August 1

This page lists news articles and events for August 1.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

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Recurring Events

One-time Events/News

• 1832
  • Event: Start of the Bad Axe Massacre, ending the Black Hawk Indian War
• 1911:
  • Event: Writer Harriet Quimby takes a pilot's test and becomes the first woman to recieve a pilot's license from the Aero Club of America.
• 1914:
  • Event: Germany declares war on Russia. World War I starts.
• 2008:
  • Event/News: Official: US wanted death penalty in anthrax case