August 1st (1996) was a Thursday. It's the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days left to the end of the year.
Famous Birthdays on August 1 in 1996
» Katie Boulter, English tennis player
» Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer
» Ellona Santiago, Filipino-American singer
August 1st Famous Deaths for 1996
» Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and politician, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
» Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
» Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
» Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (b. 1929)
August 1st Holidays in History
» Armed Forces Day Lebanon known as Armed Forces Day (Lebanon)
» Public holidays in Azerbaijan or Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day (Azerbaijan)
» Christian Calendar of saints e.g Feast Day:
» Abgar V of Edessa (Syriac Orthodox Church known as Syrian Church)
» Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
» Æthelwold of Winchester
» Eusebius of Vercelli
» Exuperius of Bayeux
» Faith, Hope, and Charity
» Felix of Girona
» Liberation of Saint Peter or Peter Apostle in Chains
» Woman with seven sons called The Holy Maccabees
» August 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time (British West Indies):
» Earliest day on which Caribana celebration can fall, celebrated on the first Weekend of August. (Toronto)
» Earliest day on which Emancipation Day can fall, celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Anguilla, the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands)
» Emancipation Day (Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago)
» Earliest day on which Public holidays in the Republic of Ireland or August Bank Holiday can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Ireland)
» Earliest day on which Civic Holiday can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Canada)
» Earliest day on which Public holidays in Iceland or Commerce Day, or 'Frídagur verslunarmanna', can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Iceland)
» Earliest day on which International Beer Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Friday of August.
» Earliest day on which Forgiveness known as International Forgiveness Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday of August.
» Earliest day on which International Friendship Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday of August.
» Earliest day on which Public holidays in Barbados or Kadooment Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August (Barbados)
» Earliest day on which Public holidays in Samoa named Labor Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August (Samoa)
» Emancipation of the slaves by Haile Selassie I. (Rastafari movement)
» National Day, celebrates the independence of Benin from France in 1960.
» Swiss National Day e.g National Day, commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit in 1291.
» Culture of Tonga Public Holidays or Official Birthday and Coronation Day of the King of Tonga (Tonga)
» Feast of the Cross August 1 Procession of the Cross and the beginning of Dormition of the Theotokos Dormition fast Dormition Fast (Eastern Orthodox Church Eastern Orthodoxy)
» List of U.S. states by date of statehood called Statehood Day (Colorado)
» The beginning of autumn observances in the Northern hemisphere and Spring (season) or spring observances in the Southern hemisphere (Wheel of the Year or Neopagan Wheel of the Year):
» Lughnasadh in the Northern hemisphere, Imbolc in the Southern hemisphere; traditionally begins on the eve of August 1. (Gaels, Ireland, Scotland, Neopagans)
» Lammas (England, Scotland, Neopagans)
» Pachamama Raymi (Pachamama Day or Mother Eearth Day).
» The first day of Carnaval del Pueblo (Burgess Park, London, England)