August 1st, 2017: When to retire?

Birth

67 80

Childhood & Education 20 Years

Work 47 Years

Retirement 13 Years

Pension starts in 59 years

Since you are still in education and expected to start to work in 12 years, you would be able to retire 2085 (in 59 years) at the age of 67.

What happened on August 1st, 2017?

August 1st, 2017

A suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan kills 20 people.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attack

What else 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.

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.

Armed Forces Day (Lebanon)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_Day

Armed Forces Day (China) or Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army (People's Republic of China)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLA_Day

Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day (Azerbaijan)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Azerbaijan

Emancipation Day is a public holiday in Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago

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 Empireen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados

Lughnasadh in the Northern hemisphere, Imbolc in the Southern hemisphere; traditionally begins on the eve of August 1. (Gaels, Ireland, Scotland, Neopagans)

The beginning of autumn observances in the Northern hemisphere and spring observances in the Southern hemisphere (Neopagan Wheel of the Year)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lughnasadh

Lammas (England, Scotland, Neopagans)

The beginning of autumn observances in the Northern hemisphere and spring observances in the Southern hemisphere (Neopagan Wheel of the Year)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lammas

Pachamama Raymi (Quechuan in Ecuador and Peru)

The beginning of autumn observances in the Northern hemisphere and spring observances in the Southern hemisphere (Neopagan Wheel of the Year)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachamama_Raymi