1907<\/strong> – The U.S. Army established an aeronautical division that later became the U.S. Air Force.<\/p>\n 1914<\/strong> – Germany declared war on Russia at the beginning of World War I.<\/p>\n 1936<\/strong> – Adolf Hitler presided over the Olympic games as they opened in Berlin.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> – In the Solomon Islands, the U.S. Navy patrol torpedo boat\u00a0PT-109<\/i>\u00a0sank after being hit by the Japanese destroyer\u00a0Amagiri<\/i>. The boat was under the command of Lt. John F. Kennedy. Eleven of the thirteen crew survived.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – In Warsaw, Poland, an uprising against Nazi occupation began. The revolt continued until October 2 when Polish forces surrendered.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – In the U.S., the Atomic Energy Commission was established.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – The first aluminum-faced building was completed. It was the first of this type in America.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – The Social Security Act was amended to provide benefits to disabled workers aged 50-64 and disabled adult children.<\/p>\n 1957<\/strong> – The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) was created by the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – The movie “American Graffiti” opened.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – The Helsinki accords pledged the signatory nations to respect human rights.<\/p>\n 1976<\/strong> – The Seattle Seahawks played their first (preseason) game. The Seahawks lost 27-20 to San Francisco.<\/p>\n 1978<\/strong> – Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) ended his streak of hitting in 44 consecutive games.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – John McEnroe and Tatum O’Neal were married.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Bert Blyleven (Minnesota Twins) became only the 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters in his career.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ” opened.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – Reggie Jackson was admitted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – Westinghouse Electric Corporation announced a deal to buy CBS for $5.4 billion.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The U.S. books and music chain Borders opens its first European outlet with a 40,000-square-foot store on London’s Oxford Street.<\/p>\n 2006<\/strong> – Cuban leader Fidel Castro turned over absolute power when he gave his brother Raul authority while he underwent intestinal surgery.<\/p>\n 2007<\/strong> \u2013 The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145.<\/p>\n 2008<\/strong> \u2013 The Beijing\u2013Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world.<\/p>\n 2008<\/strong> \u2013 Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.<\/p>\n 2017<\/strong> \u2013 A suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan kills 20 people.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> \u2013 Dean Cox, Australian footballer History of 1 August 1907 – The U.S. Army established an aeronautical division that later became the U.S. Air Force. 1914 – Germany declared war on Russia at the beginning of World War I. 1936 – Adolf Hitler presided over the Olympic games as they opened in Berlin. 1943 – In the Solomon Islands, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[820,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-11177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-1-august","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-2Uh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24264,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177\/revisions\/24264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n1981<\/strong> \u2013 Pia Haraldsen, Norwegian journalist and author
\n1981<\/strong> \u2013 Christofer Heimeroth, German footballer
\n1981<\/strong> \u2013 Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
\n1981<\/strong> \u2013 Jamie Jones-Buchanan, English rugby player
\n1982<\/strong> \u2013 Basem Fathi, Jordanian footballer
\n1982<\/strong> \u2013 Montserrat Lombard, English actress, director, and screenwriter
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 Bobby Carpenter, American football player
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 Craig Clarke, New Zealand rugby player
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 Julien Faubert, French footballer
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 David Gervasi, Swiss decathlete
\n1984<\/strong> \u2013 Steve Feak, American game designer
\n1984<\/strong> \u2013 Francesco Gavazzi, Italian cyclist
\n1984<\/strong> \u2013 Brandon Kintzler, American baseball player
\n1984<\/strong> \u2013 Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
\n1985<\/strong> \u2013 Stuart Holden, Scottish-American soccer player
\n1985<\/strong> \u2013 Adam Jones, American baseball player
\n1985<\/strong> \u2013 Cole Kimball, American baseball player
\n1985<\/strong> \u2013 Tendai Mtawarira, South African rugby player
\n1985<\/strong> \u2013 Kris Stadsgaard, Danish footballer
\n1985<\/strong> \u2013 Du\u0161an \u0160vento, Slovak footballer
\n1986<\/strong> \u2013 Damien Allen, English footballer
\n1986<\/strong> \u2013 Anton Str\u00e5lman, Swedish ice hockey player
\n1986<\/strong> \u2013 Andrew Taylor, English footballer
\n1986<\/strong> \u2013 Elena Vesnina, a Russian tennis player
\n1986<\/strong> \u2013 Mike Wallace, American football player
\n1987<\/strong> \u2013 Iago Aspas, Spanish footballer
\n1987<\/strong> \u2013 Karen Carney, English women’s football winger
\n1987<\/strong> \u2013 S\u00e9bastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
\n1987<\/strong> \u2013 Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer
\n1988<\/strong> \u2013 Mustafa Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
\n1988<\/strong> \u2013 Patryk Ma\u0142ecki, Polish footballer
\n1988<\/strong> \u2013 Bodene Thompson, New Zealand rugby league player
\n1989<\/strong> \u2013 Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player
\n1989<\/strong> \u2013 Tiffany Hwang, Korean American singer, songwriter, and actress
\n1990<\/strong> \u2013 Aledmys D\u00edaz, Cuban baseball player
\n1990<\/strong> \u2013 Jean Hugues Gregoire, Mauritian swimmer
\n1990<\/strong> \u2013 Elton Jantjies, South African rugby player
\n1991<\/strong> \u2013 Piotr Malarczyk, Polish footballer
\n1991<\/strong> \u2013 Marco Puntoriere, Italian footballer
\n1992<\/strong> \u2013 Austin Rivers, American basketball player
\n1992<\/strong> \u2013 Mrunal Thakur, Indian actress
\n1993<\/strong> \u2013 \u00c1lex Abrines, Spanish basketball player
\n1993<\/strong> \u2013 Leon Thomas III, American actor, and singer
\n1994<\/strong> \u2013 Sergeal Petersen, South African rugby player
\n1994<\/strong> \u2013 Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer
\n1996<\/strong> \u2013 Katie Boulter, English tennis player
\n2001<\/strong> \u2013 Park Si-Eun, South Korean actress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"