What happend on 1st August

31.07
02.08
2005

Disneyland Resort Line of the Hong Kong MTR opens to public.

2005

German spelling reform of 1996 to be formally implemented

2004

A supermarket fire kills 215 people and injures 300 in Asunción, Paraguay.

2001

An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia.

1996

Olympic Games: Michael Johnson wins the 200 meters in 19.32 seconds, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.

1994

Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumors that they had married eleven weeks earlier.

1988

Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.

1981

First broadcasts by MTV. The first video played was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.

1977

Frank H.T. Rhodes is elected President of Cornell University, a post he would hold for 18 years.

1971

George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York City features, among others, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Leon Russell.