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1999  Detroit area teachers begin a nine-day strike, postponing the inaugural day of school for 170000 students   

2005  A crowd crush on the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad results in the deaths of several hundred civilians (see Baghdad bridge stampede)   

2006  Edvard Munch paintings The Scream and Madonna are recovered in a police raid in Oslo, Norway.   

2012  Researchers successfully perform the inaugural implantation of an early prototype bionic eye with 24 electrodes   

2012  Armenia severs diplomatic relations with Hungary, following the extradition to Azerbaijan and subsequent pardoning of Ramil Safarov, who was convicted of killing an Armenian soldier in Hungary in 2004. The move is also met with fierce criticism from other countries   

2017  International Organization for Migration states 18500 Rohingya Muslims have fled from violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state after 110 deaths, making for Bangladesh   

2017  Indicationss Neanderthals were the inaugural to make glue out of tar strengthened by research published in "Scientific Reports"   

2018  19-year old Indonesian boy rescued after 49 days afloat when his floating fish trap became adrift.   

2021  36-year old Cristiano Ronaldo is confirmed as a Manchester United player for a second time when his transfer from Juventus is ratified; Ronaldo left United in 2009 to join Real Madrid.   

2023  Johannesburg building fire: 77 people are killed and more than 85 are injured in a fire in a building that had been taken over by gangs who rented it out to squatters.September 1 - Singaporean presidential election: Economist and former deputy prime minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is elected president with a vote share of over 70%.   

2024  A helicopter crashed in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, killing all 22 occupants onboard.   

2025  An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan results in the deaths of over 2200 people and injures 3500.   

2025  Between 370 and 1000 people are reported killed in a landslide caused by heavy rain that buries the village of Tarasin in the Marrah Mountains of Central Darfur and leaves one survivor   

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1569  Djehangir/jahangir: Great mogol of india   

1602  Amalia: Countess of solms-braunfels, wife of gov frederik hendrik   

1663  Guillaume amontons: French physicist   

1696  Johann paul kunzen: Composer   

1721  George hervey: 2nd earl of bristol, british statesman   

1741  Johann paul aegidius martini: Composer   

1741  Husein gradaščević: Bosniak general   

1748  Jean-etienne despreaux: Composer   

0651  Saint aidan of lindisfarne: Irish bishop and missionary   

0683  Pacal ii ruler of the maya polity of palenque: Pacal ii ruler of the maya polity of palenque   

1056  Theodora: Byzantine empress (b. 981)   

1057  Leofric: Count of mercia/husband of lady godiva,   

1158  Sancho iii: King of castile,   

1218  Al-malik ab-adil/saphadin/saif al-din): Brother of saladin,   

1234  Emperor go-horikawa of japan: Emperor go-horikawa of japan (b. 1212)   

1372  Ralph stafford: 1st earl of stafford, english soldier (b. 1301)