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Historical Events on August 1

  • Christopher Columbus

    1498

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

  • Battle of Saint Gotthard (1664)

    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.

  • Battle of Minden

    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.

  • Oxygen

    1774

    British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

  • Battle of the Nile

    1798

    French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay): Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.

  • Colorado

    1876

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

  • League of Communists of Croatia

    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.

  • Operation Tidal Wave

    1943

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

  • Afghanistan

    2017

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

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