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what is happening on the 1st august?
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Something to do with whiffey being a mod?
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August 1st ..
1976 - Trinidad & Tobago become an independent republic.
1975 - In Britain, cigarette advertising is banned on TV.
1969 - The US spacecraft Mariner begins beaming pictures of the surface of Mars back to Earth.
1963 - Britain announces that the Island of Malta in the Mediteranean will gain its' independence in May 1964.
1962 - Ghana President Kwame Nkrumah escapes as assassination attempt when a grenade explodes nearby.
1961 - Spiderman makes his debut.
1944 - World War II: Start of the Warsaw uprising in Poland against the German occupation forces.
1939 - Glenn Miller records 'In The Mood'.
1936 - Adolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin.
1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes Reichfurhrer following the death of President Hindenberg.
1914 - Ahead of the outbreak of World War I, Germany declares war on Russia.
1903 - During a congress in London the Russian Social Democratic Party splits into the Mensheviks led by Georgi Plecharov and the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
1876 - Colorado becomes the 38th state of the United States.
1873 - World's first cable car system opens in San Francisco.
1834 - British Empire abolishes slavery.
1831 - Opening of London Bridge.
1798 - A British fleet, commanded by Lord Horatio Nelson, defeats the French fleet at Aboukir Bay in the Battle of the Nilet.
1793 - France becomes the first country to introduce a metric system for weights and measures.
1774 - English chemist and Presbyterian Minister Joseph Priestley identifies a new gas- calling its a 'new species of air' - later called oxygen.
1714 - Elector of Hanover, George Louis, is named King George I of Great Britain following the death of Queen Anne in line with the Act of Settlement signed in 1701.
1492 - Explorer Christopher Columbus reaches the American mainland and names it Santa Isla,
1976 - Trinidad & Tobago become an independent republic.
1975 - In Britain, cigarette advertising is banned on TV.
1969 - The US spacecraft Mariner begins beaming pictures of the surface of Mars back to Earth.
1963 - Britain announces that the Island of Malta in the Mediteranean will gain its' independence in May 1964.
1962 - Ghana President Kwame Nkrumah escapes as assassination attempt when a grenade explodes nearby.
1961 - Spiderman makes his debut.
1944 - World War II: Start of the Warsaw uprising in Poland against the German occupation forces.
1939 - Glenn Miller records 'In The Mood'.
1936 - Adolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin.
1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes Reichfurhrer following the death of President Hindenberg.
1914 - Ahead of the outbreak of World War I, Germany declares war on Russia.
1903 - During a congress in London the Russian Social Democratic Party splits into the Mensheviks led by Georgi Plecharov and the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
1876 - Colorado becomes the 38th state of the United States.
1873 - World's first cable car system opens in San Francisco.
1834 - British Empire abolishes slavery.
1831 - Opening of London Bridge.
1798 - A British fleet, commanded by Lord Horatio Nelson, defeats the French fleet at Aboukir Bay in the Battle of the Nilet.
1793 - France becomes the first country to introduce a metric system for weights and measures.
1774 - English chemist and Presbyterian Minister Joseph Priestley identifies a new gas- calling its a 'new species of air' - later called oxygen.
1714 - Elector of Hanover, George Louis, is named King George I of Great Britain following the death of Queen Anne in line with the Act of Settlement signed in 1701.
1492 - Explorer Christopher Columbus reaches the American mainland and names it Santa Isla,
