Historical Events In August - 01

1910  Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (pioneer Indian opening bowler in Tests) on August - 01.   

1911  Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point on this day in history.   

1911  Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician on this day in history.   

1911  On August - 01 konrad Duden, German linguist (Das, grosse Duden Lexicon), dies   

1912  On August - 01 brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist   

1913  Jerome Moross, Brooklyn NY, composer (Frankie & Johnny) on this day in history.   

1914  On August - 01 germany declares war on Russia in WW I   

1914  On August - 01 germany declares war on the Soviet Union, Italy declares itself neutral.   

1914  On this day in history british fleet reaches Scapa Flow   

1914  Jack Delano, composer on this day in history.   

1915  Ronald MacDonald, British major-general on this day in history.   

1916  Hawaii National Park established on August - 01.   

1916  Hawaii National Park forms on this day in history.   

1916  On August - 01 viscount Hanworth, barrister   

1916  Claude Newberry, S Afr cricket All-rounder (v England 1913-14), dies on August - 01.   

1917  Frank Little, IWW organizer is lynched in Butte, Montana on August - 01.   

1917  Start of Third Battle of Ypres - Australian soldiers in action at Menin Road, Glencorse Wood, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde Ridge and Passchendaele on this day in history.   

1917  Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT on August - 01.   

1917  On this day in history benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert   

1918  British troops enter Vladivostok on August - 01.   

1918  On August - 01 wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist   

1919  Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam on August - 01.   

1919  On August - 01 stanley Middleton, novelist   

1920  Papendrecht soccer team forms on August - 01.   

1920  Jeffrey Segal, actor (Traitors)/playwright on this day in history.   

1920  Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies on this day in history.   

1921  On this day in history benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert   

1922  On this day in history hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard   

1922  Arthur Hill, Saskatchewan Canada, actor (Owen Marshall, Glitter) on this day in history.   

1922  On this day in history vaclav Juda Novotny, composer, dies at 72   

1923  On August - 01 pres Harding dies at Palace Hotel, SF   

1925  On August - 01 shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk & Netherland East-Indies   

1925  On August - 01 john Pieter Veth, painter/lithographer/etcher/writer, dies at 61   

1926  Battles between Druzen & French in Damascus on August - 01.   

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1313  On August - 01 birth of emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)   

1322  On August - 01 birth of peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian   

1377  Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433) was born on this day in history.   

1495  Jan Scorel, Dutch painter/architect was born on August - 01.   

1520  On August - 01 birth of sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland (1548-72)   

1545  Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622) was born on August - 01.   

1555  Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597) was born on this day in history.   

1579  On this day in history birth of luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)   

0527  On this day in history justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies   

1137  On August - 01 louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37)   

1190  Floris III, Count of Holland, dies on this day in history.   

1227  Death of Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179) on this day in history.   

1402  Death of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341) on this day in history.   

1457  Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50 on August - 01.   

1464  On this day in history death of cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)   

1541  On this day in history death of simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)