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Historical Events on August 1

  • Christopher Columbus

    1498

    Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.

  • Ottoman Empire

    1664

    Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.

  • Seven Years' War

    1759

    Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.

  • Colorado

    1876

    Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.

  • Josip Broz Tito

    1937

    Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.

  • World War II

    1943

    World War II: Operation Tidal Wave also known as "Black Sunday", was a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian oil fields.

  • Warsaw Uprising

    1944

    World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.

  • Robert McNamara

    1961

    U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.

  • Suicide attack

    2017

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

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