Top Historical Events That Happened on August 01

1910  Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (pioneer Indian opening bowler in Tests)   

1911  Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point   

1911  Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician   

1911  Konrad Duden, German linguist (Das, grosse Duden Lexicon), dies.   

1912  Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist.   

1913  Jerome Moross, Brooklyn NY, composer (Frankie and Johnny).   

1914  Germany declares war on Russia in WW I.   

1914  Germany declares war on the Soviet Union, Italy declares itself neutral.   

1914  British fleet reaches Scapa Flow   

1914  Jack Delano, composer   

1915  Ronald MacDonald, British major-general   

1916  Hawaii National Park established   

1916  Hawaii National Park forms   

1916  Viscount Hanworth, barrister.   

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

1917  Frank Little, IWW organizer is lynched in Butte, Montana.   

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

1917  Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT.   

1917  Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert   

1918  British troops enter Vladivostok   

1918  Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist.   

1919  Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam.   

1919  Stanley Middleton, novelist   

1920  Papendrecht soccer team forms.   

1920  Jeffrey Segal, actor (Traitors)/playwright   

1920  Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies   

1922  Hendrikus Colijn is recorded as becoming political editor-in-chief of The Standard   

1922  Arthur Hill, Saskatchewan Canada, actor (Owen Marshall, Glitter)   

1922  Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer, dies at 72   

1923  Pres Harding dies at Palace Hotel, SF   

1925  Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk and Netherland East-Indies   

1925  John Pieter Veth, painter/lithographer/etcher/writer, dies at 61.   

1926  Battles between Druzen and French in Damascus.   

1926  Israel Zangwill, British zionists writer (Ghetto tragedies), dies   

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1313  Emperor kogon of japan: Emperor kogon of japan (d. 1364)   

1322  Peter van herenthals: South netherlands theologist/church historian   

1377  Emperor go-komatsu of japan: Emperor go-komatsu of japan (d. 1433)   

1495  Jan scorel: Dutch painter/architect   

1520  Sigismund ii augustus: King of poland (1548-72)   

1545  Andrew melville: Scottish theologian and religious reformer   

1555  Edward kelley: English spirit medium   

1579  Luís vélez de guevara: Spanish writer   

0527  Death of Justinus i: Byzantine emperor (518-27),   

1137  Death of Louis vi: King of france,   

1190  Death of Floris iii: Count of holland,   

1227  Shimazu tadahisa: Japanese warlord (b. 1179)   

1402  Death of Edmund of langley: 1st duke of york, son of edward iii of england (b. 1341)   

1457  Death of Laurentius valla: Italian philosopher (voluptate),   

1464  Cosimo de' medici: Ruler of florence (b. 1386)   

1541  Death of Simon grynaeus: German theologian (b. 1493)