August 1 ⇒Back
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607 - ★Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China.
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1291 - ▼The Swiss Confederation is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
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1769 - ▲British colonial administrator Sir Francis Bernard is expelled (US).
His uncompromising policies and harsh tactics in Massachusetts angers the colonists and are instrumental in the building of broad-based opposition within the province to the rule of Parliament in the events leading to the American Revolution.
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1924 - ◆"Koshien Stadium" opens near "Kobe ", Japan.
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1936 - ◆Hitler opens the 11th Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.
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1936 - ◆Unit 731 is officially established (Japan).
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The number 731 was probably determined in commemoration of the Tokyo's winning of the 1940 Olympic bid. In fact the winning was announced the day before on July 31, 1936, (the seventh month the thirty-first day).
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1941 - ▼"Roosevelt" announced an embargo on the export of oil and aviation fuel to "Japan".
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1944 - ◆Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
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1944 - ◆Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
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1993 - ★Torrential rain reaches 405 mm in one day in Kyushu, Japan.
The death toll reaches 23 persons in the central parts of Kagoshima Prefecture.
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2007 - ★The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge collapses.
The bridge was spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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The date of this accident was the pun on the dates of rain disasters in Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan.
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June 19, 1993
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★Heavy rains and debris kill 72 in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
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August 1, 1993
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★Torrential rain reaches 405 mm in one day in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
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June 19, 2007
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★The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge collapses.
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Gregorian
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August 1, 2007
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2009 - ▲A settlement is reached in UBS tax case.
(US time) July 31, 2009
(Japan time) August 1, 2009
August 1 ⇒Back
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August 31, 642 - ▼"Empress Kogyoku" does a rainmaking successfully.
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According to the Nihon Shoki (The Chronicles of Japan), on July 25, 642, Buddhist monks were ordered to do a rain-making ritual, but in vain. On the other hand, when Empress Kogyoku did a rainmaking on August 31, it suddenly began to rain heavily, continuing to rain for five days.
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August 30, 1590 – ★Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle.
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September 1, 1864 - ◆"Oryo" and "Sakamoto Ryoma" get married.
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September 1, 1864 - ◆(birth) Akashi Motojiro, a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
Akashi's tactics was very unique.
He pretended to be stupid and funny among foreign diplomats.
Though he could understand several foreign languages almost completely, he pretended not to understand the foreigners' conversation. Then some foreign diplomats inadvertently spoke important issues among themselves. It was a typical Japanese conspiracy.
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September 20, 1865 - ★"Oryo" and "Sakamoto Ryoma" get married.
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September 5, 1918 – ★Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia.
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August 30, 1962 - ▼The YS11, a turboprop airliner, first flies.
YS11 was Japan's first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
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August 30, 1962 - ▼(birth) Alexander Litvinenko, Russian KGB officer.
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September 14, 2004 - ◆Mamoru Takuma is executed by hanging at Osaka Prison.
He committed mass murder of 8 people and wounded 15 others in the 2001 Osaka school massacre.
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September 22, 2006 - ▲A study group on protection of children submits a report.
External Experts Study Group on Protection of Children from Harmful Effects
of Virtual Society, 2006 is established by the National Police Agency on April 10, 2006.
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September 22, 2006 - ▲A prototype Transrapid Maglev train crashes.
The accident occurs on elevated track in Emsland, Germany, killing 23 people and severely injuring 10.
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September 22, 2006 - ▲The U.S. military officially retires the F-14 Tomcat.
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