1st » First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise 1799 6 Action of 1 August 1801 captures the Tripolitan polacca 'Tripoli' in a list of single-ship actions single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
Famous Birthdays on August in 1801
21st » Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian and politician (d. 1876)
28th » Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1877)