How Many Days Until August 1?

This day in history: August 1

1. 1946

   Several days of anti-Jewish rioting began in Bratislava, instigated by former Slovak partisans opposed to the restitution of Jewish property after the Holocaust in Slovakia.

2. 1971

   The Concert for Bangladesh, a pair of benefit concerts organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar for refugees of the Bangladesh genocide, took place at Madison Square Garden in New York.

3. 1981

   "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles became the first music video broadcast on the American cable television network MTV.

4. 1984

   Commercial peat cutters discovered a preserved bog body, now known as Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss in Cheshire, England.

5. 1991

   U.S. president George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev warning against independence from the Soviet Union.

6. 2007

   Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, United States, suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145 others.

7. 2009

   A shooting at a branch of the Israeli LGBT organization the Aguda in Tel Aviv resulted in two deaths.

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