Summary of the Day ✨ 1 August (01/08)
Former President Donald Trump faced his third indictment of 2023 for his role in the January 6 Capitol attack, while a devastating suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan claimed 20 lives. In other developments, the world’s fastest commuter rail system began operation in China, eleven mountaineers perished in a K2 disaster, and the I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapsed in Minneapolis during rush hour, killing 13 people.
Historical Events 📜
- 2023: Former US President Donald Trump is indicted for his role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, his third indictment in 2023.
- 2017: A suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan kills 20 people.
- 2008: The Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world.
- 2008: Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth, in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
- 2007: The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145.
- 2004: A supermarket fire kills 424 people and injures 360 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
- 1998: Puntland, an autonomous state in northeastern Somalia, was officially established following a constitutional conference in Garowe, Issims and tribal chiefs agreed to create a self-declared government until Somalia recovered.
- 1993: The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
- 1990: A plane crash in the Karabakh Range kills 46 people.
- 1988: A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England.
- 1984: Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, England.
- 1981: MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles.
- 1980: Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world’s first democratically elected female head of state.
- 1980: A train crash kills 18 people and injures over 170 more in County Cork, Ireland.
- 1976: Niki Lauda has a severe accident that almost claims his life at the German Grand Prix at Nürburgring.
Famous Births 👶
- 2003: Joseph Sua’ali’i, Australian-Samoan rugby league player
- 2002: Alejandro Francés, Spanish footballer
- 2001: Scottie Barnes, American basketball player
- 2001: Park Si-eun, South Korean actress
- 2001: Ben Trbojevic, Australian rugby league player
- 2000: Kim Chaewon, South Korean singer
- 1996: Katie Boulter, British tennis player
- 1995: Madison Cawthorn, American politician
- 1994: Sergeal Petersen, South African rugby player
- 1994: Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer
- 1993: Álex Abrines, Spanish basketball player
- 1993: Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
- 1993: Saleh Gomaa, Egyptian footballer
- 1992: Austin Rivers, American basketball player
- 1992: Mrunal Thakur, Indian actress
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2024: Joyce Brabner, American writer and artist (born 1952)
- 2021: Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Scottish Islamic scholar and writer (born 1930)
- 2021: Jerry Ziesmer, American assistant director, production manager and occasional actor (born 1939)
- 2020: Wilford Brimley, American actor and singer (born 1934)
- 2020: Rickey Dixon, American professional football player (born 1966)
- 2020: Rodney H. Pardey, American poker player (born 1945)
- 2016: Queen Anne of Romania (born 1923)
- 2015: Stephan Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager (born 1968)
- 2015: Cilla Black, English singer and actress (born 1943)
- 2015: Bernard d’Espagnat, French physicist, philosopher, and author (born 1921)
- 2015: Bob Frankford, English-Canadian physician and politician (born 1939)
- 2015: Hong Yuanshuo, Chinese footballer and manager (born 1948)
- 2014: Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager (born 1973)
- 2014: Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian author (born 1974)
- 2014: Charles T. Payne, American soldier (born 1925)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Armed Forces Day (Lebanon)
- Armed Forces Day (China) or Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Liberation Army (People’s Republic of China)
- Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day (Azerbaijan)
- Emancipation Day is commemorated in many parts of the former British Empire, which marks the day the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into effect which abolished chattel slavery in the British Empire:
Emancipation Day is a public holiday in Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago - Christian feast day:
Abgar V of Edessa (Syrian Church) - Christian feast day:
Alphonsus Maria de’ Liguori - Christian feast day:
Æthelwold of Winchester - Christian feast day:
Bernard Võ Văn Duệ (one of Vietnamese Martyrs) - Christian feast day:
Blessed Gerhard Hirschfelder - Christian feast day:
Eusebius of Vercelli - Christian feast day:
Exuperius of Bayeux - Christian feast day:
Felix of Girona - Christian feast day:
Peter Apostle in Chains - Christian feast day:
Procession of the Cross and the beginning of Dormition Fast (Eastern Orthodoxy) - Christian feast day:
The Holy Maccabees