Events1574 -
Guru Ram Das became the Fourth
Sikh Guru/
Master.1590 -
Tokugawa Ieyasu enters
Edo Castle. (Traditional
Japanese date:
August 1, 1590)
1799 - Capture of the entire
Dutch fleet by
British forces under the command of
Sir Ralph Abercromby and
Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the
Second Coalition of the
French Revolutionary Wars.
1800 -
Gabriel Prosser leads a
slave rebellion in
Richmond,
Virginia1813 -
Battle of Kulm:
French forces defeated by
Austrian-
Prussian-
Russian alliance.1813 -
Creek War:
Creek Red Sticks carried out the
Fort Mims Massacre.
1835 -
Melbourne,
Australia is founded.
1836 - The city of
Houston is founded by
Augustus Chapman Allen and
John Kirby Allen1862 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Richmond:
Confederates under
Edmund Kirby Smith rout a
Union army under
General Horatio Wright.1862 -
American Civil War:
Union forces are defeated in
Second Battle of Bull Run.
1873 -
Austrian explorers
Julius von Payer and
Karl Weyprecht discover the
archipelago of
Franz Joseph Land in the
Arctic Sea.
1897 - The town of Ambiky is captured by
France from
Menabe in
Madagascar.
1896 - Eight provinces in the Philippines were declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This included the provinces of
Batangas,
Rizal,
Cavite,
Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby areas.
1909 -
Burgess Shale fossils discovered by
Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1914 -
Battle of Tannenberg.
1918 -
Fanya Kaplan, an
assassin, shoots and seriously injures
Bolshevik leader
Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of
Bolshevik senior official
Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for
Red Terror.
1922 -
Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in
Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("
Turkish War of Independence").
1941 -
World War II:
Siege of Leningrad begins.
1942 -
World War II:
Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
1945 -
Hong Kong is liberated from
Japan by
British Armed Forces.1945 - Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces,
General Douglas MacArthur lands at
Atsugi Air Force Base.
1956 -
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1962 -
Japan conducts a test of the
NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the
war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 - Hotline between
U.S. and
Soviet leaders goes into operation.
1967 -
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first
African American Justice of the
United States Supreme Court.
1974 - A
Belgrade-
Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in
Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1984 -
STS-41-D: The
Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1990 -
Tatarstan declares independence from the
RSFSR.
1999 -
East Timorese vote for independence in a
referendum.
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