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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Aug 1924 | Marcia Mae Jones, American actress and singer (d. 2007) | |||
| 01 Aug 1924 | Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (d. 2015) | |||
| 01 Aug 1924 | Frank Worrell, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1967) | |||
| 01 Aug 1924 | WW2 | The Italian Milizia Volontaria Sicurezza Nazionale (National Security Volunteer Militia) was re-organized as a branch of the military. | ||
| 01 Aug 1924 |
death Sir George Thomas Beilby Died 1 Aug 1924 at age 73 (born 17 Nov 1850). Scottish industrial chemist who developed (1890) the process of manufacturing potassium cyanide (widely used to extract gold from low-grade ore) by passing ammonia over a heated mixture of charcoal and potassium carbonate. Beilby entered the oil-shale industry in 1869 and greatly increased the yield of paraffin and ammonia by introducing the continuous retort. Noting the destruction of metals by ammonia at high temperatures, Beilby researched the flow of solids. He inferred that when a solid is caused to flow, as in polishing, the crystalline surface is broken down to a harder and denser layer. Although much criticized, this theory explained the hardening of metals under cold working and gave valuable stimulus to further research. |
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| 01 Aug 1924 |
birth Georges Charpak Born 1 Aug 1924; died 29 Sep 2010 at age 86. Polish-French physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1992 for his invention and development of subatomic particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber, a breakthrough in the technique for exploring the innermost parts of matter. As particle physicists have focussed their interest on very rare particle interactions, which often reveal the secrets of the inner parts of matter, sometimes only one particle interaction in a billion is the one searched for. Charpak replaced now inadequate photographic methods with modern electronics that connected the detector directly to a computer. |
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| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Aug 1949 | Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch: TV director / film-maker | |||
| 01 Aug 1949 | Primous Fountain, III: Composer | |||
| 01 Aug 1949 | Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Kyrgyzstani politician, 2nd President of Kyrgyzstan | |||
| 01 Aug 1949 | Ray Nettles, American football player (d. 2009) | |||
| 01 Aug 1949 | WW2 | Hiroshi Nemoto arrived at a hot springs resort at Beitou, Taiwan, Republic of China. | ||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Aug 1974 | Kerwin Waldroup: DL (Detroit Lions) | |||
| 01 Aug 1974 | Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr J" Erving to New York Nets | |||
| 01 Aug 1974 | Cher Calvin, Filipino-American journalist | |||
| 01 Aug 1974 | Marek Galiński, Polish cyclist (d. 2014) | |||
| 01 Aug 1974 | Dennis Lawrence, Trinidadian footballer and coach | |||
| 01 Aug 1974 | Beckie Scott, Canadian skier | |||
| 01 Aug 1974 | Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (b. 1898) | |||
| 01 Aug 1974 | Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones. | |||
| 01 Aug 1974 |
Chinese nuclear submarine In 1974, the People's Liberation Army Navy put into service ChangZheng 1, their first nuclear-powered submarine, designed and built in China. Russia had refused to share nuclear propulsion technology with China, so Mao Tse-tung resolved to develop their own nuclear submarine building program. Construction had started by 1968 at Huludao Shipyard, in Liaoning Province. The pressurized-water 90 megawatt reactor provided power for turbo-electric propulsion. The type 091 submarine was launched in 1970, its nuclear reactor was activated in Jul 1971 and it began sea trials the next month. NATO codenamed it a Han class submarine. As China's first-generation design, its performance was generally inferior to American or Russian vessels of the time. It was decommissioned in 2000. |
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| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Aug 1999 | Deimantė Kizalaitė, Lithuanian figure skater | |||
| 01 Aug 1999 | Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bangladeshi−English author (b. 1897) | |||
| 01 Aug 1999 | Ronan Keating scored his first UK No.1 solo single with 'When You Say Nothing At All'. The country song written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz was a hit for Keith Whitley, who took it to the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1988. The song also gave Alison Krauss her first solo top-10 country hit in 1995. | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Aug 2004 | Philip Abelson, American physicist and author (b. 1913) | |||
| 01 Aug 2004 | A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay. | |||
| 01 Aug 2004 | Ashlee Simpson started a five week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Autobiography.' Juvenile feat Soulja Slim were at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Slow Motion.' | |||
| 01 Aug 2004 | Busted scored their fourth UK No.1 single with 'Thunderbirds / 3am.' Taken from the soundtrack of the 2004 film version of the Thunderbirds TV series. | |||
| 01 Aug 2004 |
death Philip Hauge Abelson Died 1 Aug 2004 at age 91 (born 27 Apr 1913). American physical chemist who proposed the gas diffusion process for separating uranium-235 from uranium-238 which was essential to the development of the atomic bomb. In collaboration with the U.S. physicist Edwin M. McMillan, he discovered a new element, later named neptunium, produced by irradiating uranium with neutrons. At the end WW II, his report on the feasibility of building a nuclear-powered submarine gave birth to the U.S. program in that field. In 1946, Abelson returned to the Carnegie Institution and pioneered in utilizing radioactive isotopes. As director of the Geophysics Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution (1953-71), he found amino acids in fossils, and fatty acids in rocks more than 1,000,000,000 years old. |
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| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Aug 2009 | Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933) | |||
| 01 Aug 2009 | Daughtry went to No.1 on the US album charts with 'Leave This Town', the bands second studio album. | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Aug 2014 | Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager (b. 1973) | |||
| 01 Aug 2014 | Jimi Jamison, the lead singer for US rock band Survivor, who sang and co-wrote 'I'm Always Here' the theme tune for hit TV series Baywatch, died aged 63. The band are best known for their 1982 hit 'The Eye of the Tiger' which pre-dated Jamison joining the group. | |||
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