Historical Events In August - 01

1910  On this day in history mahomed Nissar, cricketer (pioneer Indian opening bowler in Tests)  

1911  Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point on August - 01.  

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

1911  Konrad Duden, German linguist (Das, grosse Duden Lexicon), dies on this day in history.  

1912  Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist on August - 01.  

1913  On August - 01 jerome Moross, Brooklyn NY, composer (Frankie & Johnny)  

1914  Germany declares war on Russia in WW I on this day in history.  

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

1914  On August - 01 british fleet reaches Scapa Flow  

1914  Jack Delano, composer on this day in history.  

1915  On this day in history ronald MacDonald, British major-general  

1916  Hawaii National Park established on August - 01.  

1916  On this day in history hawaii National Park forms  

1916  On August - 01 viscount Hanworth, barrister  

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

1917  On August - 01 frank Little, IWW organizer is lynched in Butte, Montana  

1917  On this day in history 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 on August - 01.  

1917  Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert on August - 01.  

1918  On this day in history british troops enter Vladivostok  

1918  On this day in history wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist  

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

1919  Stanley Middleton, novelist on this day in history.  

1920  On August - 01 papendrecht soccer team forms  

1920  On this day in history jeffrey Segal, actor (Traitors)/playwright  

1920  Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies on August - 01.  

1921  Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert on August - 01.  

1922  On August - 01 hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard  

1922  On this day in history arthur Hill, Saskatchewan Canada, actor (Owen Marshall, Glitter)  

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

1923  Pres Harding dies at Palace Hotel, SF on this day in history.  

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  On August - 01 battles between Druzen & French in Damascus  

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1313  On this day in history birth of emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)  

1322  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)  

1555  On August - 01 birth of edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)  

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

0527  On August - 01 justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies  

1137  Louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37) on this day in history.  

1190  Floris III, Count of Holland, dies on August - 01.  

1227  Death of Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179) on August - 01.  

1402  Death of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341) on August - 01.  

1457  On August - 01 laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50  

1464  Death of Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386) on this day in history.  

1541  Death of Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493) on this day in history.