Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 1

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 * 527 – Upon the death of Justin I, his nephew and adopted son Justinian I became the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
 * 1714 – George Louis, Elector of Hanover, became King George I of Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era.
 * 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.
 * 1801 – First Barbary War: USS Enterprise (1799), an American schooner, captured the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of Libya.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 1981 – "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles became the first music video broadcast on the American cable television network MTV.
 * 1984 – Commercial peat cutters discovered a preserved bog body, now known as Lindow Man (head pictured), at Lindow Moss in Cheshire, England.
 * 1991 – U.S. president George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev warning against independence from the Soviet Union.
 * 2004 – Nearly 400 people died in a supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, when exits were locked to prevent people from stealing merchandise.
 * 2007 – Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145 others.
 * 2009 – A shooting at a branch of the Israeli LGBT organization the Aguda in Tel Aviv resulted in two deaths.
 * Born/died this day: |Pertinax |b|126| Æthelwold of Winchester |d|984| Adhemar of Le Puy |d|1098|Andrew Melville |b|1545| John Lester |b|1871| Helen Sawyer Hogg |b|1905| Alan Moore |b|1914| Frances Farmer |d|1970| Doris Fleeson |d|1970| Lolita Lebrón |d|2010

August 1: Lughnasadh in the Northern Hemisphere; Buwan ng Wika begins in the Philippines; PLA Day in China (1927)


 * 30 BC – War of Actium: Octavian defeated the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra at Alexandria, establishing Roman Egypt.
 * 902 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Led by Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, Aghlabid forces captured the Byzantine stronghold of Taormina, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
 * 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley (pictured) liberated oxygen gas, corroborating the discovery of the element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
 * 1892 – Belgian carillonneur Jef Denyn hosted the world's first carillon concert at St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen.
 * 1911 – Harriet Quimby became the first woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator certificate.