Unix Timestamp: 996624000
Wednesday, August 1. 2001, 12:00:00 AM UTC

The death toll from floods in northwestern Pakistan exceeds 1,000. //www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10832166 (BBC) //english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/08/20108113833370619.html (Aljazeera) //www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/01-Aug-2010/Flood-toll-nears-900-as-cholera-emerges-in-KP ("The Nation")

The Convention on Cluster Munitions banning the use, production and transfer of cluster bombs in some countries, comes into effect. //www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iQZuxYYQyqbWw8iAzAo_-GwYR_8A (AFP) //www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-10829976 (BBC) //english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/08/20108161921618518.html (Aljazeera)

North Korea says a South Korean fishing boat it seized illegally entered its waters. //english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2009/08/01/95/0401000000AEN20090801001500315F.HTML (Yonhap) //news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8179465.stm (BBC)

Several restrictions remain as the International Olympic Committee and Chinese organisers BOCOG claim they have lifted all Internet restrictions for media covering the Beijing Games. //www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4441127.ece ("The Times") //afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gI4coLNu9o-2CJUDgz4NeqaxIf5A (AFP via Google News)

A total solar eclipse is visible from northern Canada (Nunavut), Greenland, central Russia, eastern Kazakhstan, western Mongolia and China. //afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j4f6CQ9oO6WrC1-OoYGUWtCy2L5g (AFP via Google News)

2008 Summer Olympics:

The remains of the RMS Titanic's Unknown Child, initially identified as Eino Viljami Panula, are re-identified by a Canadian research team and found to be those of another young passenger, Sidney Leslie Goodwin. //www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291639,00.html (AP via FOX)

King Fahd of Saudi Arabia died at the hospital because of pneumonia and a high fever.

A truck bomb destroys a military hospital in Mozdok in Southern Russia, near Chechnya, killing 41 and wounding at least 76. The Russian government blames the attack on Chechen separatists. A media spokesman for rebel political leader, Aslan Maskhadov, denied any connection with the incident. //www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13500-2003Aug1.html

A suicide bomber rams a truck filled with explosives into a military hospital near Chechnya, killing 50 people, including Russian troops wounded in Chechnya.

Israel agrees to participate in the Madrid Conference of 1991, which is held in October.

The National Assembly of Bulgaria elects Zhelyu Zhelev as the first non-Communist President of Bulgaria in 40 years.

Australian banks are deregulated.

America West Airlines begins operations out of Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada.

Attempted coup against government of Daniel Arap Moi in Kenya.

MTV (Music Television) is launched on cable television in the United States.

The Helsinki Accords, which officially recognize Europe's national borders and respect for human rights, are signed in Finland.

Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) inaugurated.

U.S. Senator Thomas Eagleton, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, withdraws from the race after revealing he was once treated for mental illness.

Dictator Idi Amin declares that Uganda will expel 50,000 Asians with British passports to Britain within 3 months.

A huge solar flare (one of the largest ever recorded) knocks out cable lines in U.S. It begins with the appearance of sunspots on August 2 an August 4 flare kicks off high levels of activity until August 10.

Arthur Bremer is jailed for 63 years for shooting George Wallace.

In New York City, 40,000 attend the Concert for Bangladesh.

Race riots in the United States spread to Washington, D.C..

Cigarette advertising is banned on British television.

The Six Flags over Texas theme park officially opens to the public.

Dahomey, now known as Benin, becomes independent from France.

The last Tom and Jerry episode ("Tot Watchers") made by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera is released. Tom and Jerry will not be released to theatres again until 1961.

The First Indochina War ends with the Viet Minh in Vietnam, the Khmer Issarak in Cambodia and the Pathet Lao in Laos emerging victorious against the French Army and the Viet Minh is reorganised into the Viet Cong.

The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.

WWII: The Warsaw Uprising begins.

Operation Tidal Wave: 177 B-24 Liberator bombers from the U.S. Army Air Force bomb oil refineries at Ploieşti, Romania.

The first Jeep is produced.

WWII: British submarine is sunk.

The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, and mark the first live television coverage of a sports event in world history. Note that John Logie Baird had previously broadcast the Derby horse race in Britain in 1931.

The Blue Eagle emblem of the National Recovery Administration is displayed publicly for the first time.

The Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army is formed during the Nanchang Uprising.

Béla Kun's Soviet Republic collapses in Hungary.

British anti-Bolshevik forces occupy Archangel, Russia.

France orders general mobilization.

Germany declares war on Russia's ally, France.

German troops occupy Luxembourg in accordance with its Schlieffen Plan.

Marcus Garvey founds the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Jamaica.

A secret treaty between Turkey and Germany secures Turkish neutrality.

At 7:00 pm (local time) Germany issues a 12-hour ultimatum to Belgium to allow German passage into France.

New York Stock Exchange closed due to war in Europe, where nearly all stock exchanges were already closed.

Germany declares war on Russia, following Russia's military mobilization in support of Serbia Germany also begins mobilization.

The First World War begins.

At 7:00 am (local time) Belgium declines to accept Germany's ultimatum of August 2.

August 9 ndash Robert Baden-Powell leads the first Scout c on Brownsea Island, England.

100 miners die in a pit explosion in Wollongong, Australia.

War is declared between the Qing Empire of China and the Empire of Japan, over their rival claims of influence on their common ally, the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. The event marks the start of the first Sino-Japanese War.

Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.

The Elgin Watch Company is founded in Elgin, Illinois.

First ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.

Virginia closes its Reform Constitutional Convention deciding that all white men have the right to vote.

Slavery is abolished in the British Empire by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833).

Separate Topographical Bureau of the US War Department.

Battle of the Nile (near Abu Qir): Lord Nelson defeats the French navy under Admiral Brueys Nelson himself is wounded in the head.

Caroline Herschel discovers a comet (the first discovered by a woman).

The fleet of French explorer Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse leaves Paris for the circumnavigation of the globe.

The element oxygen is discovered for the third (and last) time ndash the second quantitatively following the somewhat earlier work of Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1771–1772) ndash by Joseph Priestley, who publishes the fact in 1775 and so names the element and usually gets all the credit.

July 21 in Julian Calendar) ndash Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) ndash Battle of Kagul: Russian commander Pyotr Rumyantsev routs 150,000 Turks.

Battle of Minden: Anglo–Hanoverian forces under Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French army of the Duc de Broglie, but due to the disobedience of the English cavalry commander Lord George Sackville, the French are able to withdraw unmolested.

The wearing of the kilt is banned in Scotland by the Dress Act (Note: the actual effective date of the Dress Act was August 1, 1747, not 1746 ndash see the text at Dress Act).

The song "Rule, Britannia!" is first performed at Cliveden, the country home of Frederick, Prince of Wales.ref name=Cassell's Chronology

The Comet of 1729, possibly the largest comet on record, was discovered by Nicolas Sarabat.

George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain.

Battle of Saint Gotthard: The Ottoman Empire is defeated by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.

Eighty Years\\' War: Ernst Casimir of Nassau-Dietz retakes Oldenzaal, forcing Spain to withdraw from Overijssel.

Ottoman conquest of Cyprus is concluded by the surrender of Famagusta. Cyprus is established as an Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire and the first Turkish colony moves into the island.

Columbus discovers the mouth of the Orinoco.

Pope Nicholas IV confirms the independence of San Marino via papal bull.

The Habsburgs acquire the Swiss city of Lucerne.

Sancho IV of Castile captures Tarifa from the Moors.

According to tradition, the Swiss Confederation is formed by Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden, the three forest cantons, at Rütli by the Federal Charter.

All glassmakers in Venice are forced to move to the island of Murano in order to contain the risk of fire, thus establishing the glass industry there.

King Andrew III of Hungary gives royal town privileges to Bratislava, the present-day capital of Slovakia.

Klenová Castle is constructed in southern Bohemia as part of a frontier defense system.

December ndash The twelve Eleanor crosses are erected between Lincolnshire and London in England as King Edward I mourns the death of his queen consort Eleanor of Castile.

The country of Wallachia is founded (traditional date).

Arthur of Brittany is captured in Mirabeau, north of Poitiers, during a battle with John of England.

Holy Roman Empire renounces any claims on the territory of Rome.

August ndash Bohemond I of Antioch is captured by the Danishmends at the Battle of Melitene, leaving Tancred as regent of the Principality of Antioch for two years.

A Genoese fleets leaves Italy to support the Crusaders' effort to conquer the coastal cities, the ships reach Latakia on September 25.

Battle of Gaoliang River: The Liao Dynasty defeats Song Dynasty forces near present-day Beijing.

Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army.

The island of Majorca is conquered by the Caliph of Córdoba.

Prince Shotoku of Japan appoints Ono no Imoko as official envoy to Sui and sends him to pay tribute to the Sui court (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).

King Cerdic of Wessex and his son Cynric defeat the Britons at "Cerdicesleah" (modern Chearsley).

Justinian I appoints Belisarius to command the Eastern army in Armenia and on the Byzantine-Persian frontier.

The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, is rebuilt until 565. Restoring the architectural tone of the basilica.

Justinian I reorganises the command structure of the Byzantine army and fields a small but highly trained army.

Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, formally adopts Buddhism as a state religion (approximate date).

Aescwine becomes the first king of Essex (approximate date).

The Kingdom of Essex is founded by the Saxons who land north of the Thames. They take control of the land between what is now London and St Albans.

Iwai Rebellion: A revolt against the Yamato court breaks out in Tsukushi Province (This according to "Nihon Shoki").

Justin I, age 77, dies at Constantinople and is succeeded by Justinian I who becomes sole emperor.

German warbands cross over to join the revolt and attack the fortress at Mainz.

In Gallia Belgica "cohors II Tungrorum", raised from the inhabitants of Atuatuca Tungrorum in the north-west of the Ardennes Forest revolt against the Romans.

The Batavians attack Roman forts on the Rhine frontier Fectio and Traiectum (modern Utrecht) are destroyed.

The Danubian legions of Raetia and Moesia proclaims Vespasian as emperor.

Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.