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| August 1st, 2007 (August 01 2007) | Event | The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsed during the evening rush hour. | |
| August 1st, 2007 (August 01 2007) | Death | Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (born in 1932) | |
| August 1st, 1997 (August 01 1997) | Death | Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (born in 1915) | |
| August 1st, 1977 (August 01 1977) | Event | Former Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he was flying in Los Angeles | |
| August 1st, 1977 (August 01 1977) | Birth | Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| August 1st, 1977 (August 01 1977) | Birth | Damien Saez, French musician, songwriter, and author | |
| August 1st, 1977 (August 01 1977) | Death | Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (born in 1929) | |
| August 1st, 1967 (August 01 1967) | Event | Israel annexes East Jerusalem. | |
| August 1st, 1967 (August 01 1967) | Birth | Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player | |
| August 1st, 1967 (August 01 1967) | Death | Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1900) | |
| August 1st, 1957 (August 01 1957) | Event | The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). | |
| August 1st, 1947 (August 01 1947) | Birth | Chris L. Barnard, Welsh footballer | |
| August 1st, 1947 (August 01 1947) | Birth | Dennis Zine, Los Angeles City Councilman | |
| August 1st, 1937 (August 01 1937) | Event | Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor. | |
| August 1st, 1937 (August 01 1937) | Birth | Al D Amato, United States Senator from New York | |
| August 1st, 1927 (August 01 1927) | Event | The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People s Liberation Army. | |
| August 1st, 1927 (August 01 1927) | Birth | Raymond Leppard, English conductor | |
| August 1st, 1917 (August 01 1917) | Death | Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (born in 1879) | |
| August 1st, 1907 (August 01 1907) | Event | First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island. | |
| August 1st, 1837 (August 01 1837) | Birth | Mother Jones, American labor organizer (died in 1930) | |
| August 1st, 1787 (August 01 1787) | Death | Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (born in 1696) | |
| August 1st, 1557 (August 01 1557) | Death | Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (born in 1490) | |
| August 1st, 1457 (August 01 1457) | Death | Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (bc. 1406) | |
| August 1st, 1377 (August 01 1377) | Birth | Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (died in 1433) | |
| August 1st, 1227 (August 01 1227) | Death | Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (born in 1179) | |
| August 1st, 1137 (August 01 1137) | Death | King Louis VI of France (born in 1081) | |
| August 1st, 0607 (August 01 0607) | Event | Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607). | |
| August 1st, 0527 (August 01 0527) | Event | Justinian I becomes the only ruler of the Byzantine Empire. | |
| August 1st, 0527 (August 01 0527) | Death | Emperor Justin I (born in c. 450) | |
